The year was 2002 and I remember the day vividly. Sitting in my room with a group of misfits that I labelled friends, I slowly reached for my sack (bag not knackers) and presented my latest purchase: Super Monkey Ball. With apprehension, our group of neanderthal metallers began exploring the cutesy, overly Japanese game and […]
Hotline Miami is a top-down shooter game developed by Dennaton Games & published by Devolver Digital. The game was originally released back in October 2012 on PC, but was released on August 19th on the Nintendo Switch as the Hotline Miami Collection, which includes the sequel Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. The premise of Hotline […]
Streets of Rogue was developed by Matt Dabrowski and published by Tiny Build games. It was released on Steam, Switch and PS4 on 12th July 2019, having been in Steam early access since 2017. As is typical for a game which has been slow-cooking for so long, SOR is packed full of content and things to discover. […]
Judgment is the latest release from Ryu ga Gotoku Studios & Sega, the teams that created the well-loved Yakuza series. Judgment is being called the spiritual successor to Yakuza as its set in the same fictional Japanese Red-Light District of Kamurocho. But, it’s set after the conclusion of the Kiryu Saga. As a fan of the Yakuza […]
At Sundown: Shots in the Dark is a hide and seek style multiplayer shoot-em-up stealth game created by mild beast games and Versus|Evil. At sundown is available to play on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo switch and PC. It’s available through local play, training and also you can unlock different game modes as you level […]
Valkyria Chronicles 4, developed and published by SEGA is the latest release in an amazing line of tactical action RPG games. Easily combining leveling up and grinding with tactics and third-person control of each unit, SEGA makes sure you have complete control over every aspect of your little unit. Find out why I am so in […]
It’s ok to root for the bad guy, at least this is what Legend of Evil is telling us. Your job, as Bill, is to bring home the apocalypse, in style, with a dark legion at your disposal. Be careful though, being evil isn’t as easy as you’d expect! Gameplay Legend of Evil is a […]
The market for retro gaming is huge right now. Since Nintendo have released two retro consoles, Sony recently announced their first and you know there will be a mini PS2 to follow. Xbox users mock PlayStation fanboys for a lack of backward compatibility, which does seem to be a real oversight on the part of […]
In the year 1999 EA Sports was hit with a new competitor in the video game basketball genre. Developer Visual Concepts launched the NBA 2K series which has gone from strength to strength since that first outing. The series was originally published by SEGA but now by 2K Sports. Whilst EA has (eventually) pulled ahead […]
That’s right, it’s time for me to talk about Yakuza again… It is of course one of my favourite game series to talk about & this time it’s to look at the re-make of the PS2 game Yakuza 2; Yakuza Kiwami 2. Just like with Kiwami, the hopes here are that it’s bigger, badder & […]