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What do you get when you take Harvest Moon, take out all the RPG elements, add some really simple puzzles and then charge £17 for it? Well, you get Harvest Moon: Mad Dash, and you might well wish you hadn’t. Here is a game that’s almost entirely the opposite of what Harvest Moon is all about, but with the name splashed all over it and the familiar sprites front and centre. It’ll almost make growing vegetables seem a chore, if…

Golf, I would propose, is the real-life sport best-suited to translate into a video game. The sport’s electronic history dates back more than 40 years, and has had its share of highs and lows. The latest simulation golf game, PGA Tour 2K21, is unequivocally one of the best representations of playing a round of golf. It’s also a game more than seven years and four games in-the-making. Developer HB Studios released its first The Golf Club game in 2014, and…

On Saturday, DC Comics held a digital event called DC Fandome. During the event, they revealed two new games: Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League! We have details on both games below. On Saturday, DC Comics held their digital DC Fandome event. Two new games were revealed! Here are the details: Gotham Knights Gotham Knights is developed by WB Games Montréal and will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. In Gotham Knights, there are four characters…

It’s Sunday afternoon in the summer. You’ve just eaten a big meal and you’re settling down to an hour in front of the TV. Battletoads. You blow the cartridge and put it in. Maybe, just maybe, this’ll be the time you make it past the second level. But probably not, because frankly you suck at this game. Sound familiar? We’ve all been there. If it wasn’t Battletoads, it might have been Mario, Punch Out, Ninja Gaiden or any other title…

Once upon a time, there was a cartoon called Samurai Jack. It was toon about a Samurai who was lost in time and fighting an ancient evil called Aku. And now that cartoon is a brand new video game called Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time. Its available today! Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is available today for the Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Windows PC. The game costs $39.99 (US). I was a huge fan of the Samurai…

Once upon a time, games were made to work as well as possible, and any janky physics or annoying glitches were the result of mistakes or oversights by developers. Today, as with Brunch Club, janky physics and annoying glitches are the game. Apparently it’s fun. We’ve seen it time and time again. Goat Simulator and Surgeon Simulator put their awfulness front and centre. The only reason to buy into it is the memes. Brunch Club isn’t that bad, but it’s…

Finally, the answer to the question “Do you have Battletoads?” is an emphatic “Yes!”, at least if you have an Xbox One (or PC) and subscribe to Gamepass (which…c’mon man. If you’ve got an Xbox One, you should have Gamepass).   Anywho: 26 years after the franchise last appeared in the arcades, and 27 years after the last console release, the Battletoads have returned to kick some tail. The game tries to be a lot of different things, and mostly…

Game Freak, known primarily (rightfully so) as developers of the beloved Pokemon series, steps out and creates a new RPG game unlike anything else. Using card based mechanics unlike what we’ve ever seen before with a splash of board game mixed in created an RPG that doesn’t require constant grinding of low level monsters to beat. Truly something unique in the world of wash, rinse, repeat of game development but is unique always good?   The game is set in…

I’ve spent a hell of a lot of hours with Lara Croft this last month. What started in Shadow of the Tomb Raider as a cool action-adventure has turned into an endurance test: a tomb challenge of monotony. Throwing her off cliffs repeatedly only relieves the annoyance so much. When, oh when, did games like this stop being fun and start just being really big? Ah, I remember the heady moment I decided to platinum Shadow. I was younger then,…

Over the last number of years, whenever I think 'gaming headsets' I'm thinking about Turtle Beach, and the fantastic headsets they've created and released, including their all time leading seller, the Stealth 600 on Xbox One and PS4. Today, Turtle Beach announced a brand new Gen 2 Stealth 700, and the newest generation of the Stealth 600, coming to both Xbox and PlayStation consoles.