News: The Switch Collector: Volume One – Reprint
Video game historian and writer Jeffrey Wittenhagen crowdfunded the first printing of The Switch Collector: Volume One back in 2019. The book is a beautiful coffee table tome that features […]
Board Game Review: Pac-Man: The Board Game
Back in the mid-80s, there were a glut of board games based on video games, with some absolutely incredible designs that, whilst quite dated by today’s standards, were nonetheless visually […]
Review: Interplay Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 04)
Controversial opinion time – let’s get this out of the way right from the start: Earthworm Jim just isn’t a very good game. Though it was perhaps a victim of […]
Review: Unspottable
Local multiplayer games are nowhere near as prevalent these days as they were in the era before online gaming. When big publishers realised that taking multiplayer gaming online meant a […]
Review: Data East Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 03)
When I hear the Data East name, I tend to think of beat ’em ups like Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja (which, for the longest time, I thought was just called […]
Review: Namco Museum Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 02)
Having already reviewed the first cartridge in the Evercade’s growing library, the Atari Collection 1, it’s now the turn of the second compilation: Namco Museum Collection 1. As the cartridge […]
News: Evercade VS
Announced in May this year – and arriving in November – the Evercade VS is a non-handheld evolution of the superb Evercade console, which launched last year to great Acclaim […]
Preview: Colorball
Check out the Colorball website here Available now on App Lab – the Oculus ‘Early Access’-style storefront, which is still way too hidden and difficult to uncover for most users […]
Review: Atari Collection 1 (Evercade Cartridge 01)
Though the Starter Pack of the Evercade comes complete with Namco Museum Collection 1 – making that cartridge the one that many new Evercade owners are likely to try first […]
Review: Uglydolls: An Imperfect Adventure
It may be slightly unfair to point it out, given the age range that Uglydolls – both the toys and this game adaptation – appeal to, but the subtitle ‘An […]
Review: Evercade
Since launching in May 2020, accompanied by a good selection of software, Blaze Entertainment’s cartridge-based, retro handheld console, the Evercade, seems to have been well received by the retro gaming […]
Review: Disc Ninja
Out now on: Oculus Quest (and Early Access on Steam) There’s something to be said for the arcade simplicity of many VR titles, where a game can be built around […]
Review: Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 (2020)
Namco have been putting together compilations of their various arcade and console titles for a very long time; ever since the very first Namco Museum title arrived on the PlayStation […]
The Music of Eldest Souls: An Interview with Sergio Ronchetti
“I remember playing Dead Space and just thinking ‘why is it so scary?’,” Sergio Ronchetti tells me of the first time he realised that someone must have been responsible for […]
Review: Eldest Souls
Available Now on PC, PlayStation, Switch & Xbox (Xbox version tested) It’s pretty much a given these days that any game with ‘Souls’ in the title is going to be […]
Preview: Billiards Dungeon
Combining two of my favourite things – fantasy themed dungeon delves and the game of Pool – Billiards Dungeon looks like a game that’s going to be incredibly fun. One […]
