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.

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

Beyond the Ice Palace II is quite the relic. The first game came out in 1988 on our beloved Speccy, the Commodore 64, Alan Sugar’s turdbox plus the Amiga and the Atari ST. Published by Elite Systems, formerly Richard Wilcox Software, they’ll be more familiar to contemporary gamers due to […]

Beyond the Ice Palace II – PS5 Review

March 22, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged broken / elite systems / ice palace / shitroidvania / storybird / the thing that should not be by Ian

From dev noobzilla and publisher Silesia Games comes the latest in a genre we’d never previously been particularly aware of, let alone interested in. Cats and Seek: Dino Park follows on from the previous in the series, that being Cats and Seek: Osaka. Silesia have published a lot of hidden […]

Cats and Seek: Dino Park – PS4 Review

March 11, 2025 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dinosaurs / meow meow meow / noobzilla / polska / silesia by Ian

From developer Gameloft’s Australian studio, publisher Netflix Games and Houghton Mifflin comes a revival of a series only peripherally familiar to us over here in the UK, that being Carmen Sandiego. The first game in the long running series was originally released on formats of the time in 1985 as […]

Carmen Sandiego – PS5 Review

March 4, 2025 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged carmen sandiego / edutainment / gameloft / netflix by Ian

Techno Banter almost put us off at the first juncture because of the name alone. Banter. It’s such an insipid word. Used to excuse all kinds of boorish behaviour by awful knuckle dragging idiots. Bullying if you ask us. Thankfully it’s just a name as it turns out that Techno […]

Techno Banter – PS5 Review

March 4, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged berlin techno / bouncer off neighbours / club life / techno banter / thanks chris by Ian

From Munich-based developer Aesir Interactive, comes the next in the loosely connected simulator games by publisher Nacon , the last being Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator. In this case, it’s Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator. So ferrying people around in rather more urgent circumstances. Only rather than in a […]

Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator – PS5 Review

February 14, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged aesir / ambulance / nacon / paramedic / we're going on a bughunt by Ian

From Liverpool-based work-for-hire developer Wushu Studios and publisher Rebellion comes the latest installment in the Sniper Elite series, subtitled Resistance. It is set in early June 1944, alongside the events of 2022’s Sniper Elite 5. While long-time fans might be expecting Sniper Elite 6 this is the next best thing. […]

Sniper Elite: Resistance – PS5 Review

January 31, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged breakin' 2: electric boogaloo / harry hawker / listen very carefully I shall say this only once / maquis / sniper elite / wesley by Ian