Absolver isn’t a Dark Souls game. It seems wise to state that up front, because for its first few hours Absolver manages a very good impression of a Dark Souls game, albeit one that has traded its Covenants for martial art schools, its “jolly [...]
Sometimes it’s good to take a step back. Naughty Dog’s Uncharted games were conceived as lighthearted, almost flippant action spectaculars, as knowingly pulpy as their chief inspiration, Indiana Jones. But they ended up with baggage that Indy [...]
If Housemarque has proven anything in its 22 years crafting modern-day arcade classics, it’s that it has exceptional taste in games. Super Stardust cribbed gleefully from Asteroids, while Super Stardust HD folded a little Robotron into the mix, and [...]
It’s probably unfair to question the very reason for a game’s existence, but with Volition’s purple-hued Saints Row spin off, Agents Of Mayhem, it’s hard to think of anything else. Agents of Mayhem Developer: Volition [...]
Undertale is a game all about endings, so it’s fitting that its console release comes towards the tail-end of one particular piece of hardware’s life. If this is a finale of sorts for Sony’s PlayStation Vita, then it’s a [...]
Bloober Team’s Layers of Fear gave you a 19th century mansion in a state of continual, terrible reassembly, its furnishings switching places behind your back, its rooms expanding and contracting like the chambers of a heart. Observer gives you an [...]
It was always better back in the day, wasn’t it? Over the years I’ve collected all sorts of F1 paraphernalia – pocketfuls of discarded rubber picked up from just off the racing line of Eau Rouge during a post-race track invasion, photos [...]
War of the Chosen’s first mission plays out exactly the same as in the original XCOM 2, which caught me a little by surprise. After being treated to a brand new intro cinematic that partly rewrites how the Commander is rescued in the opening moments [...]
