Nostalgia has become big business for the games industry in recent years: Nintendo’s recent mini-versions of the NES and Super NES sold as quickly as they could be manufactured, Bandai Namco resurrected Pac-Man surprisingly convincingly and most
Vampires, as we all know, don’t exist. However, if they did, becoming one might actually have its perks. This atmospheric, distinctly steampunk game from Dontnod, of Life Is Strange fame, offers a means of exploring the dilemmas
When will InGen learn? Jurassic Park went awry before it even opened, the proposed San Diego branch resulted in a T-rex stomping around suburbia, and Jurassic World only managed a few successful years before all hell broke loose. In Jurassic
The Mario Tennis franchise may not be one that generates as much anticipation as the others revolving around the moustachioed plumber. But past entries have been solid enough, offering arcade-style tennis action featuring Nintendo’s familiar cast of
The open-world driving game is a genre that exists because it can: it came about purely because advances in games design technology made it much easier for developers to create huge open worlds. But as
Over the last year or so, Bethesda has been quite the champion of the Switch, bringing both The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the DOOM reboot to Nintendo’s hybrid console. The latest addition to this growing library of AAA
Spare a moment to consider the Wii U’s plight – home to dozens of great games, but played by barely anyone because the console never quite caught on. That disparity between software quality and overall
You might imagine that being easy to describe is a handy attribute for a videogame to have – at least as far as reviewers of said game are concerned. But if a game is too
Poor old Sonic: according to received wisdom, the much-loved blue hedgehog was doomed to remain forever stuck in the 1990s, like an insect in amber. When 3D platform games usurped their two-dimensional side-scrolling forebears in
Persistence by name, persistence by necessity – Sony’s latest virtual reality effort places you in a vast space ship where things have all gone a bit Event Horizon, and putting them right will take many,