I’ll always root for a little guy, especially if there’s a good idea on display. Shieldwall is a tactical battle simulator that uses a comedic set of characters to lighten the mood. Nezon Productions are a very tiny team and it’s unfortunate that this size has produced a game with […]

Shieldwall – PS5 Review

From Kraków-based developer 7Levels comes an official Monsterverse tie-in, in this case Kong: Survivor Instinct. Were it not for the fact that Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire had released in March this year, we’d suspect that it was attempting to hype up a forthcoming film. It does feature several […]

Kong: Survivor Instinct – PS5 Review

Tetris Forever is a digital documentary, a compilation of various Tetris and Tetris-inspired games that tells the history of one of the most important titles in gaming history.  It comes to us by way of Digital Eclipse who have been carving a niche in this sort of gaming history area with what they […]

Tetris Forever – PS5 Review

Irem Collection Volume 2 is a compilation of arcade games from legendary coin-op company Irem who have a history dating back to the ’70s.  This, of course, follows up from Volume 1 which featured three shoot ’em ups (two vertical, one horizontal) but this volume now has a bit of a run-and-gun […]

Irem Collection Volume 2 – PS5 Review

Empire of the Ants is a real-time strategy game from French studio Tower Five and it’s very different to the usual RTS games we get generally.  As the game suggests, you’ll be controlling an army of ants but there’s a lot more going on here. You play as a lone […]

Empire of the Ants – PS5 Review

SlavicPunk: Oldtimer is an action-shooter adventure game from Polish developers Red Square Games and it’s based on a series of books by Michał Gołkowski.  It released on PC back in the Summer of 2023 but now its time for us PSN folk to see what we’ve been missing out on. […]

SlavicPunk: Oldtimer – PS5 Review

Squirrel with a Gun by Deedee Creations and published by Maximum Entertainment is pretty much what you might expect from the title. Quite literally a squirrel with a gun. In effect, it’s an Unreal Engine 5 physics sandbox with you running around making a nuisance of yourself. Think Untitled Goose […]

Squirrel with a Gun – PS5 Review

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Skautfold‘s been a weird series with something of an identity crisis. Each of Pugware’s games so far have settled in a different genre whilst trying to push forward a narrative about the occult, eldritch horror and colonial conflict. Whilst it does propel an air of mystery about the series, the […]

Skautfold: Into the Fray – PS5 Review

AK-xolotl: Together is a new DLC for the original top-town shooter/rogue-like, a game that came out in 2023 and somehow evaded our attention.  It was put together by Brazilian-based coders 2Awesome Studio and came out to a reasonably positive reception.  But now, as the DLC’s title suggests, they’ve added some […]

AK-xolotl: Together – PS5 Review

From Belfast based developer Billy Goat and publisher Secret Mode comes Parcel Corps, best described as an amalgam of two classic Sega games of the Dreamcast era. The games being Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio. You play as a bicycle courier in a cel shaded world with a similar […]

Parcel Corps – PS5 Review

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In this climate of almost everything getting remastered, I was not expecting the Playstation 5 release of Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition to do a whole lot for me. I’d played the first game in the series and, whilst it did well to execute on some pretty obvious inspirations, I ran […]

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition – PS5 Review

Super XYX is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes from indie dev Team Grybanser Fox and is published by eastasiasoft, as so many modern indie shoot ’em ups are.  And it feels very much in keeping with a lot of other eastasiasoft shooters, even if this is the first partnership […]

Super XYX – PS5 Review