SUPERHOT was something special when it released on PC back in 2016. The core gameplay of time standing still (or at least moving incredibly slowly) unless you moved made for some great scenarios and action set pieces. Combined with the super stylistic visuals and a vague and trippy story SUPERHOT […]

SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE – PS4 Review

With the new season just getting underway, it seems F1 2020 release has been accidentally well timed. Representing the season Covid won’t allow you to have, Codemasters’ latest effort features the two new circuits and a new mode to express your inner Jack Brabham. Some of the tech is looking […]

F1 2020 – PS4 Review

Of all the retro gaming trends to happen in recent years, one of my favourites has to be when publishers go searching for age old titles that never saw the light of day and finish the work of the developers and finally give the games the airing they may or […]

Ultracore – PS4 Review

Now I’ve done it. I’ve opened the Pandora’s box on visual novels now and another one has been sent my way. It’s not a genre I’ve ever been enamoured with but at least A Summer With the Shiba Inu offers a decent mystery on paper. It’s a genre where the […]

A Summer with the Shiba Inu

This week’s Ratalaika release is Clash Force, a run and gun shooter in the vein of Contra. It was originally a phone game but the only real evidence of that is that one of the two settings in the options menu is to mute the game (the other is language). […]

Clash Force – PS4 Review

It shouldn’t need to be said, but It’s been a tough decade or two for Star Wars. Depending on who you ask, the series lived and died by its first three outings, which still stand tall as one of the best movie trilogies to date. There a quite a few […]

Star Wars Episode I: Racer – PS4 Review

RIP Bigben Interactive, we barely knew ye. Now known as Nacon, they bring us Belgian developer Neopica’s latest in Hunting Simulator 2. Something of an about face from ETRC  by the same developer, though they did release the first of these games in 2017. We have to confess it passed […]

Hunting Simulator 2 – PS4 Review

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You probably know this by now but I’m a sucker for hardcore race sims. There’s something about the act of driving that I want to pursue. Unfortunately, life as a cowardly pedestrian has left me resigned to playing at being a boy racer virtually. More often than not, the good […]

Assetto Corsa Competizione – PS4 Review

Continuing their recent, lengthy streak of retro-inspired shoot ’em ups, Eastasiasoft have released Octonaut which is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up featuring the titutar Octonaut, a floating octopus who is tasked with saving the Earth from an alien invasion. Set across eight stages, the game plays out in typical fashion with […]

Octonaut – PS4 Review

Games of all shapes and sizes come to me in this job. Radio Squid comes from PixelTeriyaki and looks to deliver an experimental look at the twin-stick shooter. Whilst somewhat small in scope, there’s some interesting choices here that at least make the game plough its own furrow. The plot […]

Radio Squid – PS4 Review

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? The protagonist of Nickelodeon’s multimedia behemoth, Spongebob Squarepants, that’s who. In this case, this is the latest of THQ Nordic’s rereleases of previous generation games. Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom originally came out in 2003 for PS2, Gamecube & Xbox, garnering […]

Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated – PS4 Review

We very recently reviewed Darius Cozmic Collection Console which is a compilation of home conversions of the various Darius arcade games.  Now any kid of the ’80s and ’90s knows that home conversions of arcade games rarely lived up to the originals, although this did get better when the 16-bit consoles came in […]

Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade – PS4 Review