Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, Stubbs the Zombie, Can’t Drive This and Root Film hit the Switch

The Switch bears a busy release schedule this month, receiving the usual mixture of belated conversions and intriguing indies. Shame we can’t get excited about any new first-party releases from Nintendo themselves – it’s very quiet on that front.   Conversions turning up tardy on Switch this week include the essentric online shooter Plants vs. …

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Down the game soundtrack rabbit hole

One of the advantages of working from home – due to one thing and another – has been listening to more music than I have done probably since I was a student. Without the Melody Maker to guide me, I’ve had to turn to new sources of inspiration, one of which has been Sound of …

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The forgotten heroes of Xbox

The philosophy of a video game corporation nowadays is that if a game doesn’t prove to be popular, then all support and everything to do with it should be dropped like a hot potato, and attention focused elsewhere. This sort of thinking only started around ten years ago, when budgets for video games began to …

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