Richie

About Richie

Rich is the editor of PlayStation Country. He likes his games lemony and low-budget with a lot of charm. This isn't his photo. That'll be Rik Mayall.

In the same way that Mad Catz had the third-party controller market sewn up for in previous generations, when we think of audio headsets for gaming, we generally think of Turtle Beach. This US-based has been pushing out gaming hardware since 2005 but really came to prominence when the Xbox […]

Turtle Beach Atlas 200 Headset – Hardware Review

September 10, 2025 in Hardware / Reviews tagged atlas 200 / hardware / headset / turtle beach by Richie

9 Lives to Defend is the latest auto-shooting rogue-lite to hit PSN following its release on Steam over a year ago and it comes to us by way of solo developer Goldarait Games (Felipe Cecato). By now you’ll know the formula. You’re put in an arena, of sorts, and tasked with […]

9 Lives to Defend – PS5 Review

September 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged 9 lives to defend / auto-shooter / cats / rogue-lite / survivors by Richie

Overpowered 1 – Mars Infestation might be marketed as a ‘survival shooter’ and looks as though it’s the latest entry into PSN’s growing list of Vampire Survivors clones but this is actually a twin-stick shooter. You know, those things we used to get tons of before the auto-shooting rogue-likes took over the […]

Overpowered 1 – Mars Infestation

September 6, 2025 in PS5 by Richie

While classic retro gaming often focuses on shooting things or jumping on platforms, the act of avoiding rocks in tunnels was pretty popular in the 1980s. Namco’s classic Dig Dug is the obvious example, while us real ones might prefer Mr. Do but every single format back then had some sort of […]

BOULDER DASH 40th Anniversary – PS5 Review

August 29, 2025 in PS5 tagged boulder dash / dig dug / gravity / mr. do / retro by Richie

Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol 1 is, as the name very much suggests, a compilation of games originally published by legendary developer Toaplan and it includes eight of their most beloved shoot ’em ups, ported over by Swedish studio Bitwave AB. Before we get into the eight shoot ’em ups offered here, […]

Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol 1 – PS5 Review

August 13, 2025 in PS5 tagged compilation / retro / taoplan / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Maiden Cops is a proper old-school scrolling beat ’em up and it comes to us from indie developers Pippin Games. And while this two-man studio are Brazilian, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were absolutely Japanese when playing this game. Set in Maiden City, a place where everyone is female and […]

Maiden Cops – PS5 Review

August 12, 2025 in PS5 tagged anime / Beat em up / japanese / maiden cops / retro by Richie

Achilles: Survivor is a rogue-lite/auto-battler type of game and it comes to us from Polish programmers Dark Point Games. It’s the follow up to Achilles: Legends Untold, a tough little souls-like RPG, and while it sports a very similar look, this takes the series into a Vampire Survivors direction. That means that […]

Achilles: Survivor – PS5 Review

August 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged achilles / rogue-lite / survivor / survivors-like by Richie

Time Flies is a puzzle game from Swiss-based developers Playable and it’s quite unlike anything we’ve played before. The game sees you playing as a fly that has to try to complete a list of goals in its meagre lifespan before it dies. But if that sounds like a bad premise […]

Time Flies – PS5 Review

July 31, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged playables / puzzle game / retro / time flies by Richie

Perhaps the biggest no-brainer in gaming was when Activision commissioned the remaster of the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games back in 2020 (WAIT! It was FIVE YEARS AGO?!). Two of the most-loved games of all-time lovingly recreated for modern audiences. It was a big success and while it wasn’t perfect, […]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 – PS5 Review

July 21, 2025 in PS5 tagged extreme sports / skating / tony hawk's pro skater by Richie

Stunt Flyer is, as you might expect, a flying game and it comes to us from Australian studio Torus Games who, when they’re not pumping out licensed kids’ games like PAW Patrol and Ben 10, were responsible for the reasonably decent World War Z. But this game sees them not only going back to their […]

Stunt Flyer – PS5 Review

July 17, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged flying / stunt flyer / stunts / torus games / wii by Richie

Irem Collection Volume 3 is a collection of three arcade shoot ’em ups from Irem, the classic coin-op company. And this one offers up three arcade-perfect ports, as well as a Turbografix/PC Engine one, and they’re all shoot ’em ups, which is a running theme for these collections so far. As […]

Irem Collection Volume 3 – PS5 Review

July 9, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / compilation / irem collection volume 3 / shoot em up by Richie

Exo-Calibre is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from London-based one-man studio, Vampixel Games. It’s also published by eastasiasoft, one of many shoot ’em ups they’ve put out. And this one is pretty typical of the genre and gives you pretty much exactly what you’d expect at this price point. Set across […]

Exo-Calibre – PS5 Review

July 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged eastasiasoft / exo-calibre / vampixel / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie