Rogue Aces is a cheery little arcade shooter that comes to us from Infinite State Games who previously brought us the addictive as crack-flavoured Kit Kats dodge ’em up Don’t Die, Mr Robot and is, as the name suggests, an aeroplane-based affair. You play as a pilot in a time […]

Rogue Aces – PS4 Review

You don’t tend to see a lot of console real-time strategy, do you? Even when you do, controllers don’t seem to map nicely to keyboard and mouse so you wind up with something simplified and compromised. There have been rare success stories and Passtech Games are hoping Masters of Anima […]

Masters of Anima – PS4 Review

PSVR is still finding its feet a little and as it does a lot of the games on offer for the platform tend to fall into the wave shooter genre and Time Carnage by Welsh dev crew Wales Interactive is the latest.  This game is VR only and requires dual Move controllers […]

Time Carnage – PSVR Review

If there is anything that Epic Dumpster Bear: Dumpster Fire Redux proves, is that comedy is hard. You can already probably tell by the screenshots, but EDB is an incredibly rudimentary game that is designed around what appears to be store bought Unity assets, assembled into a Super Mario Bros […]

Epic Dumpster Bear: Dumpster Fire Redux

Crisis on the Planet of the Apes VR is a new title for PSVR that lets you play the part of 139, an ape who’s been captured to be experimented on by those evil, evil humans. After a brief tutorial on how to use your two Move controllers you’re led […]

Crisis on the Planet of the Apes VR – PSVR ...

Sir Eatsalot is a 2D platformer/adventure game that is out now exclusively on PS Vita and it features the titular knight as he battles the evil witch Hysterica who has poisoned the kingdom of Gluttington with sour lemonade.  As the name, and screenshots below, suggest, Eatsalot is on the chubby […]

Sir Eatsalot – Vita Review

There’s a moment early on in Far Cry 5 where you are tasked with climbing a tower before being told not worry, you won’t be climbing towers all over the place.  This is a cheeky acceptance that Ubisoft have been putting out very samey games for a while now.  Both within the Far […]

Far Cry 5 – PS4 Review

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I have spoken at length about my feelings on retro aesthetic games from independent developers. Oftentimes they can feel that they try to ape the look of an eight or sixteen-bit title while completely ignoring the shortcomings and quirks that made those decades of gaming feel so appealing. Often, they […]

Minit – PS4 Review

I reviewed the PS4 release of The Witch and the Hundred Knight a couple of years ago. It had the strong visual and audio design you’d expect from a Nippon Ichi title, but with a real time action RPG engine instead of the tactical style fans of Disgaea were used […]

The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 – PS4 Review

Here’s a blast from the past. With Nordic’s slow acquisition of the THQ branding and properties, they’re looking to gain some hearts and minds. Revisiting dormant series’ can be daunting and they’re some cautious steps taken with the release of MX vs ATV All Out. Rainbow have been recalled to […]

MX vs ATV: All Out – PS4 Review

Casing aside their musou sensibilities, 2016’s Attack on Titan saw Omega Force receive praise for their representation of the popular anime. Japanese developers in general have been under a great resurgence and, with that, Western audiences have become more receptive to what they have to offer. With that in mind, […]

Attack on Titan 2 – PS4 Review

In the world of casual puzzle games Artifex Mundi are a prolific developer of hidden object style games.  We’ve reviewed a number of them and Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala is the final entry in one of their better series.  I really enjoyed the earlier games and liked how the story […]

Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala – PS4 Review