When we talk about musical video games there are a few possible things that can be in discussion. There are games driven purely by music, Guitar Hero and Beat Saber are good examples, or there are games with a strong musical theme, like Hi-Fi Rush and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Music. Keep looking, and you’ll […]
I try my best not to spend too much time comparing one game to another in the context of a review. It tends to get in the way of looking at the game in front of me and assessing it for what it is. But in the case of Beyond Words – a game you
Seeing the title revealed for the first time. Watching those early trailers. Finding out about Donald Glover’s Yoshi casting. Laughing about and then spending AUD $45 on a novelty popcorn bucket that I’ll never put popcorn in. Glen Powell is playing who? These are the things that will stick with me about The Super Mario
South of Midnight has been on my radar since long before it launched for the first time in April last year, but waiting and hoping for it to appear on the platforms appropriate to me has paid off with the game now launching on PlayStation 5 and Switch 2. Having now finally played though the
I’ve been a longtime enjoy of the kind of moody, often satirical, never quite family-friendly breed of 2.5D platformer currently exhibited by the likes of Inside and Little Nightmares, but stretching as far back as something like Abe‘s Odyssey. The kind of game that’s good for a one-and-done weekend playthrough and asks for very little
I feel as if I’m in the minority here, but the Talking Flowers are easily one of my favourite new things to have come out of 2023’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder. There’s something about the disparity between their cutesy, Nintendo-coded look and incredibly straightforward line delivery that really tickles me. In a game where pretty
Now, I’ve never been much of a car person, or into motorsports at all. But I have watched enough Initial D and spent enough time in Tokyo arcades or playing golden-era Need for Speed for Screamer to speak to me. A return from Milestone to its own 90s arcade racing series of the same name,
Crimson Desert is out this week on Friday, March 20 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and the reviews have begun rolling in. As it currently stands, the game is sitting on a pretty healthy aggregated score of 78 on Metacritic. While we don’t have a review up for this one (we’re still a new site!), it’s clear based on
