The ’80s was a golden age for arcade shoot ’em up games.  Many will remember the likes of Nemesis, R-Type, Salamander and many other franchises that took advantage of the decade’s fondness for games where a single spacecraft pilot would take on the alien hordes.  These games all had much in […]

Darius Cozmic Collection Console – PS4 Review

You have to feel sorry for Pong to some small degree. As one of the first and most recognisably important game franchises to grace and kickstart video game history, It’s lasting legacy seems to be forever relegated to being that monochrome low-fi tennis game that is instantly recognisable yes, but […]

Pong Quest – PS4 Review

From Hamburg based developer and publisher Daedelic Entertainment comes Edna and Harvey – The Breakout: Anniversary Edition. The anniversary part refers to the fact that this is a re-release of the original game released back in 2008 on PC. In a similar fashion to the Halo Anniversary on Xbox, you […]

Edna and Harvey – The Breakout : Anniversary Edition – ...

The last Shantae game, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, was my first experience with the series and was a delight. Now the previously iOS only Shantae and the Seven Sirens has hit PS4 bringing more light-hearted, Metroidvania-style platforming action. Shantae and her friends start the game on holiday. They’ve been invited to […]

Shantae and the Seven Sirens – PS4 Review

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Super Soccer Blast is an arcade style football game and by that we mean that it leaves all of the fancy presentation, realism and licensing at the door and instead offers the kind of football action we were used to seeing twenty or so years ago.  Having grown up playing Match […]

Super Soccer Blast – PS4 Review

Two years ago we reviewed Riddled Corpses EX, an enjoyable twin-stick shooter with very strong upgrading mechanics by COWCAT games and Demon’s Tier+ is their latest take on the genre but moves it from a post-apocalyptic zombie setting to a more typical dungeon-crawling RPG one. The game throws quite an unnecessarily large […]

Demon’s Tier+ – PS4 Review

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I really enjoyed Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun back when I reviewed it three years ago. I haven’t played the first two Desperados games (or the third expansion-esque one) but quickly found myself at home with Desperados III as it very much feels like a sequel to Shadow Tactics […]

Desperados III – PS4 Review

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The classic FPS train keeps rolling. It wasn’t long ago that we were talking about Doom Eternal and Ion Fury, both of which led the charge for retro flavoured FPS gameplay, utilising either a time honoured franchise name and carrying things forward or by digging up old technology and making […]

Project Warlock – PS4 Review

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Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling from Moonsprout Games by way of publisher Dangen Entertainment is an action RPG  that came out on PC last winter.  Now out on all current consoles including the PS4, we get to enjoy it too. We’ve seen endless comparisons to the Paper Mario series from […]

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling – PS4 Review

Say the words visual novel to me and I have a pretty good idea of what to expect. Just through osmosis, I’ve gained a perception of a genre that has a rather uneasy underbelly to it. Strawberry Vinegar manages to punch this home every step of the way. Coming from […]

Strawberry Vinegar – PS4 Review

I ended up coming around to Remnant: From the Ashes in my original review. At times it was frustrating and repetitive by design but the loop of replaying areas hoping to trigger an event you hadn’t seen in order to get different gear or traits became quite addictive and I […]

Remnant: From the Ashes – Swamps of Corsus – DLC ...

For all that Trailmakers doesn’t have Lego branding, you’d be forgiven for thinking it should have. Flashbulb Games are also based in Copenhagen, which although not that close to Billund (home of Lego) makes us wonder a little at what might have been. Trailmakers was an exclusive on Xbox One […]

Trailmakers – PS4 Review