GameCentral takes a look at the new Zelda themed Game & Watch, which includes three classic games and some charming fan service. It doesn’t really make sense to talk about Nintendo acting strangely, since that is their default state of being. However, the one thing that’s stuck out to us recently is the peculiar way […]

A mix of theme park and zoo simulator seems like the perfect Jurassic Park game but can this sequel improve on the flawed original? It’s been almost three decades since Jurassic Park felt exciting. Hollywood may have built a financially successful franchise beyond Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, but each subsequent film has felt like a […]

The creator of NieR and Drakengard helms a turn-based RPG with a tabletop aesthetic, where a fantasy world is represented entirely by cards. For many, card-based video games are a Marmite proposition. You’re either fully engrossed in the likes of Hearthstone and Slay The Spire or bemused as to why anyone would choose to play […]

After 16 years the Age Of Empires franchise finally gets a new sequel but is the latest entry too similar to the old ones – or not enough? Following the release of Command & Conquer in 1995 real-time strategy games became the most popular game type on the PC, with every Western publisher in the […]

Konami’s new compilation of classic Castlevanias includes what many consider the best entry ever but how do such old games hold up today? In our recent preview of Metroid Dread we noted how the two games that the Metroidvania franchise is named after are almost unknown to modern gamers. Next month Metroid gets its first […]

The first proper new Metroid game in over a decade celebrates the series’ 35th anniversary and the return of one of Nintendo’s greatest heroes. As far as some fans are concerned Samus Aran is, along with Link and Mario, the third pillar in Nintendo’s trinity of foundational classics. The Metroid games she stars in are […]

A new indie game tries to combine two of Nintendo’s most iconic franchises, using some of the best 2D graphics ever seen. Back in the mid-90s, at the start of the PlayStation era, it seemed like 2D graphics would quickly become obsolete, a forgotten evolutionary step on the road towards photorealistic visuals. And for a […]

GameCentral reviews the latest indie roguelike from Team17 and a game whose basic principles date back over four decades. Roguelikes are so called because of Rogue, an ancient 1980 Unix-based dungeon crawler that had procedurally generated levels and permadeath, making each run a unique and precarious experience. Classics of the genre, like FTL: Faster Than […]

A forgotten classic of the PS3 era, made by veterans of Devil May Cry and Ōkami, makes a surprise return on PC. Video games have reached such a base level of competence, in terms of presentation and gameplay, that it’s relatively easy to release anything as far back as the PlayStation 3 era with only […]

GameCentral reviews EA’s first new sports sequel of the year and finds a game weighted down by the success of Ultimate Team. The Madden series, like many annually released sports sims, has issues. How do you refresh a franchise that has run for decades? How do you innovate when fundamental problems remain? Fans expect a […]