Former Wii U-exclusive ZombiU might be fast approaching three years old, but it’s still one of the finest zombie survival games available. When you consider how many games filled with the festering undead have been released since 2012, that’s quite the compliment. For a launch game in particular it was incredibly ambitious. We’d even go …
A fresh perspective is often the best way to stop a series becoming stagnant, so we were intrigued by what Ubisoft could bring to Signal’s Toy Soldiers franchise. While it’s pleasing to see that they haven’t messed with the winning tabletop tower defence formula, they have bulked it to the brim with licensed add-on packs, …
When morale in a team is low, a proven way to boost spirits is to organize a team building exercise. This is what Rare Replay feels like – a way to rally the troops and remind current Rare employees of just how cherished the studio once was. With the Kinect pretty much dead and buried, …
Published by SEGA and developed by Game Freak – yes, the same Game Freak who gave the world Pokémon – Tembo the Badass Elephant recalls fond memories of the 32-bit era. Specifically, around two or three years into the Saturn’s stunted lifecycle. While Sony was wowing gamers with the kind of stuff that showed off …
If you aren’t already aware, or perhaps unable to tell by the screenshots alone, Q.U.B.E has a lot in common with Valve’s much celebrated Portal. This too is a first-person puzzler which sees a mute protagonist journeying from one white walled testing arena to the next, harnessing the power of a far-flung technology. In this …
Even racers from as far back as the 32-bit era were known to feature car/soccer hybrid mini-games tucked away somewhere on the game disc. We’re pretty sure that one of the Psygnosis PSone racers had one, and we’re even more confident in saying that Monster Truck Madness and Test Drive: Eve of Destruction did as …
The Joker is dead. Just in case your memory needs a jog, Rocksteady’s final entry in the Arkham saga begins with the Joker’s body slowly entering a cremation furnace. An unprovoked twiddle of the analogue stick ignites the fire and as soon as the flames touch his smeared, highly flammable, face paint Batman’s former nemesis …
Nintendo is known for doing things differently, so it should come as no surprise at all to find Splatoon far removed from your typical online shooter. The obvious shake-up is that the weapons the protagonists carry shoot paint instead of hot lead – teams of four complete to coat more ground than the opposition before …
If this JRPG was set in modern day England it would tell the story of a mild mannered 20-something left in charge of a quaint countryside B&B. The kind that costs £125 a night and all breakfast produce is organic. Or allegedly so. Business isn’t exactly booming, and so the new owner has to make …
As we discovered firsthand back in 2013, SteamWorld Dig is a very hard game to fault without sounding petty. This somewhat belated Xbox One version – which appears to be the last iteration out the door, leaving Image & Form to give SteamWorld Heist their full attention – follows suit, with the past two years …
Would you take orders from a talking chalice? You probably would if the survival of an entire nation depended on the powers within said drinking vessel. It also helps that the titular, all-knowing mouthpiece has quite the personality. Two, actually – male and female, both softly spoken and full of dry wit. The chalice is …
It so transpires when escaping from a heavily guarded enemy fortress it’s essential to carry a piece of metal pipe. In the hands of chisel-jawed war hero B.J. Blazkowicz such a simple object becomes an invaluable tool of many uses, from prying open doors and breaking down broken walls to knocking unaware enemy soldiers off …
When it launched in 2013 Undead Labs’ State of Decay was a shining example of just how far the Xbox Live Arcade platform had come. The first batch of XBLA titles were simple affairs that could hardly be classed as system sellers (Hardwood Backgammon, anybody?) but over time the Xbox’s downloadable titles became substantial to …
Goats will eat anything. Although I knew they were partial to the odd baseball cap or whatever else falls into their pen down at the petting zoo, I didn’t believe this for myself until watching one of those American obsessive hoarder documentaries. What set this episode apart from others is that the hoarder’s house was …
Whereas many games will be nearing their conclusion once they hit the ten hour mark, Neverwinter sees only the surfaced scratched. As a fully comprehensive MMORPG – the kind consoles have only received in a butchered state in the past (Defiance and Ascend: Hand of Kul spring to mind) – it was always a given …