Games of my Life: Animal Crossing
On the eve of the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – I thought it’d be fun to share some memories of the GameCube game, which captured my attention for […]
Happy Mario Day!
Seeing as MAR 10 is Mario Day, I thought I’d take the opportunity to once more cover my experience with the very first Super Mario Bros game I ever played […]
Review: Lonely Mountains: Downhill (XBox One)
Available Now – Version Played: Xbox One – Developed by: Megagon Industries – Published by: Thunderful Publishing Though Lonely Mountains: Downhill bills itself as a relaxing ride down a mountain trail, I actually find it pretty stressful most of the time. That’s not to say that I haven’t enjoyed it; nor that the scenery, art style and general ambience aren’t […]
Dark Veer
Version Played: Switch – Out Now (£4.49/$4.99) – Published by: Forever Entertainment It’s October. The nights are getting darker – as are the mornings – it’s getting colder and Halloween […]
Billy Bomber – Switch
Out Now – Switch (£4.49/$5.00) – Published by: Ultimate Games I had high hopes for Billy Bomber, given its unusual puzzle mechanics and a style of play that should have […]
The Video Game Adventures of Monte McGnarly: Volume One
Available from: Amazon.com Note from the author, George Giese, regarding the book’s proceeds: “20% of my author’s share goes to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Hopefully all gamers have a […]
Cyber Protocol – Switch
Nintendo Switch – Out Now ($9.99/£8.99) – By Red Deer Games I was born in ’77, so I grew up in the 1980s as cyberpunk was becoming an important, highly-regarded […]
Opinion: Contra Rogue Corps
You really have to feel for Konami UK’s social media person, whoever that is. They’re doing their best, bless ‘em, but the hand they’ve been dealt is a particularly bad […]
Deadliest Catch: The Game
I had heard of reality TV series, Deadliest Catch, which concerns itself with Alaskan King Crab fishing, but I must confess that I have never seen it. In doing some […]
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order – Switch
If nothing else, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 demonstrates right from the beginning how far Marvel characters have come in terms of general pop culture awareness since the first game came […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin: 16 – James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game
Versions Played: Xbox 360 and Wii Current CEX Price: £1.50 (Xbox 360), £1 (Wii) This may seem to be a super weird choice to cover as a Bargain Bin title. […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin: 14 – Escape from Bug Island!
Version Played: Wii – Current CEX Price: £1.50 I’m a sucker for monster movies with outrageously dramatic titles (just in case the title of this particular series of articles didn’t […]
The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors – Switch
Out now (EU)/Release Date TBC (US), Version Played: Switch (£16.99) I pride myself on having a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of certain eras in gaming; having frequented arcades on such a regular […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 12: Jambo! Safari
Version Played: Wii Current CEX Price: £2 The late 90s/early 00s was a time when arcades still felt like they had new experiences to offer that you couldn’t replicate at home, or at least not to the same effect. Sega was releasing some absolutely wonderful games; though some received home conversions – and ports like Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast went […]
Mr Blaster – Switch
Mr Blaster – Out now on Switch ($1.99/£1.79) – Published by Forever Entertainment I first encountered the turn-based chaos of Worms way back in the mid-90s on the PlayStation and […]
Grave Keeper – Switch
Grave Keeper – Out now on Nintendo Switch ($9.99/£8.99) – Published by Forever Entertainment Not to be confused with the recently released cemetery management sim Graveyard Keeper, Grave Keeper is […]
