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Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a triumphant piece of 80’s nostalgia
Marvel Cosmic Invasion on Xbox is a vibrant, retro-inspired beat ’em up that combines the chaotic fun of classic arcade brawlers with a fresh tag-team mechanic, delivering a short, challenging and highly entertaining romp through the Marvel…
Mount & Blade II Bannerlord: War Sails – Calradia From The Waves
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord was an amazing addition to the series but now with the War Sails DLC released you can get stuck into naval combat and explore Calradia from a whole new perspective. I’ve been playing the Mount and Blade…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Stonemeier Games newest release: Origin Story!
From Stonemeier Games, the company that brought us familiar game shelf favourites such as Wingspan, Scythe and Tapestry; Origin Story is the newest member of their gaming pantheon. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the world's most easily…
Tozo PE1 – Soaking sounds
Available in three colours and coming in at under £35, the Tozo PE1 is a very small speaker that isn’t designed with booming sound in mind. Its reduced size is designed to make it portable, and the attached clip allows you to set it up…
Zoo Vadis rightly negotiates its way to the top spot for games of this kind
Zoo Vadis by Reiner Knizia and Bitewing Games is a sharp, negotiation-driven strategy game that reimagines Knizia’s classic Quo Vadis with a rather nice animal theme, streamlined rules, and incredible modern production values. We’re…
Jurassic World Evolution 3 is the torchbearer for Spielberg’s JP legacy
Jurassic World Evolution 3 is the most ambitious and feature-rich entry in Frontier’s dinosaur park management series to date — it’s a visually stunning, mechanically deep sandbox that finally delivers on the fantasy of building your own…
Axis Football 2026 is a massive step forward for the series
This is, by far, the best football game they’ve ever produced. Period.
Humble Haunted House – An un-amusing tower defense flop
Whenever I read reviews, I always try to get an idea of how long the reviewer has played the game for. Have they really given the game a chance? Did they persevere to see if there was any gold past a bumpy start? So believe me when I say I…
Hollow Knight: Silksong Threads A Needle Through My Heart
Unlike a lot of games I play or review, it almost feels like Hollow Knight: Silksong requires no introduction. Its massively successful prequel, Hollow Knight, came out over seven years ago, and immediately impressed with its world…
Knight with Tactics – A Medieval Sliding “Puzzle”
Knight with Tactics is listed as a “puzzle & trivia” game. If the trivia question is “how fast can you get 1000 gamerscore?” then I can advise the answer is approximately three minutes. Gameplay in Knight with Tactics takes the form of…
What’s The Best Thing? is a ranking game where the ranks are hidden
Rating things is incredibly easy, in fact, we often do it automatically as we think about things. However, What's The Best Thing? challenges you, as a group, to rank five, then eight, then ten, random things in the correct order, and that's…
The Puzzle – Octopolis by Hungry Minds
From the creative minds at Hungry Minds — the studio behind The Book and The Last Book — comes their latest creation. It’s simply called The Puzzle — Octopolis. I am starting to see a pattern in how they name things. Not the most…
The Edifier ES850NB Headphones are good for the price, but not the class-leader
As someone who uses the Sony WH-1000XM5 daily, I approached the Edifier ES850NB with a healthy dose of scepticism. Sony’s flagship headphones are widely regarded as the gold standard for wireless ANC over-ear headphones, and I’ve grown used…
Bomb Busters is one of the best cooperative games in recent years
Bomb Busters from Pegasus Spiele is a fast-paced cooperative deduction game where players work together as a bomb squad, racing against time to cut the right wires and defuse explosives before disaster strikes. It’s a clever and highly…
Ringo’s Roundup – Mail Delivery Never Looked This Cute
As a child, I was absolutely obsessed with Postman Pat. To this day, I have a small Postman Pat mailvan on my collectables shelf from my childhood that has survived. According to my mother, I used to point at every Royal Mail van and lorry,…
Ink Inside – A Splash of Creativity for the Action-RPG Genre
I tried starting this review in a few different ways, but I think the following sentence gives you the best summary: Ink Inside is an RPG in which doodles throw dodgeballs at each other. They do this to defeat the evil that has possessed…
Powerwash Simulator 2 – Cleanin’ up
Other changes are minor, but welcome. You no longer need to buy soap if you want to use it. Instead you have a reserve that refills over time which means you don’t have to waste money on replacing it. This is nice considering soap really…
To a T – earnest heart, choppy frames
To a T has all the right elements you'd expect from a Keita Takahashi game. It is earnest, charming, simple and full of the act of play, both mechanically and aesthetically. The music is joyous and the visuals are a lovely mishmash of…
Gloomies challenges you to strategically grow and harvest flowers
Gloomies love flowers, they love wearing them and collecting them. Your job is to oversee both the growing and harvesting of the flowers in this two phase, contract-based board game. Before I start, I should state that Gloomies is an…
Chivalry is Dead: Race for the Crown is great fun – if you approach it the right way!
Chivalry is Dead: Race for the Crown is a fantasy-themed chariot racing game from Naughty Jester Games that blends high-speed competition with chaotic combat, delivering a racing experience that is as much about survival and sabotage as it…