Video Game Reviews, Articles
What is it? Desert Child is an arcade hoverbike racing game featuring a lo-fi hip hop soundtrack. You’re cast as a hotshot hoverbike racer set sometime in the future, with the main goal being able to earn enough cash to…
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If the wobbly antics of the little sausage-people from Fall Guys or the grim realities of modern warfare – courtesy of CoD – are wearing thin, fret not because it’s almost September 1st and that’s when the next batch of…
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It’s that time of the month when the lovely people at Sony dig deep into their bottomless games vault and shake loose a couple of nuggets to keep your calloused gaming fingers busy for the forthcoming month and beyond. Unlike…
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I’m not overly sure where to start with Teenage Blob to be honest. I like to start with the positives, but in a game that took me less than half an hour to complete, these are a bit few and…
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Emerging from 2 years of PC early access onto consoles, Memories of Mars is a MMO survival RPG FPS that casts the player as a freshly birthed clone tasked with investigating the disappearance of human settlements on the red planet….
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July’s free games for Playstation Plus subscribers are now available (until August 3) as Sony celebrates 10 years of the service that set the standard for consoles. As always, remember that Plus games can be added to your library if…
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Surfacing from the depths of an energy-drink-fuelled brainstorming fever dream (presumably), Maneater, an open-world action-RPG where the main protagonist is a shark, is a bloodthirsty concept that never really sinks its teeth into its absurd premise, ultimately delivering shallow, repetitive…
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With at least one more film coming, a comic adaptation already in circulation and a rumoured TV series in the works, the real question is why it’s taken so long for John Wick to brute force his way into video…
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Box VR is a no-frills virtual reality training simulator from FitXR. While, strictly speaking, it falls more into the app category than games, Box VR does harness many staples from the rhythm game genre to make it more enjoyable than…
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What is it? House of Golf is an indie mini-golf game set in the various rooms of someone’s house. It has both single player and multiplayer, and plenty of different balls to unlock and courses to play. Platform(s) Switch Pros…
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What is it? Stay is an indie, creepy, pixel art story that sees you play as an unseen man on the other side of a computer monitor. All you do is respond to the computer’s conversation, and try to help…
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Another game on my list to complete this year is Desert Child, an indie racing game which sees you play as a penniless hoverbike rider trying to reach the upper echelons of the racing world and eventually make it from…
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What is it? Save Koch is an indie simulation game that puts you in the role of a mob boss whose life is threatened by an unknown entity. You have to talk to all of your friends, and enemies, and…
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What is it? Headliner: NoviNews is a game that puts you in charge of the main news channel for a country. You can choose to lean to the left, right or centre and your actions on the news has a…
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In a gaming landscape where ‘games as a service’ is a constant AAA developer mantra and the video games that don’t fall under that umbrella are (more often than not) exhausting open-world time-sinks, Journey to the Savage Planet is a…
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