Reviews

Total War: Three Kingdoms – The Furious Wild Review — Welcome to the jungle

Total War: Three Kingdoms – The Furious Wild releases on September 3 via Steam. I must admit that I was gosh darn excited when it was originally announced that we’d have an expansion that focuses on the Nanman and Meng…

Marvel’s Avengers review

As the Marvel’s Avengers campaign ends, to be replaced by samey missions, it reminds me of the dual identity of so many superheroes. Avengers straps on its tightest, glossiest spandex for the campaign and dazzles with its moves, but once…

Team Sonic Racing Review – Gotta Go-Kart Fast

Team Sonic Racing is a wonderfully varied, fast and frenetic kart racer that, while a little derivative on the surface, successfully carves out its own space with a focus on team racing. Although Sonic, Tails and the gang might not carry…

NHL 21 Review – Score

EA normally releases new NHL games during the Stanley Cup playoffs when the sporting world is focused on hockey, but complications due to COVID-19 led to a delay for NHL 21. The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup weeks ago,…

Disc Room review

Need to know What is it? A 2D game about evading deadly spinning discs.Expect to pay $15/£12Developer Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Terri Vellmann and DoseonePublisher Devolver DigitalReviewed on Windows 10, Intel Core i5-9600K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 2070 SuperMultiplayer? Nope, but there are leaderboardsOut: October 22Link: Official…

Review: Weighty combat and an engrossing world make Mortal Shell a deadly treat

Image via Cold Symmetry Souls-like games, named after FromSoftware’s Demon Souls and Dark Souls series, are becoming more common as the genre matures. Often painfully difficult but deeply rich in lore and combat, the action RPG offshoot has grown to…

The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos review — Wacky, weird, wearisome

The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos, a turn-based tactical RPG from Artefacts Studio and Dear Villagers, releases tomorrow via Steam. Truth be told, I was a little bit apprehensive when Andrew Farrell initially asked me to review it….

HP Reverb G2 review — Crisp visuals hampered by tracking flaws

(credit: HP) After the surprising interest from the gaming community with the original unit, HP and Microsoft knew they had to step it up with their new HP Reverb G2 virtual reality headset. Built for gamers from the ground up,…

Remothered: Broken Porcelain review — Run and hide

Terrible news. Editor-in-chief and (mostly) benevolent PCI overlord Cam wouldn’t let me write the line “I’ll finish this review when they finish the game” and then call it a day. Sorry, everyone; you’re getting a full Remothered: Broken Porcelain review…

The Awesome Adventures Of Captain Spirit – Mind Over Matter

Warning: This review contains minor spoilers for Life Is Strange and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a short Life is Strange episode set before the upcoming Life Is Strange 2, and it doesn’t cost…

The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon review — Money, intrigue, and insane drugs

Danger, corporate intrigue, and a chance to make a ton of bits are all the hallmarks of the first DLC expansion for The Outer Worlds, Peril on Gorgon. The expansion drops you into a film noir-style mystery. A severed hand…

WWE 2K Battlegrounds review — Lots of yowies, not enough wowies

I reviewed WWE 2K20 last year and, needless to say, I was severely disappointed. It was, for lack of a better term, a botch of epic proportions. Bugs and glitches riddled the title, and numerous criticisms and complaints were levied…