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 // 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

REVIEW // In Forza Horizon 6’s Japan, every route is the scenic one

There’s something special about the Forza Horizon games. It’s a rare series that’s trying to be almost all things to almost all people and actually pulls it off. Forza Horizon has always been a place where people who like playing video games with cars would have a good time, whether they wanted to be playing

REVIEW // Two Point Museum’s Arty Facts DLC is a (brush) stroke of genius

Two Point Museum is without a doubt the strongest entry in Two Point Studios’ run of delightfully-silly management sims so far, and it’s one that I’ve been yearning to revisit ever since seeing out everything it had to offer at launch. While there has already been some new content added to the game between then