Have you ever found a game hard going before realising that you only had yourself to blame? That was my experience with Orbital Bullet for the first hour or so, finding myself in an early grave due to a penchant for power weapons. The likes of the grenade launcher pack a punch, but if you …
If we were gambling men, our money would have gone on Pokémon Scarlet being the more popular of the two new Pokémon adventures. This week’s UK chart proves that we should never be allowed to step foot into Ladbrokes – Pokémon Violet is the UK’s new no.1, with Pokémon Scarlet at #2. The Dual Pack …
If you’re into grisly shooters, this week has you covered. Evil West – not to be confused with Weird West, Hard West, or Will Smith’s Wild Wild West – could be a surprise hit, coming from Flying Wild Hog – creators of Trek to Yomi and Shadow Warrior. It’s a vampire-slaying wild west third-person shooter, …
Here’s a child-tested review for you. In this family-friendly game, horse enthusiasts can catch up with Sofia, Lisa, Sarah, and Hannah at Lakeside Riding Stables. At the outset, you can customize your character and horse before taking on the main story. A tour of the stables, farm, and village let you see the area as …
Fair warning: I am in my early 40s, and Lunistice has hit me right in the nostalgia. For me it’s a lost Saturn game – and the Saturn specifically, for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on. I think it puts me in mind of Sonic R, though I’ve not played that for 25 …
It’s too early to tell if January will be quiet, steady, or strangely busy for new releases but we can at least expect A Space For The Unbound from Mojiken Studio and publisher Chorus Worldwide. This ‘90s set pixel art adventure takes place in a rural Indonesian community. The peace has been disturbed by a …
Two mainline Pokémon games in the same year may sound like overkill, but chances are development overlapped by a good year or so. All signs also point to Scarlet & Violet building upon Pokémon Legends: Arceus to create an open-world experience with more freedom than before. The eight gyms can be tackled in any order, …
Resident Evil games are infamous nowadays for their ranking systems, revealing how well you performed and how much time your playthrough took. If the modern entries were to also reveal the amount of time spent managing the inventory, you would likely be surprised – it takes a degree of skill and experimentation to place and …
This week’s UK retail chart suggests God of War Ragnarok is a colossal commercial success. GamesIndustry.biz dug deep into sales figures, reporting that it had the second biggest launch of the year behind FIFA 23 – meaning launch sales eclipsed Elden Ring, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Chart purveyors GfK also …
The Commodore 64 is one of those rare formats, like the Amiga and Atari ST, where it’s impossible to count how many games were released for it. The 8-bit microcomputer launched in 1982 and was still knocking around in the mid-90s, even gaining conversions of Capcom’s Street Fighter II and Final Fight. Games were released …
Nintendo’s Triforce of winter titles is now complete, with Pokémon Scarlet/Violet joining Bayonetta 3 and Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope on store shelves. Three is the magic number, after all. Pokémon Scarlet/Violet takes us to the Paldea region to conquer eight gyms, capture new critters, and explore a new open-world. Freedom seems to be …
When people think of Atari, the games and systems that spring to mind likely depend on which decade you grew up in. ‘80s kids will recall the company’s coin-munching arcade cabinets and the behemoth that was the Atari 2600 – a system that managed to survive the ’84 market crash, with games released in Europe …
My greatest fear in life – other than physical media vanishing entirely and leaving us in a digital world where we can no longer share or sell things we supposedly own – is playing a simulator with a poor introduction or a barely present tutorial. This fear stems from playing a farming sim circa 2013 …
It’s a pre-Christmas miracle! Word has it not only is Sonic Frontiers pretty good, but it seems the Switch version compares favourably to PS4 and Xbox One versions. We did fear that a zippy open-world game may have been a little too demanding for the Switch, giving us flashbacks of the Balan Wonderworld debacle. Having …
This is not a review of Aquarist. I can’t review Aquarist. Let me explain. You see, I write reviews as a hobby. It’s fun to sample new games, see what’s coming out and use my creative side to craft a review. After an hour or so with FreeMind’s Aquarist, an aquarium management game, I wasn’t …
