Saturday, May 30, 2026

Game Reviews

WarGroove review – a forensic recreation of some all-time classics •...

Halfway through playing WarGroove, which is secretly a pretty odd game, a thought occurred to me which turned out, the more I considered it,...

Piranha Plant Is Now Available In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

  Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's 2.0.0 update just went live and, with surprisingly little fanfare or announcement, Piranha Plant is also part of the update....

Kingdom Hearts 3 review – a grand finale that’s both torturous...

By my reckoning, there are 238 cutscenes in Kingdom Hearts 3. If that sounds like a lot for a game of around 30-40 hours,...

Slay the Spire review – a gorgeous blend of dungeon-crawler and...

In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself faced with a choice: eat the banana or eat the donut? The...

Videl and Jiren Are The First To Join Dragon Ball FighterZ...

  Jiren and Videl are the first two characters to enter the Dragon Ball FighterZ fray in 2018. Bandai Namco accidentally let threw up a trailer...

Yoku’s Island Express review – a pinball/platforming hybrid that works brilliantly...

You could probably build a fairly tedious argument around the premise that video games have two key parental figures. There's pen-and-paper RPGs on one...

Wild West Online review – western MMO tragically wastes its potential...

You'd think that a few more hours out in the wilds - trotting through the scrub, listening to the world as dusk spills across...

PixelJunk Monsters 2 review – a colourful treat and a workout...

Tower defence games are tricky things, I reckon. At their worst - and their worst is generally still pretty entertaining - they can feel...

Cultist Simulator review – a crabbed but intoxicating bargain with otherworldly...

  Cultist Simulator is about forbidden knowledge, forgotten histories and ill-advised pacts with entities who aren't so much gods as unsettling cosmic frequencies, felt rather...

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection review

Now this is more like it. Last May, still uncertain about the prospects of Nintendo's Switch, Capcom tentatively tested the waters with Ultra Street...

Vampyr review – a beautiful premise wasted in this bland action...

Great Gothic horror is all about colour, or lack thereof. The black of night, the white of bone, the monochrome of a gloomy cobblestoned...

Onrush review – an eccentric and excellent spin on the arcade...

Bacon cornflakes. That's what Gareth Wilson said of Blur as he pondered the reasons where it all went wrong for one of the last...
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