Reviews of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD are live, and somewhat unsurprisingly, the consensus is that if you missed it before you shouldn’t miss it the second time around. Nintendo has gone to great effort to implement quality-of-life improvements, in hope that it doesn’t divide opinions in the way it did in 2011. …
I came to this arcade-style shooter expecting a sense of dread and despair – the artwork, showing hellish crimson backdrops, focuses on the game’s mechanical arachnoid adversaries. All the more surprising to find that the tone is light-hearted, backed by comic-book style presentation. You play as a baseball cap-wearing dogsbody, tasked with blasting metallic bugs …
1996’s Space Jam movie tie-in was an unofficial spin-off to the legendary NBA Jam, even reusing the engine from the latest iteration. The upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy, the long-time-coming sequel, gains a video game adaptation too – a pixel art scrolling brawler that could have leapt straight from 1996. Yep, we’re in retro …