“I’m tickled it remains a topic of conversation all these years later”. Mario, as we’re all aware, is one of the most successful and instantly recognisable video game characters of all time. He’s starred in more games than you’ve had hot dinners and, via these escapades, has racked up combined sales of around 400 million…
Fixing what Nintendon’t. Recently whilst twiddling our thumbs waiting for Switch 2 to be announced, we got thinking about the state of the current Switch’s eShop. It’s long been bemoaned for being painfully slow and containing a ‘large shedful’ of shovelware titles. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
With more classics on the way. Two classic PC-88 games — Thexder and Relics — have arrived this month on the Nintendo Switch eShop, via D4 Enterprise and Project EGG. In the past, the Tokyo-based publisher D4 Enterprise has reissued a number of classic games for old Japanese computers like the MSX, PC-88, and PC-98…
Medeival city builder Foundation will exit nearly five years of early access development when it releases on January 31, 2025. To celebrate, the developers have released a free demo that lets you check out the game’s unique gridless playstyle that has you zone areas for your villagers to make their own choices in and forge…
Abiotic Factor is the best survival game I played this year for many reasons, but one of those is how stupefyingly extra Deep Field Games’ Half-Life-inspired adventure is. Its Black Mesa-esque research facility is so much larger and stranger than it needs to be, and that’s before you get all the strange pocket dimensions you…
Showdown of the decade? It’s that time of year again, folks. No, not Christmas, though for many it may well be just as exciting. It’s time for The Game Awards 2023! We’re expecting a genuinely thrilling event in December following what may well have been one of the strongest years in gaming ever, with the…
Unto The End is a challenging combat adventure game, in the style of a cinematic platformer. Gameplay is about mastering our read-react combat system in intense sword fights, spotting opportunities to trade and use items, and ultimately experiencing an adventure that is told through your actions as you make your way back home to your…
From the creator of awesome Commodore 64 games such Battle for Cronos, Deathflood Dungeon of Doom, devolution, and the tribe, comes a new C64 game that blends a bit of micromanagement and city-building, called ‘Rise of Babylon’ by WindigoProductions. A game in which you must achieve the greatest possible population growth in the city of…
Developer Infinity Ward reveals Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 for PlayStation 5, the long-awaited next chapter in the iconic FPS. Witness the unfolding of a new war with global consequences in the gripping single-player Campaign, experience grounded, precise combat in Multiplayer, and drop into the definitive Call of Duty extraction mode with the return…
While Steam Next Fest is happening, it’s always a bit of a whirlwind around here, as we try to play as many demos as possible and pick out the coolest among them. So it’s always nice, once the dust has settled, to look back and see which games really resonated, and what picture it all…