Reviews

REVIEW // 007 First Light is the best Bond game since Goldeneye

I’ll admit to never having been a huge Bond fan, having caught most of the Daniel Craig films as they were released and retroactively dabbled in the Pierce Brosnan era, but never really engaging with the cinema franchise. But the video games, those I fuck with. Goldeneye 007 is an obvious pick, as influential as

REVIEW // Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is more discovery than direction

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island remains one of my favourite games of all time, despite never owning a SNES and playing it all in disparate chunks at an Aunt’s house. Given the prestige of a mainline Mario platformer, it brimmed with creativity and subtle challenge, a member of the cohort of 32-bit Nintendo joints

REVIEW // Slots & Daggers brings its bite-sized, roguelike game of luck to PS5

There are quite a few parallels to be drawn between certain flavours of rogue-ish video game and the psychological tricks used to compel human beings into habitual gambling. And there are certainly many folks much smarter than I am offering insight and conducting research into the how, why, and whether or not we should be

REVIEW ROUND-UP // Yoshi and the Mysterious Book has critics hooked on every page

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is out this week on Thursday, May 21 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2, and the reviews have begun rolling in. As it currently stands, the game is currently sitting on a pretty healthy aggregated score of a clean 80 on Metacritic. While we don’t yet have a review up for this one (it’s coming!),

REVIEW // LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is the best LEGO game yet

It’s been a full four years since TT Games gave us LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and while LEGO has, in that time, experimented with various other ways to deliver a LEGO video game, it’s great to be back in the hands of the studio that really shifted the paradigm starting with 2005’s LEGO