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15Oct

By AaronNo Comments

Cake Bash – Sweet Victory

Cake bash is an all-out fun game where you play as a cake on their way to becoming the tastiest cake around and make sure the customer picks you. You’ll battle your way through some candy-filled mini-games to become the tastiest treat. Earn chocolate coins as you play through each mini-game to buy yourself some delicious toppings. Smash fortune cookies, throw strawberries and dodge cutlery to become the chosen one. Complete cake madness! Gameplay You have the choice of playing with up to 4 friends online, spending time with the family playing split screen at home on the couch or facing off with 3 bots as you play each mini-game. At the start you get to choose whether you want to play the tutorial to learn the controls and get the hang of game play. Although not very in-depth, it’s...

Forge and Fight! – Bonkers Online Brawler

2Oct

By GrantNo Comments

PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

Forge and Fight! – Bonkers Online Brawler

Forge and Fight! is pure madness, coupled with limitless customisation possibilities for your choice of weaponry. I’ve had some good fun with the game during its Early Access, however, there could be some improvements made to bring it up to it’s deserved glory. Developed by Flamebait Games, it’s a ludicrous multiplayer online brawler, that you can get your hands on over at Steam. If you’re looking for a light-hearted game to drop in to and thrash out, then this may be the one for you! Gameplay There are two modes at your disposal, either the online arena which pits you against your adversaries in team-based combat, which includes categories like, last team standing, brawl, push the cart and capture the zone. In this game mode, you’ll be presented with random upgrade choices at the be...

Marvel’s Avengers – A Compelling Assembly

25Sep

By ArNo Comments

Xbox Reviews

Marvel’s Avengers – A Compelling Assembly

As somewhat of an MCU novice, I was excited to have the opportunity to review Marvel's Avengers, the superhero-packed action role-playing brawler developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. I say novice, but what I really mean is a total newcomer. Having only recently started to work my way through the Marvel movies (I've just finished Captain America: The Winter Soldier), I can confidently say I approached this game with an almost entirely blank slate and zero expectations. Whether or not that's a good thing depends on your position as a Marvel stan I guess, but if this game has shown me anything, it's that you don't have to exist in the world of the superhero to actually become one. Prior knowledge of this universe is helpful to some, but certainly not a prerequisite w...

Necromunda: Underhive Wars – Necromundane

21Sep

By CraigNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Necromunda: Underhive Wars – Necromundane

There have been many games released set in the Warhammer 40k universe. There have been some particularly outstanding titles, but not all of them were winners. From RTS to shooters, and just about everything in between, Warhammer 40K has a huge library of games. Most recently released was Necromunda: Underhive Wars. Developed by Rogue Factor, and published by Focus Home Interactive for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. For this review, I'll be taking a look at the Playstation 4 version of the game. So let's roll up our sleeves and take a look. Deep below the nightmarish, polluted hive cities of Necromunda, in the twisted, vertiginous, dark tunnels of the Underhive, rival gangs fight to the bitter end for personal power, wealth, survival and the honour of their Houses. Only the stron...

Double Kick Heroes – Death Metal Madness!

14Sep

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Double Kick Heroes – Death Metal Madness!

Back in April 2018, I previewed a crazy button bashing game featuring a Gundillac, and a zombie apocalypse, all set to metal music. Double Kick Heroes looked a very promising game and was set to imminently release. As with all great plans, however, devs Headbang Club stumbled across financial issues when seeking a publisher and the game was delayed. They did not waste their time however and decided to expand further onto their already well-received idea. Fast forward to the present and Double Kick Heroes has now been released onto PC, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. Gameplay To sum the gameplay of Double Kick Heroes, it is a pixel graphic guitar hero that meets the zombie apocalypse but replace the guitar with a drum kit! The background to the game is to get the daring metal band acro...

28Aug

By Jay ArmstrongNo Comments

Xbox Reviews

Battletoads – Toadally Rad!

Every review I seem to write these days leaves me rattling on about nostalgia; and here I am reviewing Battletoads. Rare's IP has been brought back to life by Dlala Studios, acting as both a sequel and a reboot to the series which has been absent since 1994. So here we are 26 years later, a new animation style and a whole range of mechanics crammed into 1 tidy package. Battletoads puts you back in control of one of the titular heroes; Pimple, Rash or Zitz. Harkening back to the 90's series, Battletoads main focus is that of a side-scrolling beat 'em up. Unlike the older games though there is a lot of other modes scattered throughout the campaign. Utilising the self-aware comedy and a modern animated style Dlala Studios has revived the IP with great success. Gameplay Each of the 3 ...

Pacer – A Refreshing Hit Of Nostalgia That Won’t Leave You Feeling Wiped Out…

17Aug

By Jay ArmstrongNo Comments

PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

Pacer – A Refreshing Hit Of Nostalgia That Won’t Leave You Feeling Wiped Out…

As if 2020 wasn't already chock-full of nostalgia, with the likes of Half-Life: Alyx and Final Fantasy VII launching, we now have a new Wipeout. Well that's not strictly true, Pacer is actually a spiritual successor to Wipeout and also the re-imaging of Formula Fusion. Formula Fusion was the debut game from R8 Games launching back in 2015 as an early access game on Steam. It would seem that things didn't quite go to plan for R8 Games with them needing to explore Kickstarter as a funding option back in 2019. With a successful Kickstarter campaign behind them, and a rebranding of the game to Pacer it would seem the team at R8 Games has cracked the formula and is ready to unleash the game on the world. Coming from a team who worked at Psygnosis Leeds and actively contributed to Wipeout...

14Aug

By BrianNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Cuphead – Don’t Deal with the Devil

Cuphead is the first and only game developed and published by the Canadian indie developers StudioMDHR. Founders and brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer tried to make a game like Cuphead in 2000 but lacked the tools to do so. Following the success of indie game Super Meat Boy in 2010, the brothers decided to give it another go and so development on Cuphead had begun. It was first announced in 2014 and gained instant fandom and admiration for its difficulty and art style. Cuphead was released 3 years later on Xbox One and PC. It later appeared on Switch, and now it's on PS4, despite StudioMDHR saying "there will be no PS4 version". Cuphead is certainly a novel looking game, does it feel as old as its 1930s aesthetic? Gameplay The story, in a nutshell, is that two happy little cu...

13Aug

By MattNo Comments

PC Reviews

S.C.A.R – 90’s Retro FPS In Da House?

Do you like running around and shooting monsters? Yes? I thought so. S.C.A.R stands for Simulating Carnage and Rockets, which is a perfect way to describe, it is a new game developed by Savage Studios and published by Audio Visual Enterprises S.A. S.C.A.R is only on PC at the moment, whether it makes the step to console is still yet to be seen. Gameplay S.C.A.R plays really well, with the retro FPS vibe, moving around in the different sections of the game is brilliant, picking up new guns, ammo, healing etc. Weapons are pretty standard for an FPS. It really makes you go mental with the amount of stuff you can do, blowing up monsters with your rocket launcher or just beating them up with your fists. The mobility is brilliant with you being able to jump pretty high but then also speed da...

Destroy All Humans! – One Giant Step On Mankind!

28Jul

By BrianNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Destroy All Humans! – One Giant Step On Mankind!

Right now, you are thinking one of three things. You are either thinking "is this the latest game about a particular epidemic", "Destroy All Humans! - hmm, where have I heard that before", or you are thinking "oh my god, DESTROY ALL HUMANS! - they finally remade the game". If you're thinking the third option, then you are dead right with the game being released on 28/07/2020 on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Google Stadia. Destroy All Humans! it's a remake, not a remaster, of the cult classic game of the same name released in 2005. The original game was developed by the now-defunct Pandemic Studios, so development has been handed over to a team of 60 people over at Black Forest Games who are noted for their work on the Giana Sisters games. THQ Nordic have taken the publishing reigns again since...