Video Game Reviews, Articles
As part of SEGA’s 60th anniversary, the company has been pumping out some big sales and a few free minigames. One of them is a cancelled Golden Axe sequel, dubbed Golden Axed (ha), originally developed by Australian developers Eccentric Ape….
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As part of SEGA’s 60th anniversary, the company has been pumping out some big sales and a few free minigames. One of them is a Streets of Rage 2-inspired beat-’em-up side-scroller set in the Yakuza universe. In Streets Of Kamurocho,…
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Sonic’s second outing is currently free on Steam. Dr. Eggman (aka Dr. Robotnik) is once again turning innocent critters into robot slaves, and is forcing them to create his latest evil invention, the Death Egg! With his flying fox buddy…
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What is it? Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a Metroidvania platformer developed by Game Atelier and published by FDG Entertainment. It is a spiritual sequel to the Wonder Boy series. Our hero, Jin, discovers his wacky Uncle Nabu…
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Dungeon of The Endless is but another PC-to-Switch port that features an entourage cast of prisoners crash-landing on a planet, deep within the confines of its sub-basement. With limited supplies and power, you gotta explore each room and transport a…
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A video game focused around a combat-based gameplay loop, with a gripping main plotline and dozens of side quests and activities? Sounds pretty great, doesn’t it? I fell in love with the “idea” of Yakuza 0 long before I even…
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What is it? Yakuza Zero is an action adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega in 2015. It was ported to the West in 2017, and on PC a year later. Set in the late…
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The sequel to an episode recorded over two years ago, Alan, Paco and Lee are tasked with choosing some of their favourite video game scores or music tracks (along with some worthy mentions if it gets too hard to choose!)….
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After Tetris came out, plenty of game companies wanted to add their own spin to the falling block puzzle sub-genre. SEGA’s answer was Columns, released in 1990 for the Mega Drive (or Genesis). The original idea was made by a…
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Full-motion video (FMV) was all the rage during the nineties. While games like Command & Conquer fed players lore and objectives with campy video sequences that were compressed and fitted onto CDs, some games were almost-entirely made up of live-action…
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Factfile Written By: Blake Harris Published by: Atlantic Books Released: 2014 Version: Audiobook Ruminations If the 2000’s have come to be dominated by the tussle between Sony and Microsoft for gaming supremacy, the battleground of the late 1980’s and…
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Decorating characters in video games can be a lot of fun. While armour and camouflage have their practical uses, it can be great fun to suit up a character or avatar in some sweet-looking gear to help them stand out…
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With the announcement of the PlayStation Classic, due to launch in December, Sony have formally entered the retrogaming scene. They join Nintendo, who, whilst far from the first (I had a plug and play of classic arcade games as far…
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Factfile Developed by: Big Evil Corporation Ltd Published by: Big Evil Corporation Ltd Released: 2018 Format played: Sega Megadrive / PC Ruminations When is a retro game not a retro game? When it’s released in 2018, I guess. Tanglewood is…
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Dynamite Dux Factfile Developed by: Sega AM2 Published by: Sega Released: 1988 Format played: Sega Master System Um…okay. Ostensibly Dynamite Dux us a side scrolling beat ’em up but frankly that hardly does justice to all the crazy going on…
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