A combination of Thanksgiving and Black Friday has seemingly made this week a quiet one, with only a handful of new releases arriving on each platform. Next week is looking busier, and we still have Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Nacon’s co-op battler Gangs of Sherwood, and the belated Xbox version of Baldur’s Gate 3 to …
This puzzle platformer involves taking on the role of a nobleman haunted by sad memories. Utilizing a mirror image mechanic, we’re tasked with unraveling his intriguing past, dark secrets and all. While exploring a dilapidated mansion – in which all the reflective surfaces are smashed – a broken mirror shard proves to be invaluable, able …
Indie publisher 663 Games has put pen to paper and revealed Realm of Ink – a promising action Roguelite with a striking ink-painting art style. It also has an intriguing story to tell that’s based around existentialism and the significance of life, with the swordswoman protagonist Red learning that she’s a fictional character in a …
After a successful showing at the 2021 indie games festival in Brazil, where it was a finalist for best children’s game, the solo developed 3D platformer Racco Venture is due to leap onto consoles in December. After a gang known as the Tattooed Armadillos steal a sacred relic, the world of Verta finds itself in …
Yesterday’s Indie World Showcase has made a busy week for the Switch even busier, with the backpack organising adventure Backpack Hero and the tactical turn-based folklore Howl both available now, along the art career shaping Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist and the short point ‘n clicker Enjoy the Diner. A demo for the non-linear visual …
Creating a game based on Detroit City’s crime fighting cyborg is no easy task. An awful lot could potentially go wrong, from the way RoboCop is presented – including his calculated movements and his hardcoded behavioural traits – to the satirical slant of the movie trilogy being somehow lost or misunderstood. Even the setting could fall …
Every so often a game comes along that’s tricky to talk about without fear of spoiling the experience. Bem Feito is a perfect example, and the fact that it only lasts 1-2 hours makes talking about it harder still. Following in the footsteps of Undertale and the more recent Everhood, it essentially presents two different …
Despite middling reviews, with the Metacritic score currently sitting at a lackluster 53%, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III has managed to top all formats top 40, along with the PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series charts. Let’s face it – as one of the biggest names in gaming, it was always going to have impressive …
While there are a good number of big name titles due between now and Christmas, it seems that the majority of publishers have decided upon this week to launch their most prominent winter releases. There’s even new hardware out, with Sony launching the £199.99 PlayStation Portal handheld, allowing PS5 and PS4 games to be remotely …
Brazil-based Seize Studios’ What the Duck – out today on Switch and PC – blends together several genres, with a sprinkling of silliness for good measure. It’s a hack ‘n slash adventure at its core, but also features RPG elements, crafting, four different biomes to explore, and rhythm action mini-games that forge new weapons – …
The first Christmas of the new millennium is just days away, but there’s little in the way of festive cheer within the small European town in which this point ‘n click adventure is set. A virus is raging, forcing a mandatory lockdown. With the townsfolk degenerating into zombie-like beings, panic quickly ensues. Waking chained to …
Hoo boy. The Switch has been flooded with shovelware over the past week – everything from something called (I kid you not) The great battle of Shark Monkey Squirrel Dinossaur Bird Bee to a low budget racer known as Burnout that has nothing to do with EA whatsoever. It even looks like they’ve snuck a …
If a publisher or developer neglects one of their cherished IPs for too long, an indie studio will often swoop in with a spiritual successor. This fan-pleasing phenomenon occurred just months ago, with Bomb Rush Cyberfunk filling in for a new Jet Set Radio. But what happens when a franchise’s original creator returns with a …
It seems many gamers were happy to spend their dollars on RoboCop: Rogue City. The Nacon-published grisly shooter is the highest charting retail release of last week, entering at a respectable #4 in the all formats chart. It also took #2 in the Xbox Series chart, and #3 in the PS5 chart. A few other …
This year’s Call of Duty seems to be riling up the fanbase, with Modern Warfare III‘s file size clocking in at an Xbox Series S debilitating 234.9GB, no Platinum Trophy on PS5, a campaign that lasts under four hours, and intrusive adverts appearing on the Xbox dashboard. IGN wasn’t impressed by the campaign at all, …
