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Talk to any video game fan over 30 about 3D platformers and they're liable to stare wistfully into the middle distance and start mumbling about the 'golden age.' Once Super Mario 64 arrived and codified the form, the decade straddling the millennium delivered a trove of colourful treasures that...

Though the 12th generation of Intel processors have been and gone, they still seem to be finding life in mid to high end Mini PCs. After most recently looking at Geekom's take on a 7000 Series Ryzen system in the A7, we take a step back to see how well the XT12 can fit into their ever-expanding...

Endless Ocean Luminous is a rare treat. We live in a world where the games industry is steadfastly committed to speed. Often it's done through violence and combat, but not always. Even puzzle game developers are on the hunt for ways to make their ideas flow as snappily as possible. And then...

Epyx is one of those old publishers that commands a fearsome reputation today among a very cultish group of retro fans. You may well have heard of some of the company's classics, but in comparison to the likes of Super Mario, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Myst, Zork or Wizardry, the chances are slim...

Though the peak years of the 3D platformer genre were in the late '90s and early 2000s, there's been a bit of a resurgence in interesting new genre entries in recent years. Titles such as Glyph and Lunistice have shown that smaller platforming projects can be just as compelling as the more...

It's not difficult to make spiders scary. Many people are frightened of them anyway, even when they're normal sized and not reproducing at an apocalyptic pace. In this way, the new French film Infested is playing the horror-movie game on easy mode: All it needs are a few hairy legs and a cluster...

El Shaddai is an artistic endeavour in the same vein as Rez or Thatgamecompany's Journey, taking action genre norms and weaving them into an avant-garde, visual tour de force. Anyone familiar with the ill-fated Clover Studio, a Capcom subsidiary that started out in 2004 developing for the...

Since 2018 Kospet has been progressively iterating smart watches into something increasingly more desirable. Today I have the Kospet Tank T3 Ultra to try out and if first impressions are anything to go by, I think we have a strong contender for the top spot when it comes to affordability...

When picturing a Soulslike, Another Crab's Treasure isn't what comes to mind. This underwater adventure through a world of cartoon crabs is a far cry from the gritty dark fantasy aesthetic popular in the genre, but that helps it stand out. Even while upholding genre traditions like somber...

Library of Ruina is less than the sum of its parts. While this visual novel's dialog sets up a well-established, deep world with interesting characters, its talky repetitiveness eschews plenty of opportunities to make the most of what it's trying to set up. And even with a compelling, card-based...

If a thousand years from now, the sun has not exploded and people are still discussing movies that were released a millennium prior, one can only wonder what they will say about the strange sci-fi franchise that was Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Beginning with Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire...

The SaGa titles are part of a series that started life as Final Fantasy Legend, named to capitalise on Square's blossoming juggernaut. Despite being separate creative endeavours, the two franchises have grown up together. While never achieving the superstar status of its sibling, SaGa has carved...

Many games can get away with slightly sketchy performance if the gameplay experience is a bit more laidback and relaxed (or 'cinematic', if you like). Others, however, like Slave Zero X, which focus on blistering combat and stylish visuals, can be almost impossible to recommend if their...

Stellar Blade very much wants to be a merger of NieR: Automata and the Soulslike formula. It's a flashy science fiction romp through a decrepit, decaying world, and the ambience is certainly going to be familiar to NieR fans. It's also undeniably well-made. However, for all the comparisons...

How can a character as gruff and stoic as Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba) carry a whole TV show? The answer lies in a loveable, dim-witted human companion: Wade Whipple (Adam Pally). Wade may play second banana to James Marsden's Tom Wachowski in the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, but the new...

The dungeon crawl has been one of the most enduring genres of all. The original Wizardry – the game that essentially launched and popularised the genre, turns 45 next year. It'll be well and truly ready for a mid-life crisis. In the years since we have seen so many classics – Might & Magic...

Can you ever truly have too much of a good thing? If you're a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, this question must have sprung to mind at least once in recent years. Because in truth, the good things have been coming thick and fast. 2022 brought arguably the series' best beat 'em up ever in...

"Game Over". If you've ever played a video game, you've seen that ominous message appear on your screen a thousand times. If it's not the player that's being killed, then it's the countless hordes of enemies, from Mario joyfully jumping on Goombas to Kratos tearing through whatever god has...

Atari has had a very interesting few years, publishing a critically acclaimed 50th-anniversary collection in the form of a playable documentary, the 'Recharged' series of neo-retro revivals, and a handful of unique reinventions of its classic IPs. Lunar Lander Beyond from Cris Tales developer...

Listen, if you're of a certain vintage, one of the standout summer holiday movies of your youth will undoubtedly have been Disney's excellent Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Back in those terrible and endlessly cruel times we didn't have all your fancy CGI smothering the life out of every frame, you...