PS4 Game Reviews

There are some game developers who are known for creating a single type of game so well that it’s almost impossible…

If you were to imagine kart racers as dinosaurs, Mario Kart would be a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This monster franchise has held…

Racing games based on the MotoGP motorcycle class have had a long and fairly bumpy ride. Their humble beginnings can be…

Grand Theft Auto has quite a lot to answer for. There’s only so many times a series can influence an entire…

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Kerbal. Its five-year mission: to attempt to create a spacecraft…

What’s your favourite JRPG franchise? This is a question that provokes fierce debate among many lovers of the genre. It’s hard…

Post-apocalypse is potentially an incredibly rich setting. The world could end in so many delightfully varied ways that to keep returning…

There’s quite a fierce debate among us here regarding whether snooker is a sport or a game. Some of us believe…

Zombies aren’t exactly a new concept. Debatably, the first ever zombie movie was Victor Halperin’s 1932 opus White Zombie, but with…

There was a time when every multiplayer game that darkened the doorways of the major consoles had to have a couch…

Norse mythology is fertile ground for video games. All the drama and violence of poetic Norse sagas translates perfectly to the…

As a fighting game franchise, Dead or Alive has been unfairly overlooked across its twenty-three year (!) existence. The series has…

From Pacific Rim to MechWarrior, pop culture has a justifiable fascination with human-piloted mechs. Japanese anime is replete with mech pilots…

Remember Night Trap? If you don’t, it was an “interactive movie game” released in 1992, back in the Sega CD era.…

Motorcycle racing is at once terrifying and exhilarating as a prospect. There’s nothing more seat-of-the-pants than hurtling through open terrain on…

When additional characters are added to a fighting game, it must be an absolute nightmare to balance them. So much development…

Keeping a franchise going through multiple console generations must be a mammoth task. Gaming franchises come and go according to the…

It’s an unfortunate fact of gaming life that some games are overshadowed by their circumstances. Duke Nukem Forever may be a…

It’s taken a long time for the visual novel to become well-regarded in the mainstream Western press. Sterling examples of the…

In today’s triple-A gaming world, developers are asking themselves the same question over and over again: is it better to do…

We all need a bit of indulgence every now and then. And in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, what better time…

Motorbike lovers have had a rough ride when it comes to video games. It’s not that their favourite sport is ill-represented;…

Variety, it has been said, is the spice of life. Nothing’s ever fun if it’s monotonous, and throwing something unexpected into…

Singing in social situations is a tricky beast. If you’re an extrovert, you probably relish the moments when your inner diva…

On paper, a multiplayer online experience based in the Fallout world seems like a no-brainer. After all, these post-apocalyptic adventures always…

It’s usually in the smaller moments that we really start to appreciate what a video game can achieve. Sure, many video…

It’s hard to think of video games without Call of Duty. This is a series that’s been with us since way…

Consider, if you will, the strange and somewhat lost world of the official tie-in game. These ill-fated titles have been through…

Rally racing is possibly one of the most obvious disciplines to adapt into a video game. It’s quite easy for most…

Ongoing sports franchises in video games can seem like a bit of an odd proposition. On the one hand, of course,…

Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is a pleasantly packaged, adequately challenging side-scrolling beat ‘em up from Pocket Trap. With simple controls, rewarding…