Tropico 5 – Games Asylum

Out this week: Overwatch, TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan, Dungeons II, Lumo and more

Itâ€™s fair to say people held off buying DOOM on launch day due to the lack of reviews. The open beta didnâ€™t entirely fill gamers with confidence either. Overwatch is another that didnâ€™t receive pre-launch reviews, yet that seemingly didnâ€™t stop gamers from coughing up cash beforehand. The...

UK chart – top three unchanged

With just one new game out last week, itâ€™s no surprise to find that this weekâ€™s UK chart lies dormant. That new release was Tropico 5 on PS4, which managed to enter at #18 in the top 40 and #7 in the PS4 chart. Mortal Kombat X is...

Out this week: Shovel Knight, Tropico 5, Assassinâ€™s Creed Chronicles: China, Happy Wars and more

Itâ€™s another quiet week for retail releases. Ignoring a â€˜Xbox Classicsâ€™ re-release of LEGO Lord of the Rings on Xbox 360, thereâ€™s just one new physical release – city building sim Tropico 5 on PS4. It originally due out months ago but you can rest assured that itâ€™s...

The games of January

After the barrage of new releases that October and November routinely bring, the release schedules tend not to clutter again until around Easter. Thatâ€™s not to say that the first few months of a new year are always void of major releases though – this January alone has...

Tropico 5 – Review

The Tropico series can easily be compared to EA’s FIFA. Each update adds a handful of new features and has a spot of fine tuning under the hood, but these improvements alone arenâ€™t enough to prevent more than a passing resemblance to its predecessor. Sim City went leaps...

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Annual chart battle between Call of Duty and FIFA begins

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is, unsurprisingly, the UKâ€™s new number one. It had a better first week than Call of Duty: Ghosts, but still has to settle for becoming the 5th biggest launch in the series. We should bear in mind here though that Advanced Warfare launched...

Out this week: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Ultimate NES Remix, Tropico 5 and more

Very few publishers are willing to go up against the juggernaut that is Call of Duty, and as such this weekâ€™s new release line-up is filled with a bunch of odds and sods. If youâ€™ll excuse that expression. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is in fact the only...