The bird is the word in Valiant’s Secret Weapons
Haunting yet hopeful, there’s a youthful energy in Secret Weapons #0 that’s hard to beat as Valiant Entertainment's new series asks its readers if they'd be willing to die for a chance to be special.
Haunting yet hopeful, there’s a youthful energy in Secret Weapons #0 that’s hard to beat as Valiant Entertainment's new series asks its readers if they'd be willing to die for a chance to be special.
It may have a sparse selection of tables on the Nintendo Switch and visuals that looked more jagged than the inside of a shark’s mouth, but Zen’s Pinball FX3 is a magical replication of the joy of pinball thanks to some savvy use of the Switch hardware that’ll delight any pinhead on the go.
Of the first wave of VR games, Owl Labs’ Job Simulator is a standout. The tongue-in-cheek game set in a future where humans have all been replaced by robots manages to make mundane things like office work and being a convenience store clerk un, by injecting them with spades of humour and equal lashing of absurdity. The other thing you’ll …
With staples like the persistent timer and sporadic saves gone, the urgency and dread is gone – allowing Dead Rising to be the silly, absurd bit of zombie-slaying mayhem it always wanted to be. Purists may scoff, but there’s no denying that it’s fun – and just about the best Christmas game in existence.
The AMD Vega 56 is a good card that's just a year too late to the market, with the ASUS Strix variation also making it slightly too expensive for its performance.
As with the first game, LocoRoco 2 Remastered is an unremarkable remaster of a delightfully charming game. The game’s bright and colourful visuals pop in higher resolutions, and the music comes to life through bigger speakers than the PSP offered. It’s a pity that like other PSP remasters, the cut scenes are a blurry mess, but that’s a minor complaint.
Modern-day sequels to beloved classics are not supposed to be good. Traditionally, they're nothing but bland, blatant nostalgia cash-ins. However, it appears that nobody informed Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle of this.
Destiny 2’s first substantial piece of DLC may look pretty, but it’s a surface fix that misses the mark on truly pushing the series forward.
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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