News: SNK vs Capcom: Card Fighters Clash Now on Switch
The Neo Geo Pocket Color was an unfortunately short-lived handheld console that was released at a time where it faced stiff competition from both Nintendo (their Game Boy Color having […]
Microvision – The Best Games & A Short History – Retro Dodo
I’m currently writing on a regular basis for Retro Dodo – and my most recent article for them has just been published. Given how proud I am of my work […]
Happy 40th Birthday, Ms. Pac-Man!
Ms. Pac-Man was first released in arcades on the 13th of January 1982 – and remains one of the finest arcade games of all time (don’t just take my word […]
Preview: Tape Recovery Simulator 96k
Despite the frustration, boredom and confusion it often caused, there’s still a nostalgia for the blinky, screechy flashes of data loading from tapes that’ll be familiar to anyone who grew […]
Preview: Shinorubi (Steam Early Access)
Bullet hell shooter Shinorubi launches as an Early Access title on the 20th of January 2022. Thanks to IGM, I’ve been able to try Shinorubi out for myself and can […]
News: Biker Garage: Mechanic Simulator Now Available on Nintendo Switch
Though games in the simulator genre used to be pretty niche affairs, in recent years they’ve seen a surge of popularity. The Switch seems to be a natural home for […]
My Video Game of the Year 2021
Last year, perhaps due to several periods of lockdown and furlough, I was able to sink significant amounts of time into Sea of Thieves, regularly sailing with the same crew […]
Review: Stitchy in Tooki Trouble (Nintendo Switch)
Platform games – 2.5D ones in particular – seem to be a lot more common on the Switch than on any other contemporary console. Perhaps the popularity of first party […]
Review: WWE 2K Battlegrounds (Xbox Series X)
The last ‘proper’ WWE game was the much maligned WWE 2K20, which released in 2019, spawning thousands of meme-worthy videos and GIFs of hilarious bugs and glitches. It was clearly […]
Review: Deeeer Simulator: Your Average Everyday Deer Game (Xbox Series X)
It’s definitely not your Average Everyday Deer Game, no matter what Deeeer Simulator’s subtitle may try to assure you. That much is obvious not just from the overuse of the […]
News: [lock-on] 002 from Lost in Cult Launches Today
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign – which ran for the last few weeks of August this year – the second volume of premium gaming journal [lock-on] from Lost in Cult […]
News: Evercade Announces Gremlin Collection 1, Coming March 2022
This was genuinely exciting news to wake up to; the latest Evercade compilation is a collection of games from Gremlin, a sadly defunct publisher. Beginning in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics […]
Review: The Matrix Awakens (Xbox Series X)
So, after mysteriously dropping onto the stores of the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 earlier this week – as covered in my news article – the mysterious The Matrix Awakens: […]
Video Game Review: Townscaper (Xbox)
There’s a lot to be said for Game Pass and the fact that it allows you to try out smaller, perhaps more experimental titles that you otherwise wouldn’t have taken […]
News: Forever Limited Black Friday Sale
I’m not normally one to jump on a bandwagon (especially one that’s so relentlessly in your face and depressingly commercial as Black Friday), but with Forever Limited – the physical […]
News: Omen Exitio: Plague Receives Significant Update on Switch
It’s been a while since I reviewed creepy, Lovecraftian interactive fiction title Omen Exitio: Plague on the Switch – it was published way back in 2019 after all. Despite the […]
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