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Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles is often Y2K movie gaming at its most frustrating, and yet it charms in a way that defies logic

Star Wars Episode 1:…

Like any good Star Wars adventure, Jedi Power Battles kicks off with scrolling text. A nice touch, even if…
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black dropped on Xbox Game Pass and now I can hear bird song again

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black…

Somewhere in my house there’s an excellent book called Difficult Questions About Video Games. It’s a collection of testimony…
Digseum is a treat for anyone who’s finished their Animal Crossing museum

Digseum is a treat…

Digseum is a new clicker game – one of those games where you click madly on things while the…
Hyper Light Breaker offers loot, lore, and..

Hyper Light Breaker offers…

Hyper Light Breaker is odd. This is probably to be expected – the Hyper Light series up until now…
If you like chess and robots, you need to play Mechabellum

If you like chess…

I look at my robots, and I mull. I’ve got tanky Steel Balls serving as a mobile frontline, buffered…
Towers of Aghasba offers mindless pleasures and tiny hippos to pelt with fruit

Towers of Aghasba offers…

I spent a lot of this morning throwing fruit at a tiny hippo. Sometimes the hippo ate the fruit,…
This Vampire Survivors-like is a knock-out blend of Jackie Chan martial arts and the prop flinging of Yakuza

This Vampire Survivors-like is…

I used to hate it when I’d see Vampire Survivors clones. I unashamedly loved that game and its lo-fi,…
Speedball is back from the dead, but don’t get too excited

Speedball is back from…

Perhaps some games are better left in the past. After all, many are born from the technological limitations and…
In Toilet Spiders, there sure are a heck of a lot of toilets, and a heck of a lot of spiders

In Toilet Spiders, there…

With a name like Toilet Spiders, it’s not exactly hard to work out what’s going to be creeping you…
Kill Knight’s twin-stick carnage asks an awful lot of you – but it’s very much worth it

Kill Knight’s twin-stick carnage…

Twin-stick shooters are a fascinating contradiction. These are games in which you move and shoot while the hordes attack.…