Even prior to playing Music Drive it was clear that it offered an arcade-like experience, with it featuring low poly 32-bit era style visuals and a focus on reckless vehicular combat. It’s the kind of game where you only need to look at a screenshot or two to see what you’re in for. However, I …
Horror games were seldom seen on handhelds during the ‘90s, with even Capcom cancelling a Game Boy Color conversion of Resident Evil due to the belief that it would cease to be scary when played on a small screen. Skip forward to 2025, and the humble Switch is on the receiving end of horror games …
Remember the childish antics that made trudging to school less dull? Kicking a can down the street was a popular pursuit, especially if you didn’t own a football. If you found two large cans, you could even crush them so they became stuck on your shoes, mimicking RoboCop as you walked. Crunching dry leaves underfoot …
Have you ever played a game solo and had the impression that you’ve mastered it, only to jump online and discover how it’s really meant to be played? That was my experience with new parkour sim Rooftops & Alleys, believing I had a firm grasp on getting around with style, only to be made a …
When it comes to reviewing new games in the Vampire Survivors inspired auto-shooting genre – which are currently appearing at a rate of 2-3 per week on the digital storefronts – my line of thought is to seek out what makes an entry stand out from the countless others out there. In some cases, the …
Love makes people do crazy things. This is certainly the case for Star Overdrive’s punkish protagonist Bios, who has been cruising through space trying to find the whereabouts of his missing girlfriend Nous – with the two sharing a passion for loud music. After picking up a distress signal, Bios wastes no time in landing …
Coming from Keita Takahashi, the mind behind the Katamari Damacy series, it isn’t much of a surprise to find that ‘to a T’ is imaginative when it comes to both its premise and character design. You play as a teenager permanently stuck in the ‘T pose’ who’s blundering their way through life and school, trying to …
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Vampire Survivors creator poncle should consider themselves so. Keeper’s Toll is brazenly influenced by the highly praised auto-shooter, right down to looking and sounding similar. But while clearly trying to ride the coattails of that game’s success, it not only shows a great understanding of the genre …
Seeking a companion, an old lady strolls down the halls of a cat adoption centre. She coughs and splutters while perusing the cats available, preferring an adult cat to spend her days with rather than a kitten. On the car journey home, the cat meows constantly, and once free of the carrier chooses to hide …
For many gamers who grew up in the ‘90s, Namco’s Ridge Racer represented the start of a new generation. The speedy racer hit arcades in 1993, generating a huge buzz due to featuring texture-mapped polygons. This leap in technology gave us a glimpse into the future of console gaming, with Ridge Racer quickly announced as …
The term ‘working from home’ has gained a new meaning in CyberCorp’s rendition of the future. From the comfort of their apartment, a hacker extraordinaire – referred to as “Agent” – is able to remotely control a cybernetic body. Taking the form of a sleek and agile Synth, they’re sent out onto the neon-lit streets …
Even though born into a world filled with magic and monsters, blue haired bounty hunter Hariku is inexplicably startled by the discovery of a talking owl, found locked in a cage deep inside a forgotten shrine. Quickly forming a bond, Hariku and the owl – now christened Owly – set about travelling to a distant …
Here’s a first-person horror that’s dark in both senses of the word. True to its name, the plot involves a deranged doctor performing sadistic experiments on unwilling victims. After waking up following an abduction, one of the first sights is of a fellow captive being sliced in two while still alive, making for a grim …
It’s refreshing to see that in these times of spiralling budgets and lengthy development cycles that id Software still creates their own tech and bespoke engines. This is arguably the ‘secret sauce’ behind modern DOOM, in the way that it allows the long-established studio to create an engine suitable for the experience they want to …
It’s always pleasing to see a developer associated with licensed games gain the opportunity to work on their own IP, giving the chance to flex creative muscle and work outside of a licensed property’s confines. High Voltage Software dabbled with The Conduit and Tournament of Legends in the Wii era, Eurocom created 40 Winks and Sphinx …