A brand new franchise offers an unusually positive of view of post-apocalyptic life, with one of the prettiest open world environments ever. If there’s one thing the video games industry needs to encourage more of it, it’s new IP (intellectual properties) – games that aren’t just sequels, spin-offs or licensed tie-ins. So it’s very upsetting […]

Nintendo remakes two old school NES games that have never been released outside of Japan before, so how do they work as Switch titles? Like every Japanese company, there are plenty of Nintendo games that have never been released in the West. In most cases that’s because they’re considered too quirky, too reliant on a […]

After almost two decades a brand new R-Type game is finally a reality but does the old school shooter gameplay still retain its appeal? Whatever madness overtakes publishers when they choose release dates it’s not something that has been at all mitigated by the pandemic. In the last five months there’s been hardly any big […]