Years in development, the new Radeon RX Vega line is finally arriving – AMD’s return to the higher-end of GPU performance after concentrating its efforts more on the mainstream and budget sectors of the market. There’s no shortage of [...]
There’s an area in Sonic 2’s Chemical Plant Zone that still has me clutching my chest when I think of it. Tucked towards the end of the second act is a shaft filled with moving blocks, sliding around in clumps of four to create a precarious [...]
The original Nidhogg was a great example of minimalist elegance. Messhof’s two-player competitive fencing game shaved the one vs one fighting game to its core with only two buttons (jump and attack) and a single game mode wherein each player ran [...]
Two Yakuza games within eight months? Maybe 2017 isn’t so bad after all. Kiwami isn’t a new game, however, but a remake – a sweeping visual overhaul of the 2005 original, with a number of systemic and narrative tweaks besides, bringing [...]
Few sports labour under as much socio-political baggage as golf. It is a game popularised by royalty, spread by Empire, and moderated by prejudice (exhibit 1/59,674: Lord Moncrieff who, in 1902 decreed that women should only be allowed to play providing [...]
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 [...]
