Board Game Review: Star Wars – The Clone Wars (2022)
Pandemic is a hugely popular game – and the underlying system it runs on has seen it rethemed in a surprising number of non-viral-outbreak-related ways. Following on from what was […]
Board Game Review: Pandemic: Hot Zone – Europe (2021)
First published in 2008, co-operative board game Pandemic has proven so popular that it has spawned numerous expansions, spin-offs and licensed adaptations (including a fantastic Star Wars game based on […]
Video Game Review: Timberman: The Big Adventure (Switch)
A character made famous (or infamous!) in a maddeningly fast-paced button basher not unlike Flappy Bird – albeit chopping down trees instead of attempting to fly through precariously positioned gaps […]
Board Game Review: Exit: The Lord of the Rings: Shadows Over Middle-Earth
I’ve written about the Exit games before; as well as a general overview of how they work, I’ve also covered a few of the individual games in the range. The […]
News: Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill Return in 2023 – in Slaps and Beans 2!
The slapstick-and-action B-movies starring duo Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill will be pretty familiar to lots of people who grew up in the 70s and 80s. From Westerns to contemporary […]
Video Game Review: Moo Lander (Xbox Series X)
Fully loaded with cow and milk based puns, this unusual indie Mootroidvania (those puns are infectious, clearly – though I can’t take credit for that particular groanworthy pun) brings a […]
Board Game Review: GI Joe: Deck-Building Game
I’m a big fan of classic GI Joe, and have covered a few of the recent GI Joe comics right here on the blog. So when I saw that Renegade […]
Board Game Review: Alien: Fate of the Nostromo
The trend of turning classic movies into modern board games is pretty big at the moment, with games based on eclectic and perennially popular blockbusters and cult movies being steadily […]
Review: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
The last time a game based on Aliens was released for computers and consoles, we got the absolutely disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines from Gearbox and Sega. A buggy, derivative, just […]
First Impressions: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Regular – or even passing – readers of my blog will know that I’m an absolutely huge fan of the Aliens universe. When Aliens: Fireteam Elite was announced, I read […]
News: Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol Coming to Switch
A pair of mid-90s, 16-bit classics from LucasArts are headed to Switch on the 29th of June. Zombies Ate My Neighbors – published by Konami and known simply as ‘Zombies’ […]
Preview: Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Video games based on the ever-popular Aliens franchise have been a mixed bunch, despite the premise put forth in the movies, particularly 1986’s Aliens, being absolutely perfect for gaming. At […]
Review: Binarystar Infinity
Available now on Switch and PC (Switch version tested) – Published by Forever Entertainment With a very distinctive, Downwell-esque ‘1-bit’ graphical sheen, horizontal shoot ’em up Binarystar Infinity certainly has […]
Preview: Roots of Pacha
With a Kickstarter funding campaign days away from launch and the game’s Steam page now live (so you can add the game to your wishlist right now!), I thought it […]
Board Game Review: Cities: Skylines – The Board Game
City builders are a great genre of video game. Though my specific favourite is still – after all these years – Sim City on the SNES, there’s nevertheless been some brilliant games in the genre in recent times. With EA/Maxis dropping the ball so badly with the last Sim City title (which is a story unto itself, if you don’t […]
Board Game Review: Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth
British comic book character Judge Dredd has been perenially popular since his introduction in the second issue of 2000AD in 1977 (which was, coincidentally, the year I was born). The no-nonsense, somewhat fascistic Dredd is a darkly humourous anti-hero who patrols the mean streets of Mega-City One in a post-apocalyptic future. Outside the walls of the city are the mutant-infested, […]
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