Comic Book Review: Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies #3
With Megatron and Shockwave missing, the Decepticons have a power vacuum that several key players are keen to take advantage of. Falling over themselves to seize control, the brutal regime […]
Comic Book Review: Transformers ’84: Secrets & Lies #2
Here we are with the third issue of Transformers ’84, a strange situation given it’s actually #2 – which stemmed from the opening chapter being a #0 issue. Usually used […]
Review: Atari Pong Table (2019)
The sad, slow decline of the Atari brand, which began with the US video game crash of 1983, has been increasingly painful to behold. The once-beloved brand has been absolutely run […]
Review: Battleship
UbiSoft and Hasbro teamed up in 2016 to bring some of the board game publisher’s best known tabletop games to consoles. With a long and seemingly close partnership with EA […]
Review: Monopoly Plus
If you tell anyone outside of the gaming community that one of your hobbies is ‘board games’, the inevitable next question you’ll hear is “Oh, like Monopoly?”. It’s unbelievably ubiquitous […]
Board Game Review: Monopoly Arcade – Pac-Man
I’m not a huge fan of standard Monopoly, as I find it to be a very outdated design that’s far too reliant on the luck of the dice to be […]
Rebellion Specials 2020 (Part 2)
Yesterday, I covered the first half of 2020’s one-off special comics that were published by 2000AD owner Rebellion. There were some fantastic titles in there, so if you haven’t read […]
Rebellion Specials 2020 (Part 1)
Despite all of the hurdles and challenges faced in 2020 – not least some restrictive lockdown procedures that many of us endured for several months of the year – Rebellion […]
Comic Book Review: Misty Winter Special 2020
Halloween may have come and gone, but the long, cold nights are here for a little while longer – the ideal conditions to scare yourself silly with a pair of […]
Preview: Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony
Due for release in the 2nd quarter of 2021, Crowalt: Traces of the Lost Colony is a point and click adventure that taps into the classic spirit of LucasArts titles from the 80s and 90s. It has all of the elements you’d expect: charming pixel art, wonderful animation, a humourous script and pirates. Lots of pirates. The story sees young […]
Comic Book Review: Roy of the Rovers Summer Special 2020
This is a bit of a weird one for me. I have very rarely – in my 43 plus a bit years on this planet – had any interest in […]
Film Review: Alita: Battle Angel
Based on the early 90s Japanese manga strip Ganmu – translated into English as Battle Angel Alita – and the 1993 animé (also known in English as Battle Angel Alita), this James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez-directed film was originally announced way back in 2003, with Cameron set to direct. However, with James Cameron now seemingly invested in directing nothing but the […]
Review: Halo 3 (Campaign)
Three years and a new console after Halo 2’s campaign came to an anti-climactic close, Halo 3 arrived. Having been thoroughly unimpressed by the ending of Halo 2 and not particularly enamoured with its campaign in general, I wasn’t in a rush to pick up Halo 3. Sure, I know that most people swore by the multiplayer in the first […]
Film Review: Scoob! (2020)
At first glance, Scoob! seems like it’s going to be an origin story for our favourite scaredy-dog and his mystery solving friends. Yet it soon becomes clear that it’s a shameless, awkward and somewhat cynical attempt to set up a shared universe featuring the classic Hanna-Barbera characters from the 60s and 70s. It all starts off nicely, with a young […]
Review: Sisters Royale
Available Now on: PS4, Switch, Xbox One – Version Played: Xbox One Though Sisters Royale released earlier this year on PS4 and Switch, the Xbox One version has only just gone on sale – and it’s the port for Microsoft’s console that I’ve been able to play. If you went into Sisters Royale completely blind, it’d probably be a huge […]
Review: Nova Drift
Available Now on Steam and itch.io – Price: $14.99 When you first start playing Nova Drift, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s essentially an updated, upgraded, neon drenched Asteroids tribute. Your ship is controlled with thrust using the left trigger of a controller, with your weapon fired using the right trigger. So far, so standard, right? Then you start […]
