Wargroove (PC) Review: What Is It Good Forgroove?
If you ever had a Nintendo GBA or DS and didn’t play Advance Wars, then you seriously missed out – turn-based strategy with a slightly cutesy aesthetic, pleasing mechanics and half-decent enemy AI. It was a great game, reminiscent of…
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Just Cause 4 (PC) Review: More And Less Of The Same
So it’s outing number 4 for Rico Rodriguez, is it? Another dictator, another large map, another unbreakable shoulder joint – alright, let’s do this. Do you need the plot? Okay, here we go – there’s a dictator on this island…
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City of Brass (Switch Review): Needs a good polish
City of Brass follows a similar pattern to many independent games released these days; developers on a hit game break off and form their own studio to start an ambitious project with great ideas behind it. Unfortunately for the team…
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Bowling For Soup, 02 Academy, Bristol, 28/11/2018
Christmas came early as Texan pop punks Bowling For Soup brought their ‘Almost Christmas’ tour to the O2 Academy Bristol, on Wednesday night. The festive fun kicked off with Dallas power pop prodigies Not Ur Girlfrenz, wowing the crowd by…
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A, SWX, Bristol, 17/11/18
The collected 30 somethings were partying like it was 2002 at SWX as post-punk rockers A returned to Bristol to play the whole of their seminal album Hi-Fi Serious. An evening of early 00’s rock appreciation kicked off with Essex…
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Aven Colony (PS4) Review: I Don’t Want to Live on This Planet Anymore
If, like me, you feel that building management sims peaked during the halcyon days of Bullfrog’s Theme- series (Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper etc) and the many Sim- games released by Maxis (Sim City, Sim Tower and the mighty Sim Ant etc), Aven Colony may well be right up your…
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The Flame in the Flood: Complete Edition review – Nomad by Fate
When The Molasses Flood first released The Flame in the Flood last year on Xbox One and PC, chances are they never thought that the post-apocalyptic survival sim depicting a US in which global warming has made rivers burst their…
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Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 Review: Turtle Destruction Wave
The heart of a good Dragon Ball game is its combat. I can safely say that fighting in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 ticks all the right boxes; it’s flashy, fluid (running at a consistent 60fps) and unleashing flurries of strikes right…
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Seasons After Fall Review: Fantastic Mr Fox
Do you ever wish you had the power to change the seasons instantly? What about possessing the body of a fox? Even if you’ve never had either of those two (admittedly quite niche) power fantasies, Seasons After Fall might be…
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Overcooked! (PS4) Review: Are you cookin’ at me?
Cooking has never been so fashionable. “Clean eating” is everywhere. Masterchef is on at least four channels simultaneously 24/7. Instagram is a hive of heavily filtered pictures of artisanal quinoa in handcrafted bowls. With Overcooked!, have we finally reached peak cooking?…
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Project Zero:Maiden of the Black Water review: Moistened bint
Like the fetid stench from a long abandoned well, as unsettling as what looks like claw marks near its opening and damp footprints leading away from it towards your holiday cabin the woods. Project Zero (Fatal Frame in the US): Maiden…
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California Screaming: We talk to Yager’s Issac Ashdown about Dead Island 2
Back in September, your intrepid reporter took a trip to the noisy, neon apocalypse of the EGX Expo in old London Town. In between playing the latest super realistic queuing simulators, the occasional demo for next years AAA releases (including…
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Darksiders and Deadfall Adventures: We talk to Nordic games Martin Kreuch
Some time ago, your intrepid adventurers took a trip to the National Geographic store in London to have a look at Nordic game’s new title based on the works of H Rider Haggard – Deadfall Adventures. Whilst we were there…
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