Month: May 2022

Ratalaika Games have, over the past few years, made a name for themselves in the Xbox and achievement hunting communities. Thanks largely in part to their cheap games and very easy completions. HellGunner, out today on Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, is their latest offering. But it does come with a very minor caveat: unlike
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Since 2018, Paratopic has been hidden away in the back of horror aficionados’ minds that played it on PC and Nintendo Switch: The kind of slow-burner game that lingers long in the mind after its completion. Now, home console gamers can finally experience it too, as Paratopic releases today on Xbox. Paratopic is an “experimental”
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Over the many decades that I’ve been gaming, I’ve taken in a whole host of shoot ‘em ups. Fixed screens have come and gone, side scrollers have ruled the universe and vertical scrolling flyers have continued to draw us back; the latter of which saw optimum gaming goodness reached with the launches of Sky Force
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The humble brick breaker; chances are that most game developers will have created some form of a brick breaker during their career. The simplicity of them is only overshadowed by their fun. And the developers at EntwicklerX clearly must be enjoying creating them, as Radon Break isn’t their first brick breaker. Find out how this
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Inspector Redfern, the lead character of RICO London, clearly isn’t the fun-loving sort. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, and rather than take advice from Prince and ‘party like she’s out of time’, she’s headed to a tower block to disrupt an arms deal, against direct orders from her superior. She’s working her way up the
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It’s not an auspicious start. Chefy-Chef sounds like it’s been named by the same people who voted for Boaty McBoatface. It’s published by Ratalaika, who don’t often punch above a 3.5/5, and it costs less than a large popcorn at the cinema (we live in an expensive area). Not that price should matter, but you
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eFootball – Konami’s rebrand of the long-running Pro Evolution Soccer series – could have signaled a bright new beginning for football games. Shifting to the more modern Unreal Engine 4 and ditching annual full-priced games for a free-to-play model with promises of sizeable content additions and a “pay for what you want” structure felt like
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Plenty has already been said about why 2013’s The Stanley Parable is so phenomenal – so much, in fact, that one section of 2022’s The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is a literal shrine to all of the praise and accolades that have been deservedly heaped upon it. To prattle on further about how it cleverly
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Back in 2013, the original Rogue Legacy added a revolutionary twist to the standard roguelike formula: Instead of losing everything upon death, you’re able to spend your currency on permanent upgrades that make each successive run just a little bit easier. This kickstarted an entire subgenre called roguelites, which now includes such incredible games as
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If you’re a fan of classic samurai movies, there’s a lot to love about Trek to Yomi. It’s a katana-swiping side-scroller with a worthwhile story that does a magnificent job of distilling old school Japanese cinema into video game form. But while it never stopped blowing me away aesthetically, the things you’re actually doing in
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I’ve never seen a small spin-off game meet my expectations this comprehensively before. Fun, short-lived, slightly repetitive, yet leaving me interested to know more, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising was exactly how I pictured it. Releasing a companion game before the main game – in this case the upcoming Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, is certainly an unusual
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The latest entry in the long-running Syberia franchise is heading to the Nintendo Switch family of systems later this year. Syberia: The World Before is currently available on PC with console versions coming at a later date this year. The news was confirmed by Syberia director and lead writer Lucas Lagravette in a recent edition
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PUBG Mobile is currently featuring a crossover with the classic 90s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, apparently. In a world where Fortnite dominates the battle royale world by featuring crossovers with the biggest western franchises like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, PUBG Mobile has taken a different approach with a collaboration with the mecha anime Neon Genesis
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The name “Gunbrella” might already tell you everything you need to know about Gunbrella, a game in which you wield a gun which is also an umbrella. Announced this past week, it’s a 2D “noir-punk” action game published by Devolver, about floating like Mary Poppins and stinging like, I dunno, a shotgun. You can find
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