Bring the Pain. Do you love a properly hard challenge? Do you thrive in hostile and punishing game environments where constant death is an expected and necessary part of the cycle? Well then, Flying Oak Games’ ScourgeBringer might just be right up your street. Here we have a tough as nails roguelite that funnels its […]
And sales are still rapidly rising. Ring Fit Adventure is proving to be so popular in Nintendo’s home country of Japan that it has now sold more physical copies than one of Switch’s biggest releases, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. If you keep up to date with our regular Japanese chart updates, […]
Capture guaranteed! This week sees the launch of Pokémon Sword and Shield‘s second piece of DLC, The Crown Tundra, bringing with it the chance to catch all legendary Pokémon from past games. If you’re worried about missing one, or if the idea of intense battles against so many legendary ‘mon sounds a bit daunting, you […]
Switch takes a good chunk of the top ten. UK chart data is now in for the week ending 17th October, revealing that FIFA 21 is still sitting pretty at the top of the charts. The Switch version continues to sell poorly compared to other versions – although that’s no real surprise – but Nintendo’s […]
Or watch in VR. With the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars last month, plenty of us have been reexploring the glorious, nostalgic locations found within Super Mario 64. If you find yourself in a particularly strong Mario mood at the moment, you might want to check out this lovely recreation of one of the […]
At first I was afraid, I was petrified. The Survivalists is not the most enticing title that Team17 could have gone with for this one. Yes, it sets the stage for this follow-up to The Escapists in keeping with its traditional nomenclature, but they really should have front-loaded the monkey butlers, and called the game […]
“Maybe a AAA SNES game?”. The term ‘hidden gem’ is one that, unfortunately, crops up all too frequently these days. With wave upon wave of quality titles hitting digital storefronts every week, more games than ever risk getting carried away by the tide before you’ve had the chance to pick them up. Horace — ostensibly […]
Into the Zoid. This new Switch release takes us on a trip down memory lane to the world of Zoids, Tomy’s massive mechanical animals and their mad human riders who’ve been doing the rounds since all the way back in 1984. Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed, which originally released as Zoids Wild: King of Blast in […]
“I’m sure I’ll be back”. It was only last month the Kingdom Hearts director, Tetsuya Nomura, was saying there were currently “no specific plans” to bring more games in this particular series to the Nintendo Switch, after the release of Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory. At the time, though, he did mention how he still […]
“I would pour my entire life and soul into that project”. Legendary video game composer, Grant Kirkhope, recently revealed on the podcast Kiwi Talks that his goal in the immediate future is to compose for Illumination’s CGI Mario Movie – scheduled to make its big-screen debut in 2022. Kirkhope feels he knows Mario enough at […]