Yearly Archives: 2020

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival game that has been around for years on the PC where it has a thriving community and a big modding scene. The story seems to be that it was made by a 16 year old Canadian kid using Unity assets (although there is a […]

Unturned – PS4 Review

November 18, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged budget / minecraft / sandbox / unturned / zombies by Richie

As the registered sports bloke, I’m given a lot of sports titles to tinker with. Handball is a new one on me. Coming from EKO Software, Handball 21 takes the top leagues of the European game and looks to bring it to a videogame audience. As a newcomer, I’m interested […]

Handball 21 – PS4 Review

November 17, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged barcelona / eko software / handball 21 / paris saint germain / sports / ultimate team by Mike

From developer Abrakam and publisher Versus Evil comes Faeria: Chronicles of Gagana, to give its full name. When we first got tipped off about Faeria on PS4 prior to reviewing it, we thought it sounded familiar. Sure enough, we’d already snagged it on PC via the Epic Store freebies we’ve […]

Faeria – PS4 Review

November 16, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged abrakam / ccg / faeria / versus evil by Ian

Vera Blanc: Full Moon is the latest from Ratalaika. It’s another visual novel using the same RenPy scripting language we’ve encountered on multiple occasions already. This time it’s from Italian developer Winter Wolves aka Celso Riva. This originally came out in 2010 anyway… Unlike some of the others this is […]

Vera Blanc: Full Moon – PS4 Review

November 14, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged forza italia / ratalaika / visual novel by Ian

The fruitful partnership between Zen and whoever owns the Williams pinball IPs pays off once again with this, the sixth compilation of classic Williams pinball tables for Zen’s magnificent Pinball FX3. This time we get Funhouse (1990), Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray (1990) and, for the first time digitally, Space […]

Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball (Volume 6) – PS4 Review

November 12, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged pinball fx 3 / williams / zen by Richie

It’s been a long while since a new Wipeout has hit a Sony console. Now, at the end of the generation, R8 Games have taken the matter into their own hands. Pacer looks to emulate and pay homage to the feel of the futuristic racer. With imitations like this, they […]

Pacer – PS4 Review

November 11, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged corporations / futuristic combat racing / hovercraft / pacer / ships / time trial / wipeout by Mike

From developer Blacklight Interactive and publisher Team 17, comes Golf With Your Friends. We freely admit that this is our first sight of the game that initially came out in May 2020, reaching us courtesy of Team 17 to publicise the new DLC of three additional courses penned the New […]

Golf With Your Friends – PS4 Review

November 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged blacklight interactive / team17 / the escapists / worms by Ian

We’ve reviewed Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype before. It came out in 2015 but was itself a port of the original 2010 PS3 release. As with the Vita version, this combines the original PS3 game and its DLC but, slightly protracted history aside, the game is a 2D shoot ’em up, very […]

Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype Definitive Edition – PS4 Review

November 8, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / arcade / eastasiasoft / shoot em up / Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype Definitive Edition by Richie

It’s hard to believe how long-running the Dirt series has become. It’s has been spun-off and reinvented more than once but now the series appears to be facing another identity crisis. Dirt 5 lands at the tail-end of the generation and Codemasters have taken a leaner approach. What lands is […]

Dirt 5 – PS4 Review

November 7, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged codemasters / course creator / dirt / off-road racing / online multiplayer / rally raid / sprint cars by Mike

Visual novels just don’t stop coming. It’s not a genre I’m especially enamoured with but it’s been fascinating to see the genre transform over time. After plenty of development time and a successful kickstarter, Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love has finally come to fruition. Mr. Tired Media are mixing […]

Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love – PS4 Review

November 4, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dungeon crawler / Girls / mr tired media / narrively driven / post-apocalypse / rpg / undead darlings no cure for love / visual novel / zombies by Mike

Well, this is different. We’re used to getting wildly varied games from Ratalaika but this one is definitely something entirely new. Essentially, Ord. is a text adventure. Those of you under 30 may have never played one of those before but back in the 8-bit days, it was a pretty popular genre […]

Ord. – PS4 Review

November 4, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged black and white / monochrome / ord / ratalaika / text adventure by Richie

Now that we’re conservatively half a century into videogaming, there aren’t too many original ideas left when it comes to core gameplay mechanics and so the easier option is to try to combine two disparate ones into something relatively new. In the indie gaming world, this usually means trying to […]

Galacide – PS4 Review

October 31, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / galacide / match-three / shoot em up. puzzle by Richie