Miner-cum-platformer SteamWorld Dig – originally released on 3DS in 2013, and on consoles a year later – is a game that gets to the point quickly. Within minutes of booting it up, you find your uncle’s corpse and his trusty pickaxe and descend into the nearby mine to scavenge for gems. It really isn’t interested …
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 …
After a month or so of very little, Image & Form ends the Wii U eShop dry spell with SteamWorld Dig. Although not a new game, its somewhat belated arrival on Wii U is no less welcome. A heady mixture of Metroid, Mr. Driller and Spelunky, we found the 3DS version very hard to fault …
The summer game drought has seemingly spread to the Nintendo eShop – there are only three new arrivals due this Thursday, and one of those is a yet another match-three puzzler. There are some decent eShop discounts however. To celebrate its arrival on Wii U Virtual Console exactly one year ago, legendary SNES RPG Earthbound …
Over the past few months alone we’ve seen the release of two new consoles, revamps of both the PS Vita and 3DS, plus some much needed big-name titles for the Wii U. That’s before we’ve even taken into account the release of GTA V, a game proclaimed to be not just the best game of …
Mining for riches has to be one of the humblest professions known to man. Humble, yet dangerous. Chances of cave-ins, gas leaks, landslides and choking on lumps of gristle in mass-produced Cornish pasties are stacked incredibly high. Logic dictates that any job with a degree of danger has to be ideal for a videogame, although …