Ian

About Ian

Ian likes his games weird. He loves his Vita even if Sony don't anymore. He joined the PS4 party relatively late, but has been in since day one on PS5.

From Void Interactive comes Ready or Not, a SWAT-em-up for want of a better description. Not a Fugees story-based affair then. Tch. After a rather involved tutorial in which you’re shown the commands to subdue, apprehend and restrain suspects, you’re also shown how to queue up actions for your squad. […]

Ready or Not – PS5 Review

July 24, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged acab / lauryn hill / los suenos / pras michel / swat / wyclef jean by Ian

ANTRO comes to us from Barcelona-based developer Gatera Studio, the studio itself being founded in 2022 specifically to develop and release ANTRO. Depending on context, antro can mean cave, den or dive. In this case it’s a mix of the first two. Self-described by Gatera as a rhythmic video game […]

ANTRO – PS5 Review

July 4, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged antro / barcelona / gatera studio / post apocalyptic by Ian

From yer man Keita Takahashi’s studio uvula and publisher Annapurna, we have to a T. The uvula being the fleshy bit at the back of the throat. You play as a thirteen-year-old boy, who’s shaped like a T, across eight episodes of steadily increasing whimsy. Bearing in mind Takahashi’s previous […]

to a T – PS5 Review

June 12, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged keita takahashi / T / uvula by Ian

Another month, another hidden cat game from our pals at Silesia Games, subdeveloped by the excellently named Sleepwalking Potatoes from Rzeszów in southeast Poland. This time the setting is the Wild West and the game is Hidden Cat Outlaws. Something of a departure from the other hidden cat games we’ve […]

Hidden Cat Outlaws – PS5 Review

June 5, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hidden cats / silesia games / the same but different / wiki wiki wah wild wild west by Ian

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is the latest game featuring Eastman and Laird’s 1984 pizza loving reptiles. Owned by Nickelodeon since 2009, this was originally released on Apple Arcade in 2023, then Switch the following year with it being deemed successful enough to release on PS5 as well. We […]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Splintered Fate – PS5 Review

May 31, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Dull / moba moba moba mobile fpsmmaidgaf hd hd dd / roguelike / splintered ip / tepid / tmnt by Ian

Knight’s Night! is the latest release from our friends at eastasiasoft, being a lovely double dip PS4 and PS5 for those who partake in the perceived easy platinum boogie. Us here at PSC, we prefer to judge a game on its own merits, trophies be damned. At first glance you’ll […]

Knight’s Night! – PS5 Review

May 31, 2025 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 1-bit / eastasiasoft / knights night / platformer by Ian

Somewhat bewilderingly, we have the pleasure to review Forza Horizon 5, originally released in 2021 on Xbox and PC Gamepass. Developed by Leamington Spa-based dev Playground Games with porting to PS5 done by Panic Button, this is still published by Xbox Game Studios. Until Phil Spencer navigated Microsoft towards a […]

Forza Horizon 5 – PS5 Review

May 22, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged forza horizon 5 / micrososoft / mitch garver is from new mexico / playground / there's always money in the banana stand / xbox game studio by Ian

From Brazilian boutique developurr Pinel Games and hidden cat publisher extraordinaire Silesia Games comes the latest installment of the interminable cosy game feline onslaught. Much like Cats and Seek: Dino Park, this is a hidden cat game that has you pondering where kittens are hidden. Unlike that, the cats don’t […]

Hidden Kittens – Kingdom of Cats – PS5 Review

May 14, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hidden cats / hidden kittens / pinel games / silesia games by Ian

From Belgian indie Studio Tolima publisher Don’t Nod we have the very cute Koira. We’ve had it for a little while, but due to a bug halting our progress altogether, it rather put the skids on our playthrough. Thankfully a patch solved the problem we were able to revisit Koira […]

Koira – PS5 Review

May 14, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged belgium / don't nod / hunters / maybe the ardennes by Ian

We love Indiana Jones here at PSC. Well, the classic three films before we had to run for our lives from Shia LaBeouf and Mads Mikkelsen in this century’s variable efforts at least. So it was with a little excitement we took notice that Indiana Jones and The Great Circle […]

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle – PS5 Review

May 3, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged egypt / fascisti / indiana jones / machinegames / nazis / not denholm elliott / thailand / tony todd / troy baker by Ian

Atomfall then. The lazy back of the fag packet description could well be Fallout in the Lake District. Only unlike Bethesda’s bloated behemoth that’s currently in GAAS purgatory with Fallout 76, Atomfall is unashamedly British coming from Oxford-based dev and publisher Rebellion. Given their previous with the Sniper Elite games, […]

Atomfall – PS5 Review

April 16, 2025 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged atomfall / hanging on the telephone / in the shadow of the mushroom cloud / no nukes please we're british / oberon / peace sells but who's buying / rebellion / windscale by Ian

From Shanghai based Pollard Studio we have KARMA: The Dark World, a narrative-driven psychological horror game, bringing to mind the film depiction of 1984 in some ways as well as Terry Gilliam’s masterful Brazil. Set in an alternate version of East Germany, you play as Daniel McGovern, a Roam Agent […]

KARMA: The Dark World – PS5 Review

April 10, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cronenberg / dark world / dasein / east germany / horror / karma / pollard by Ian