Trust Toby Fox to have the greatest Halloween trick of all prepared for us: teasing an upcoming Undertale-related announcement on the same day as Nintendo announces a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate di…
The Easy Way or the Heart Way – A Kirby: Star Allies Review
I can hopefully say without being met with too much snorting in derision that I am a fan of Kirby games; for such a simple, under-designed character many see it as comparable to saying you’re a fan of…
Five Best and Worst Owls in Gaming
Owls. Beastmasters of the sky. Progenitors of the phrase “silent but deadly.” The inspiration for awful Batman villains and disappointers of muggles worldwide. Known for their fearsome talons and abil…
Smash Ultimate DLC Predictions: 3rd party party
So Smash Ultimate has only been out just under two weeks, and we’ve already had our collective minds spattered all over the walls with the announcement that Joker (The Persona 5 protagonist, not the S…
Demon’s Crystals Review – Twin-Schtick
Enter the Gungeon is a game I’ve been playing a lot of recently: creative and varied ideas, tight responsive controls, intelligent design throughout – it really is an almost perfect twin-stick s…
Forgotton Anne Review – Forgive and Forgotling
Or to give its full title, “adventures in making my spell-checker really upset.” Forgotton Anne is a game that’s really been flummoxing me about how to approach a review of it – I couldn’t even …
The Jackbox Party Pack 5 Review – Where There’s Joke There’s Fire
The Jackbox Party Packs have become something of an institution among my friendship groups in the last couple of years; entertaining a party of 5 or more people, that therefore cannot be quelled by Ma…
Piranha Plant is Really Important in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Yes, you heard me right. The most important lesson from yesterday’s Nintendo Direct isn’t we got the final two characters for the release version of the game – the man with muscles like a meltdo…
The Swindle Review – A Stitch in Crime
The F.B.I and cartoon character Dick Tracy, originators of the idiom “crime doesn’t pay,” were clearly idiots not familiar with modern video games. Given they came up with it in 1927 and were fictiona…
The NES Library on Nintendo Switch Online, Ranked
The Nintendo Switch’s online service finally launched last week to much fanfare (or furore, in many cases), and front and centre among its advantages – other than getting it for roughly £4 a yea…
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