Category: Articles and Reviews

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – Review

    Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 – Review

    The Spider-Man’s (Spider-Men? Spider-People?) are back, this time with a game built for PS5, and boy does that make a difference – but we’ll get to that.

  • Takeshi’s Castle – Review

    Takeshi’s Castle – Review

    Hey, do you remember Takeshi’s Castle? I remember it from the mid-2000s. It took footage of a Japanese gameshow and locked it in an audio recording booth with Red Dwarf’s Craig Charles. Contestants would compete in knockout rounds for a chance to take on Takeshi and win… something. Not sure I ever saw anyone win.…

  • Calico – Review

    Calico – Review

    Calico began life as a KickStarter project which was picked up by Whitehorn Games and Maple Whispering after achieving double its target goal. While previously released on PC, Switch and Xbox, Calico is pawing its way onto PlayStation, and I jumped at the chance to play this magical, cosy adventure.

  • Sonic Superstars – Review

    Sonic Superstars – Review

    Sonic Team has done it again! And by done it again, I mean created a truly mixed bag: a game that’s great in some areas, so good that it almost makes you think Sonic is “back again”, only to sabotage itself with poorly implemented new mechanics and some baffling design decisions.

  • BROK The InvestiGator – Review

    BROK The InvestiGator – Review

    COWCAT’s BROK The InvestiGATOR mixes a lost game style, the point-and-click adventure, with a 2D side-scrolling beat ‘em up (e.g. Streets of Rage). Those who haven’t played point-and-click games will get their chance with this one.

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 – Review

    Baldur’s Gate 3 – Review

    Baldur’s Gate 3… It’s good! It’s better than good! Go get it. End of review. Are you still here? Sigh fine, why is it good? Okay, where to begin…

  • Paradise – Review

    Paradise – Review

    Would you give up a decade of your life for financial stability for the rest of it? This is the question Paradise begins with, offering struggling families an option out of poverty in exchange for an unlived lifetime to be given to the wealthy, providing of course they are a genetic match.

  • Dredge: The Pale Reach – Review

    Dredge: The Pale Reach – Review

    It’s official. Dredge finally has an expansion! We return to the seas for this Eldritch horror cosy sim with its recent update, The Pale Reach.

  • Is Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition the  best asymmetrical game on the market?

    Is Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition the best asymmetrical game on the market?

    Is Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Ecto Edition the best asymmetrical game on the market?