A decent soundtrack and precise input recognition are all you really need to make a good rhythm game. The musical style, presentation, narrative framing, and method of interaction are all important details, too, but it’s those first two that will make or break any music game. It’s easy to get …
It’s coming close to five years since Bayonetta 3 was first revealed, and just shy of a year since the announcement of a 2022 launch window. The lack of new details since then—despite numerous summoning circles on Twitter before every Nintendo Direct—has caused some skepticism about whether we’d actually see …
Escape room puzzle game and arcade-style shoot ‘em up don’t exactly seem like they’d fit together. But that’s exactly what makes such genre mashups so fascinating: when you find (or create) common ground between such disparate influences, the results can be an unorthodox delight, even if there’s a bit of …
If you enjoyed watching Pepe play for Real Madrid, you’re going to love Mario Strikers: Battle League Football. The matches are brutal, tackles are rough and the on-pitch breakdowns are ever present. Fortunately, beneath the chaos and theatrics, there lies a surprisingly entertaining football game that can be enjoyed by …
The start of a new month means there’s a new issue of Indiepocalypse out! The monthly bundle, curated by PIZZAPRANKS, collects an assortment of indie games that are experimental and unusual, and Indiepocalypse #30 is no exception: this month we’ve got coping dragons, games about self-reflection, a one-shot tabletop RPG, …
It looks like the dark days when Sony’s approach to classic games was “Why would anyone want to play this?” might finally be over. With the new PlayStation Plus and the Classics Catalogue that’s included in the highest tier, a handful of games from older consoles are finally playable on …
Red Earth. Released in arcades in 1996 as the showcase for Capcom’s new CPS3 arcade platform, this somewhat eccentric fighting game soon slipped into relative obscurity. A quirky little fighting RPG with just four unfamiliar characters was always going to struggle to step out of Street Fighter II‘s shadow, and …
The revamped, tiered PlayStation Plus is now available in New Zealand, meaning subscribers have access to hundreds of downloadable games. While PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 games make up the bulk of that number, of particular note for anyone who likes to look back a little further is the Classics …
Metal Max Xeno isn’t something I’d expect to see getting a major overhaul. The original is just a few years old, met with middling reviews, and never really made much of a splash despite an intriguing premise and some unique ideas. A rebirth might be just what it needed, though: …
After OlliOlli World introduced the world its wonderfully outlandish skate-themed fantasy world, it seems only fitting that the first DLC, Void Riders, should revolve around an alien invasion. So when a UFO crashes into Burntrock and a bunch of odd-looking creatures come out in search of the raddest skaters to …
