Oh biscuits! Given Bluey’s meteoric rise since the show’s television debut in 2018, it seemed inevitable that a video game adaptation would eventually make its way into the hands of eager fans worldwide. Thanks to developer Artax Games and publisher Outright, that adaptation is now here, with Bluey: The Videogame letting you directly control each…
Void out. While the Evercade family of systems is home to a wide range of cartridge collections packed with retro games, we’re now seeing ‘native’ titles which have been designed from the ground up to work on the Evercade hardware rather than via emulation. Full Void is perhaps the most high-profile of these yet (it…
The premise of Slay the Princess is immediately intriguing. You’re a hero seeking a captive princess, but as the title suggests, you’re told you must kill her, not rescue her, or else she’ll end the world. She seems like a normal young woman—are you being deceived into committing a cruel murder, or is she truly…
The Simpsons Hit & Run—a GTA-style send-up that somehow managed to be actually pretty dang good—came out in 2003 to some stirring commercial success. I have some fond memories of romping around Springfield as an accident-prone Homer, and while I’m certainly not alone, the game never had a sequel. Turns out, it very nearly had…
Tracking down the three Essence of Aether samples is one of the many missions you’ll find yourself undertaking in Act Two of Modern Warfare 3‘s zombie mode. While the game does give you a location name where you can find each sample, that’s not much to go on in a map as expansive as the…
There’s not much to see of ‘C64 – The Mysterious Cassette’. Allister Brimble, the composer behind a bunch of classic soundtracks including the various Alien Breed titles, has just contributed some original music for a brand-new release for the Commodore Amiga. The confusingly-titled C64 – The Mysterious Cassette is a text adventure game developed by…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Multiplayer has been out in the world for a couple weeks, and we are thrilled to see that it has come with a great sentiment from the Call of Duty community, who have responded particularly well to the more fluid movement system and the modernized return of the 16…
The competition meant that they had to innovate, and with that came unique peripherals, transparent coloured shells and a plethora of unique gaming experiences throughout the 90’s and 2000’s that introduced video game characters that are still around to this day. Nowadays though, it feels like console designs and limited edition variants have far less…
“We were told not to treat McDonald’s burgers with such disrespect”. This year gave us a welcome instance of a major commercial brand doing something fun with a video game when McDonald’s commissioned Grimace’s Birthday for the Game Boy Color. The title – coded by Gumpy Function and Pearacidic – was made with passion and…
Names mean almost everything. November 21st, 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s Japanese launch. To mark this historic Hyrulean occasion, we’ll be running articles throughout the week dedicated to the game, our memories, and its legacy. Today, Gavin ponders the pros and cons of remaking The Citizen Kane…