There’s a lot of love out there for the Soul series, and rightly so – Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast had an absolutely enormous impact, and the games since have been of a generally high quality. But the game that tends to get forgotten in all of this is poor old Soul Blade (or Soul […]
When Codemasters set up its company in late 1985 it knew it needed a suitable calling card to wow gamers with. The Darling brothers were no strangers to success, because they had already been creating numerous games for Mastertronic, but now the brothers wanted to go it along and they soon game up with a […]
Since video games have become a “thing” from way back when, there have always been those people that were concerned about the medium causing more harm than good. While in the modern era, some claim that video games can be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the mid-Nineties, regular athletics games were no longer enough for gamers – or at least, that was Namco’s perspective. Eschewing the charms of real-world athletes like Daley Thompson, Numan Athletics was a cult hit featuring superhuman athletes achieving extraordinary feats. Namco was pleased enough with its performance that it quickly put a sequel into […]
Towards the back-end of 2014 Super Nintendo gamers were given their chance to sample Manfred Trenz’s spiritual successor to Turrican. Although seeing release in Japan under the name Rendering Ranger R2, the localised equivalent known as Targa remained an unreleased obscurity. With a bunch of well known prototype collectors securing the title, the game has […]
Here’s all the best bits from Sega’s superb Dreamcast conversion. How many do you remember? Leaping lizards… Er Sailfins We love Sega Marine Fishing and it’s not just because it looks beautiful with Sega blue skies and an amazingly jolly soundtrack. No, we love it because it delivers a number of heart-stopping moments that you […]