This year saw plenty of online action erupt in more traditional genres, as racing games sped into view and sports titles turned us all into sons of pitches. So which game scored the biggest goal and took first place for a podium finish? Read on and find out!
Driveclub was beautiful, sublime to experience and it deserved better before Sony parked it away in a random barn with nary a find word said, leaving it to be forgotten about in the years to come.
Having spent a bunch of time playing WRC 8, and remembering playing Codemaster’s DiRT Rally 2.0 at the start of the year, got me thinking that the sub-genre of rally racing is one of the last places you, a fan of driving games, can go for a proper single-player experience. We’re not going to get Need for Speed games like …
When I booted up MXGP 2019 and greeted by its slick character customisation, I thought things had changed. See, Milestone has been making MXGP videogames with the FIM Motocross World Championship licence for years, and they’ve featured the smallest, most iterative of upgrades in all that time. Even when they moved to a more modern piece of development software with …
Hopefully, with the 25th anniversary, the studio would be compelled to deliver something special. Something that could stand out from all the rest. Nope, Chuck Testa.
F1 2019 is another exceptional racing game that caters to all spectrums of fans, giving you numerous modes, exhibition events and an exciting career mode to get familiar with its gorgeous tracks. It's simply one of the best simulation racers out there, again.
Twenty years later, and Crash Team Racing is back on the trac, ready to kick some marsupial butt and leave the competition in its dust. Alessandro recently had a chance to take the game for a few laps, and believe it or not…He’s actually good at this game.
Crash Team Racing is almost unbelievably faithful to the original PlayStation 1 kart racer from Naughty Dog. Whipping my kart around the long corners of Tiny Arena felt like I was a kid again, experiencing arcade kart racing for the first time again while mastering all the right jumps and angles for efficient boosts and drifts. But like both the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro Trilogy remasters before it, Crash Team Racing using more powerful hardware to make these remakes stand out in new ways. With Crash Team Racing that’s clearly evident in its more effects heavy and detailed races, but modern enhancements are taking hold off the track too.
A good loot box never feels like a coupon. It feels like a moment. …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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