Tennis games feel few and far between and it seems like an age since they were truly great. Top Spin might be back on the menu these days but, aside from that, Big Ant Studios appear to be the only studio available to bring a licensed version of the racquet […]

Tiebreak: Official Game of the ATP and WTA – PS5 ...


Valfaris: Mecha Therion is the latest effort from Texan studio Steel Mantis and it follows on from their work with the heavy metal inspired Slain and Valfaris, the former being a hack and slasher while the latter was a run and gunners.  Both of which had an emphasis on chunky pixels, blood, […]

Valfaris: Mecha Therion – PS5 Review


It’s been a long, long while since I’ve ventured into a classic adventure game. It was never really a genre that was on my radar and I prefer my games to be more action packed and visceral. On top of that, I was never a PC gamer when the genre […]

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered – PS4 Review



From Warsaw-based developer Gruby Entertainment and publisher Crunching Koalas comes cyberpunk themed FPS Deadlink. As has become vogue, or de rigeur if you will, it has roguelite elements. The schtick is that you’re the blunt instrument sent by the Corporate Security Agency to keep the megacorps by cracking open a […]

Deadlink – PS5 Review


I do enjoy racing games that focus heavily on self improvement. Give me a marker to beat and I’ll happily bang my head against it for enough time to be annoyed. Coming from Ghosts, Phantom Spark looks to tap into this compulsion and, whilst it really nails the controls and […]

Phantom Spark – PS5 Review


From developer Coal Supper (aka James Carbutt and Will Todd) and publisher Panic, comes game of the moment, Thank Goodness You’re Here! deliberately released on 1st August 2024, to coincide with Yorkshire Day. Superficially similar to Panic’s 2019 hit Untitled Goose Game in terms of the being a miscreant to […]

Thank Goodness You’re Here! – PS5 Review



Arranger is an adventuring puzzle game from Californian/Argentinian studio Furniture and Mattress, a coding super group with credits on games like Guacamelee, Celeste and Braid.  And, unlike a lot of games that we review, this one genuinely has a fairly original core mechanic. You play as Jemma who, after being abandoned as a […]

Arranger – PS5 Review


Tiny Pixels Vol 1 – Ninpo Blast is a ninja-themed vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from the ever-prolific budget publisher eastasiasoft.  As with the vast majority of their shoot ’em ups, this utilises a 16-bit style of presentation to offer up a retro-styled experience. That’s well within eastasiasoft’s wheelhouse.  We’ve reviewed […]

Tiny Pixels Vol 1 – Ninpo Blast


There’s always a question of commerce versus preservation when remastered are involved. There will always be technical reasons why a game sees a re-release but how long does it to take before the classics are all dealt with? Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is not a classic. LucasArts’ original 2002 release […]

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter – PS5 Review



CYGNI is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes to us by way of Scottish studio KeelWorks and famed publisher Konami who have surprised us somewhat by putting out an original IP. The game has had quite the media push over the last few months with it landing on the […]

CYGNI: All Guns Blazing – PS5 Review


From Adelaide-based developer Exbleative aka Jay Weston and publisher Future Friends comes interplanetary exploration game Exo One. If we were lazy reviewers we’d say that it was Journey crossed with mid-80’s film Flight of the Navigator, only without the pseudo-mysticism of the former and Pee Wee Herman voicing the ship […]

Exo One – PS5 Review


Earth Defense Force 6 is a third-person action shooter and is developed by Japanese coders Sandlot.  It’s the latest in a long series of games that have a true cult following and we count ourselves as fully paid up members of that cult.  But now that the series is two […]

Earth Defense Force 6 – PS5 Review