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50s Shmup Squad 51 vs the Flying Saucers Knows Kung Foo
A classic side-scrolling shmup, but with a 1950s sci-fi aesthetic, Squad 51 vs the Flying Saucers is a tough but stylish experience shoot 'em up fans will enjoy.
Review
A classic side-scrolling shmup, but with a 1950s sci-fi aesthetic, Squad 51 vs the Flying Saucers is a tough but stylish experience shoot 'em up fans will enjoy.
Review
The Cursed To Golf reviews are currently doing the rounds, so here's my thoughts: quite possibly the best alternative golf game about? You make the call, I've made mine.
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Bouncing on two different levels, Sofiya and the Ancient Clan is a retro platform out on consoles. Here are my thoughts...
Book Quest
Hey, isn’t that Zelda? Nope. It’s Book Quest – the latest retro adventure RPG from publisher Eastasiasoft. Out this week on PC and consoles. After his family’s magic book is stolen, our nameless hero goes on a quest, a book one, to retrieve what’s rightly his, dodging,
Eastasiasoft
Eastasiasoft is on fire once again. Fresh off the back of Sword and Fairy: Together Forever, tomorrow will be the launch of platform adventure Sofiya and the Ancient Clan. Anyone with 16-bit heritage should be drooling. The words used in the press material for the game were ‘vibrant pixel art
Gigapocalypse
The 4th of August 2022 is the day of the Kaiju as both Gigapocalypse and GigaBash are released today. More on the latter in a few hours. However, both are different types of game. Goody Gameworks and Headup Games’ title is a retro-inspired side-scrolling city-smasher, a little similar to Rampage.
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Retro shmup fans might have a field day with the side-scrolling Hell Pages now that it's on Switch, but it won't be for everyone. Especially angels.
Eastasiasoft
Welcome to hell: Hell Pages – a side-scrolling shmup heading to the Switch later this week, courtesy of Eastasiasoft, Medusa Head and Ratalaika Games. Not long after the doors of Hell had been left open, the Earth became a battlefield among ten infernal armies. As Bael, the most feared of all
2023
Deflect bullets with your katana? A port of the original Doom engine? Cyberpunk? What’s not to like about Beyond Sunset – an FPS/RPG from Movie Games? How about another question? Waking up in a strange city, you discover that everyone wants you dead. Armed with a katana, you can
arcade
Not so much a news piece, but I saw this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge gameplay, as recently released by one of the publishers, Dotemu, and thought I’d share in case yo ain’t seen it, bruh. That’s what the kids say, right? It used to
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Dad, what were the late 80s/90s games like? Well, son, they looked a bit like Bit Orchard: Animal Valley, and if memory serves me correctly, they had this lovely nostalgic feeling - like this game for the Switch...
90s
You get a next-gen console and play Game Boy-inspired titles such as Bit Orchard: Animal Valley. Are you quite mad? Of course, you’re not. We all have our vintage, and whether you were around when the Game Boy was out, it’s a platform thoroughly loved. Unlike that ginger