Monthly Archives: August 2016

Deceptively simple is how Absolute Drift: Zen Edition describes itself and, if there’s one thing the racing genre tackles in varying degrees, its getting sideways. Its a skill which I’ve never always seen eye-to-eye with but Flippfly are trying to keep it clean and basic whilst offering some potential for […]

Absolute Drift: Zen Edition – PS4 Review

August 29, 2016 in PS4 / Reviews tagged absolute drift / arcade / drifting / driving / zen edition by Mike

For a lot of people, poker gaming started and ended with Texas Hold ‘Em on the Xbox 360. We all got it, we all played it until we were sick of it. Other poker games came and went but they were pointless. There’s nothing more that needs adding to a […]

Prominence Poker – PS4 Review

August 28, 2016 in PS4 tagged cards / free to play / gambling / poker / prominence poker / texas hold 'em by Richie

The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse is a story driven game with an RPG battle system based in the same universe as the Snow White and the Huntsman films. I didn’t realise that at the time but any sort of RPG mechanic? Count me in. You play as Elisabeth as she searches […]

The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse – PS4 Review

August 28, 2016 in PS4 tagged 2d / broken / Huntsman / rpg by Gareth

As PlayStation Country’s resident shoot ’em up fan (ie – I’m the oldest and therefore I actually played the classics in arcades when I was a kid), I’m always happy when a legit shoot ’em up shows up on the PS4. We seem to get lots of twin-stick shooters (such […]

Caladrius Blaze – PS4 Review

August 23, 2016 in PS4 tagged arcade / caladrius blaze / japanese / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Who’s up for some arcade twin-stick business? That’s what’s on offer from Inversus, the brainchild of Ryan Juckett. The Bungie employee is now trying his hand at going solo and his first project looks to deliver some arcade goodness to the PlayStation 4. Is it another Everyday Shooter? In some […]

Inversus – PS4 Review

August 22, 2016 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / colour / inversus / shoot em up / twin stick by Mike

No Man’s Sky was always going to be a case of expectation versus reality. If you have been following for the three or so years since the title first showed its face at the VGX awards, you would probably have been asking yourself whether or not Hello Games could actually […]

No Man’s Sky – PS4 Review

August 18, 2016 in PS4 tagged exploration / Fireball XL5 / No Man's Sky / space by Grizz

Chambara by Team OK (they write it as team ok but that’s simply unacceptable around these parts) is a few things. Firstly, it’s a first-person slash ’em up where you, and some couch-based chums, play as a fat samurai pigeon. Secondly, it’s fundamentally pretty good. Thirdly, it’s a missed opportunity. […]

Chambara – PS4

August 15, 2016 in PS4 tagged Chambara / colours / first person / multiplayer / swords by Richie

Bears Can’t Drift!? is a Mario Kart style racer involving bears and is primarily from a one man team. I still think the original SNES Mario Kart has yet to be beaten for sheer playability so can this new indie game on PS4 come close? Made in Unreal Engine 4’s […]

Bears Can’t Drift!? – PS4 Review

August 14, 2016 in PS4 tagged bears cant drift / driving / kart racer / split screen by Gareth

We’ve said it before, but there are way too many roguelike games out there at the moment. We seem to be reviewing at least one per month and so when Brut@l turned up this week, we weren’t surprised. However, Brut@l isn’t just a roguelike but rather a reenvisioning of the […]

Brut@l – PS4 Review

August 12, 2016 in PS4 tagged brut@l. ascii / hack and slash / rogue / roguelike by Richie

I hate to start off a review with a pet peeve however the advent of couch multiplayer games recently has filled me with nothing but sadness. All to often good, sometimes great games get pushed on the way side because they do not offer an online multi-player mode. As an […]

Overcooked – PS4 Review

August 7, 2016 in PS4 tagged chaos / food / Overcooked / party game / team17 by Grizz

Dungeon Punks is a side scrolling 2D brawler with RPG elements from Hyper Awesome Entertainment. The tag line is ‘tag team brawler RPG’ which may get your mind wandering as to what this might actually entail. That’s what I’m here for. The story isn’t that important although there are talking […]

Dungeon Punks – PS4 Review

August 5, 2016 in PS4 tagged 2d / Dungeon Fighter LIVE / dungeon punks / Golden Axe / hack and slash / rpg by Gareth

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart is a game by Artifex Mundi that has been released on pretty much every platform on the market and now it’s on PS4. A quick bit of research will show Artifex Mundi to be masters of the hidden object style of video game […]

Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart – PS4 Review

August 5, 2016 in PS4 tagged mahjong / museum.. episodic / nightmares of the deep / pirates / point and click by Gareth