Those lovely people at Prima Games are constantly spoiling gamers with their awesome array of game guides and console accompaniment books.
When the NES Classic came out Prima lavished gamers with a nostalgic masterpiece which looked back at the NES Classic games with love and attention to detail. That book is a must in your collection if you can get your hands on one do it now!www.amazon.com
Now the SNES Classic has landed and we’re all going Super Nintendo Super Crazy the Prima Games guys have followed up the NES book with an awesome SNES book.
Echo is a new third-person stealth-adventure video game that from the studio Ultra Ultra, a team of developers who are based in Copenhagen and formed from ex-staff of IO Interactive (Hitman series).
When you begin to dig into the SEGA console timeline you realise that the amount of consoles and add ons was an absolute mess!
You have to give it to SEGA though, they went out with a massive bang of consoles and add ons. In order to try and make sense of it all I decided to write it all down and then create an illustarted timeline to show you all. So here it is, hopefully you all enjoy!
The Solus Project - PS4 As I tread carefully through a particularly claustrophobic cave system I begin to fear that I may become dehydrated any time soon as I can see my hydration levels drop. I then come across an opening area of the system and I breathe an audible sigh of relief as I spot the trickling water coming from the ceiling cracks. I hastily make a bee line for the water and take the time to refill my water bottle just in case I get caught short again on my next branch of exploration.
This is a typical spell of game-play in The Solus Project and it's the thing that keeps me playing to find out what is going on and how my character will fare at the end of this mission to report back my status to the mission control.
The Darkside Detective is a 2D point and click adventure video game from developers Spooky Doorway (a very apt name for the Halloween season) that follows the adventures of Twin Lakes’ finest supernatural police squad, Francis McQueen and his sidekick Dooley.
It is a charming, snappy and surprisingly funny selection of episodes (the game comes with all six episodes included) that I heartily recommend for all the family.
The game consists of six ‘micro-adventures’ (the developers’ own words) that make up case files for the protagonist, Francis McQueen.
"Sony just announced at Paris Games Week that The Gardens Between, the adventure puzzle game by The Voxel Agents, is coming to PlayStation 4 in Q3 2018.
Back in the time before FIFA ruled the soccer video games landscape PES was the game of choice. The fun that the game brought me is incomparable to the sterile relationship I have with the current crop of FIFA reproductions we get handed every year. I have said it before and it's most definitely true, the fun of football games has been drained out of the genre and replaced with a desire from developers to create a realistic as possible product. The problem with this is that realism brings boring to the table. The fact is that 80% of real football matches are actually tactical boredom. Just look at the recent Liverpool vs Man Utd match to see how an overhyped product generally fails to deliver on the media frenzy from Sky and various media sources. Now, why the heck would you want to spend your time playing a football game that makes it as hard to score in a game as it is in real life? It's just not fun, is it?
I like to think that it doesn’t matter whether I’m good at fighting video games or not, as long as I have fun; right?
Some of the people I play against in Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat make that really hard to buy into though, and then there is my wife, who still beats me at Tekken.
I love playing the genre though, trying new systems, figuring out styles, learning how different fighters work, but have never mastered the finer techniques.
The first time my college roommate attempted to explain dash cancelling to me I honestly thought my brain was going to implode.
I have gotten way better over the years, even if I still lose a lot and have to take pride in my own style and flashy alternate costumes, but along has come a game that I think many more will appreciate.
I really wanted to like Riskers, all of the ingredients were here for a great game, but sadly it spreads itself too thin to be memorable.
The story that drives Riskers is that you play a garbage collector who finds a briefcase filled with cash, merely days later when you arrive home, you find your brother killed and head off to chase down the assailants.
Coatsink’s cyberpunk RPG Augmented Empire launched in July, exclusive to Samsung Gear VR and now Coatsink have released a mini-documentary featuring the cast which includes the legendary Nick Frost!
Take a peek at it now and let us know what you think...
I’m not going to sugar-coat it, West of Loathing is my single-player game of the year.
I have never played any of Asymmetric Publications’ previous games but I will absolutely be front of the queue for their next release.
West of Loathing is a joyous, hilarious and occasionally touching gem of a game that conjured up feelings that I haven’t had whilst playing a game since The Secret of Monkey Island.
Sensible Soccer has a long and illustrious history and sits in the hearts of 90's gamers like no other football video game from that period ever did. Lots of games tried and failed to replicate the perfect blend of fun and depth that was baked into Sensible Soccer's DNA. In 2017 Jon Hare and co. are back with a next generation of the Sensible Soccer lineage that is looking to reinvoke memories of those heated and frantic 2 player matches that you had with your brothers, mates and family. Sociable Soccer is everybody's favourite second team right now and we're all rooting for the legendary midfield maestro as he comes back for one last go at lifting the cup. Can Sociable recreate the glory days of the golden generation or will it fade like Kick Off Revival did? Let's Kick Off with a Rabona Kick and find out, shall we?