Category: Reviews & Previews
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake Preview: Ori...
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door's remake for the Nintendo Switch makes a classic RPG accessible for everyone
Manor Lords Isn't Finished Yet, But You Should Buy It A...
Manor Lords isn't finished yet, but you should definitely buy it anyway.
Final Fantasy 16: The Rising Tide Review - Save The Las...
The Rising Tide brings Final Fantasy 16 to a close with all the highs and lows we've come to expect from the game.
Sand Land Review: Well, So It Goes!
You're better off just watching the anime.
Stellar Blade Review - All About Eve
Stellar Blade is a competent mix of character action and Soulsborne, but with a dull protagonist and uninspired narrative.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Wrath Of The Mutants Revi...
Wrath of the Mutants has some simple arcade enjoyment and represents one of the best TMNT shows, but it's far too short to be wort...
Tales Of Kenzera: Zau Review - The Joy Within Pain
Tales of Kenzera: Zau's loving exploration of grief and death is complimented by satisfying platforming, crunchy combat, and easyg...
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Review - The Stars Of...
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes has done the impossible and lived up to the hype.
Razer Kishi Ultra Is A Better Mobile Controller Than Mo...
The Kishi Ultra might be my new favorite controller.
Botany Manor Review: Forgotten Flora, Unforgettable Del...
Sometimes on a dreary day, you just need to zone out into Victorian England and grow the same plant six times on accident.
SaGa Emerald Beyond Review
A semi-decent combat system can't make up for SaGa Emerald Beyond's inability to capture a player's attention or help make explori...
Another Crabs Treasure Review
Balancing brutality and comfort is tough for any game, let alone a Soulslike, but Another Crabs Treasure proves capable of support...
Sand Land Video Game Review
Sand Land is a charming adventure with memorable characters and satisfying progression, but its open world is about as dry as its ...
Stellar Blade Review
Stellar Blade's main character is getting most of the attention, but the game has a lot more to offer beyond its gratuitous fan se...
The Last Case of Benedict Fox - Definitive Edition Revi...
In a year flooded with excellent Metroidvanias, The Last Case of Benedict Fox - Definitive Edition stands out for all the wrong re...
Biomorph Review
Biomorph should satisfy any Metroidvania cravings for genre fans, but flat writing and an underdeveloped central hook leave parts ...
Inkbound Review
Inkbound's take on the roguelike tactical-rpg genre doesn't break the mold but it succeeds in making its turn-based combat compell...
Broken Roads Review
Drop Bear Bytes debut game Broken Roads feels like a throwback to post-apocalyptic RPGs of the past, yet it falls short of being p...
No Rest For the Wicked early access review - a shaky st...
No Rest for the Wicked feels like a bit of a missing link. In the same way that Salt and Sanctuary bridged a gap between Metroidv...
Stellar Blade review - no thinking, just slashing
I don't know if there's a universal winning formula for a great action game out there, but Stellar Blade sure has tried its harde...
Manor Lords early access review - beautiful foundations...
Yesterday, in between bouts of Manor Lords, I popped down the road to do some food shopping, and bought bread, milk, vegetables, ...
Tales of Kenzera review: a compassionate Afro-futurist ...
Of all the Metroidvania elements in Tales of Kenzera: Zau, my favourite are the trees. Simply enough, meditating inside a tree ...
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes review - a Suikoden s...
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is exactly what its lofty crowdfunding campaign promised it would be: a Suikoden successor in a...
Life Eater review - an intriguingly uncomfortable game ...
Mechanically, Life Eater uses a diary-based puzzle system in some really interesting ways, but it struggles to say anything meani...
Harold Halibut review - sub-aquatic sci-fi adventure is...
What if a game was intentionally quite boring? This feels like the premise with Harold Halibut, and at first it's kind of brillia...
Inkbound review - another stand out roguelike by the Mo...
This time it's Hades that Shiny Shoe's game feels similar to, but with some delicious differences that make this roguelike stand ...
Broken Roads review - a lonely scavenger hunt for scrap...
My favourite RPGs are the ones that really consider exactly who the character is - or can be - in their world. From Tyranny's pow...
Fallout season 1 review - a wild Wasteland safari where...
Boom time: whether by accident or design, the Fallout TV show - announced in 2020 and arriving in a binge-ready eight-episode pay...
Review: EA’s Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is a challenging, po...
ZAU is a strong debut for Surgent Studios, but some stumbles stop it from being truly great
TopSpin 2K25 is a hugely satisfying return for an ace t...
It's been 13 years since the last entry, but 2K has brought it back with a bang
Sonic’s Knuckles Paramount+ show isn’t the knockout fan...
Egregious product placement and an utterly bizarre bottle episode tarnish what is otherwise good fun.
Beat Slayer
Another month, another rogue-like to come out! I love them when done right, and we’ve had some absolute bangers. Hades is a master...
South Park: Snow Day
South Park has an outstanding legacy as a pop cultural satire phenomenon. Over 25 years, South Park has examined many cultural, po...
Stellar Blade is one of the most mechanically satisfyin...
Shift Up's console debut delivers a refreshing refinement of the well-worn character action formula
TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is a basic but servic...
Game Mill's home port of a 2017 arcade beat 'em up offers solid action and nothing else
Pepper Grinder Review
There are neat aspects strewn throughout Pepper Grinder, but its controls and sometimes unfun traversal method may short out this ...
Open Roads Game Review
Open Roads Team and Annapurna Interactive offer players a nostalgic and heartwarming journey into the lives of three women in Open...
Princess Peach: Showtime Review
Princess Peach: Showtime has some standout moments, but many gamers will find it to be too easy and too short for their liking.
Horizon Forbidden West PC Review
Horizon Forbidden West is the latest PlayStation game to make the jump to PC, and it's also one of Nixxes' finest ports so far.
South Park: Snow Day Review
While South Park: Snow Day has its moments, it's ultimately a muted experience and doesn't hold a strong place in the franchise.
MLB The Show 24 Review
MLB The Show 24 is a return to form for the series, revamping Diamond Dynasty while making its single-player modes a must-play for...
Rise of the Ronin Review
After years of emphasizing combat and loot, Rise of the Ronin diverges from Team Ninja's modern Souls stylings to let players tell...
Dragon's Dogma 2 Review
Dragon's Dogma 2 is everything fans could want from a Dragon's Dogma sequel, but that also means it has a few rough edges.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Review
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake enhances the presentation of the classic game but leaves the story and unique gameplay mechani...
Alone in the Dark Review
The new Alone in the Dark is a generic survival-horror adventure that fails to break the trend of bad Alone in the Dark games.
Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles review - meditative city ...
A gentle and unusual building game that's memorable but missing some purpose.Bulwark is a city-building game that works different...
The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road Preview
Gold Road might be the mst beautiful chapter yeet.
MechWarrior 5: Clans Is Bringing A New Narrative Focus ...
The next MechWarrior puts a spotlight on the pilots inside the machines.
Dead Cells Devs Next Big Roguelike, Windblown, Has Some...
Windblown is a mutliplayer-focused roguelike from the studio behind Dead Cells.
Homeworld: Vast Reaches Proves VR Is A Great Place For ...
Vast Reaches brings Homeworld's classic space RTS gameplay to VR with some clever tweaks to the formula.
Deathbound Brings A Whole D&D Party To Dark Souls
Beating the upcoming Deathbound, inspired by Dark Souls and Elden Ring, will mean mastering four characters at once.
Corsair Platform:6 Review - Stand By Me
Corsair breaks into the desk scene in a big way with the Platform:6.
Pepper Grinder Review - Drill-y Good
Pepper Grinder's blisteringly fast platforming and wealth of unique ideas make it a joy to drill through even when it's kicking yo...
Visions Of Mana Preview - Elemental, My Dear Catboy
For the first time since 2007, the Mana series from Square Enix is back with an all-new entry, Visions of Mana.
One Last Breath Review - Almost A Breath Of Fresh Air
One Last Breath has some interesting puzzle-platforming and a beautiful art style, but is lacking polish
Adventures In Gameland Is A Throwback To NES Gaming And...
Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil are back to their old tricks in the new NES release, Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland, from Limited R...
Pepper Grinder review - straight-ahead fun with brillia...
Pepper Grinder is one of those 2D platform games with a big idea. And its big idea is brilliant. You're a tiny character scamperi...
Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race review: direct drive raci...
The Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race is a complete racing wheel and pedals of the sort that you'd expect to find in a mainstream ele...
Dell Alienware AW3225QF review: the best 32-inch QD-OLE...
Earlier this month I reviewed the Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM, a 32-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor that combines a 4K resolution with 24...
Open Roads review - a pleasant road trip that doesn't g...
A gentle adventure into a family's secrets that's nicely crafted but over before it really begins.I had some concerns about Open ...
Timemelters review - weird, cold-blooded tactical brill...
In Timemelters, time is a shoelace. It bends and twists. What you've done with one part of the lace can effect the other parts in...
Princess Peach: Showtime! review - the damsel in distre...
Princess Peach: Showtime! is unlike anything else. It shouldn't be like anything else -- the action-adventure game is only the se...
Rise of the Ronin review - samurai action that's as gro...
Games set in the Bakumatsu period must feel like buses. You wait almost a decade for one to be made, and then two come along in s...
Dragon's Dogma 2 review - endless discoveries paired wi...
As I launched Dragon's Dogma 2 for the first time, I told myself that I should go into it with a more critical eye than I usu...
Alone in the Dark review – a perfunctory romp that does...
Janky. That's the word that springs to mind when I think back to the games I used to play – Alone in the Dark among them – as a k...
Rise of the Ronin’s great combat can’t elevate a pedest...
Team Ninja delivers a jack of many trades, but it fails to double down on any of them
Alone in the Dark is another frustrating reboot for the...
A promising setup is let down by repetitive puzzles, poor combat and frequent glitches
Princess Peach Showtime is a spirited, if safe starring...
Peach's pleasing variety performances make up for some shallow mechanics
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is the most vital action RPG since Eld...
Capcom's epic expects you to meet it on its level, and when you do, you'll find one of the best RPGs of the last decade
South Park: Snow Day is an authentic, but repetitive co...
Cartman and co's trip to 3D is enjoyable for a while but gets old fast
Saviorless
There have been quite a few of these side-scrolling narrative games, and you know of the ones I mean. While not as many or as boom...
Bears in Space
Does the title catch your attention? Well, it did certainly catch mine and I’m so glad it did. Bears in Space is a lovable sci-fi ...
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection
Gamers (particularly the old ones like me) can 100% agree plenty of classic games need a comeback. Be it with a remaster, honest r...
The Outlast Trials
As human beings, we have a taste for the macabre in one way or another. Be it a fascination with spooky stories, an interest in un...
The Atari 400 Mini is a fantastic tribute, with one maj...
With an eclectic mix of built-in games and support for more via USB, the joystick is the only thing that lets us down
Review: The Outlast Trials – Therapy Isn't Easy
The Outlast Trials is more Outlast, but with a live-service twist.
Outcast: A New Beginning Review
Outcast: A New Beginning feels like a blast from open-world's past, but it may be hard for some to look past the game's many short...
Unicorn Overlord Review
Unicorn Overlord stands out as one of the best tactical RPGs in recent memory, with only a few setbacks on its march to victory.
The Thaumaturge Review
Despite a repetitive gameplay loop, The Thaumaturge's mix of demons and magic has created a detective-focused adventure worth visi...
The Outlast Trials Review
The Outlast Trials 1.0 is a delightfully disturbing multiplayer experience, but a lack of polish and scares may leave some disappo...
WWE 2K24 Review
WWE 2K24 features incredibly fun in-ring action and a ton of quality content, even if some of the game modes lack significant impr...
Inkulinati Review
Inkulinati is an extremely charming turn-based strategy game, but players looking for something to sink hours into may not find it...
Skull and Bones Review
Skull and Bones tries to be a new kind of pirate adventure, but its redundant gameplay and forgettable story leave it in murky wat...
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Review
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is an epic-scale adventure with an unforgettable cast of characters that will keep players busy for dozens...
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Starring Lara Croft Review
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered offers a delightful trip down memory lane for fans of the original games but may still be a bit too jan...
Helldivers 2 Review
Helldivers 2 is an excellent sci-fi shooter that delivers one of the most unforgiving, and downright hilarious, coop experiences g...
Review: GameSir X2s Mobile Controller – My Gateway To M...
Finally, I can play mobile games.
Lightyear Frontier Review
If this is the final frontier, I'm all for it.
Highwater Review - Wading Through The Flood
This game has lots of style, but not much substance
The Finals' Season 2 Gadgets And Specialisations Are It...
The new toys you'll be able to play with in The Finals' second season are simply fantastic.
The Finals' New Power Shift Game Mode Is Style Over Sub...
The Finals' new Power Shift game mode isn't the best way to play.
The Elder Scrolls Online Bedlam Veil Preview - Celebrat...
We delve into one of ESO's most ambitious dungeons yet ahead of its 10th anniversary.
Rise Of The Ronin's First Hours Are Unsteady, But With ...
Koei Tecmo's open-world Souls-like Rise of the Ronin has a glimmer of something special under its rough exterior.
3 Body Problem Review
Netflix's new sci-fi series from the creators of Game of Thrones, 3 Body Problem, is fascinating and messy.
SWISSGEAR 8120 USB Gaming Laptop Backpack Review
You can literally fit everything you need in this bag. Here's our review of the Swissgear Gaming Laptop Backpack.
Monster Hunter Now Season 1 Brings The Mobile Game Even...
Monster Hunter Now celebrates six months with a massive start to Season One.
The Thaumaturge review - a refreshingly different Polis...
Lurking behind a dated exterior is a limited but sophisticated RPG with a unique setting and some memorable new ideas.I think it ...
Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM review: the best gaming mo...
Wake up, nerds - new gaming monitors are here. Five years after the advent of 27-inch Fast IPS 1440p 144Hz monitors, which earned...
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story review - classic games...
The black screen has a single white dot at its centre. The expectation is that we're in for something like Pong: something simple...
Penny's Big Breakaway review - a bright platformer with...
Whenever I first get to play a new Mario Kart game there's always a moment - often when I reach a Bowser stage - where I look at ...
