A lot of the messaging around Denshattack! has gone to some effort to align the game with a lot of iconic 2000s extreme sports titles, throwing around hooks like “Tony Hawk with trains,” but it also bears a lot of comparison to the Jet Set Radio games. Not only in the obvious ways, like its […]
If I’m ever asked for recommendations for great VR games, which sadly happen less and less lately, it’s never long before the Moss games are brought up. Starting life on the PlayStation VR but quickly spreading to other platforms along with a sequel, Moss’s dioramic world, expressive protagonist and unique split between first and third-hand
D-topia imagines a world where humanity has long since hit its lowest lows, the kind required to prompt a bold new direction for the future. That new direction is the Utopia Project, created to bring “The greatest happiness to the greatest number of people” by leveraging AI, genetic engineering, synthetic environments and social algorithms, and
There are two titles I played on my Nintendo 3DS more than any other, and both just happened to be rhythm games. The first, which I reckon I’d sunk quadruple-digit hours into by the end, was Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (I’m including the sequel in that number). But whenever that threatened to become tiresome, I’d switch
As I admitted in my early preview of Star Fox, Nintendo’s Switch 2-exclusive remake of the 1996 Nintendo 64 original, this new iteration is actually my very first playthrough of the game on any platform. This presents a rather unique proposition for the remake, where a lack of personal nostalgia or familiarity with the source
After three full playthroughs of Xenoblade Chronicles, a game that wowed me on the Nintendo Wii, kept me occupied on the New Nintendo 3DS and then got its hooks into me once again on the last-generation Switch, I thought it was time for me to put down the Monado. Cue the surprise release of Xenoblade
Developer doinksoft has made something of a habit of crafting highly reminiscent games that, upon further inspection, reveal themselves to be sparkling with personality and hinged on just one or two potent quirks. With Gato Roboto it was mixing vehicular action with precision platforming in a cat-driven mech suit, while Gunbrella had the courage to
Already one of the best video games of 2025, The Drifter is an Australian export that (unsurprisingly) picked up a wealth of accolades – including Game of the Year – at multiple awards shows after its initial release on PC. Among everything that the game did superbly, one of its great achievements was offering multiple
