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1662 awesome things @jwhitfield888 Favourite game is Sonic The Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles Favourite console is Nintendo Gamecube
Joe has been playing video games since he was knee-high to a grasshopper when his mum bought him the original Game Boy for Christmas, and he was hooked from the get-go. Primarily a handheld gaming nerd, attracted by everything from Sony, Sega and of course, Nintendo, his collection is slowly taking over his home office. When he's not producing content for the site, he is busy modding and repairing broken and unloved games consoles to give them a new lease of life... or playing Tetris.
Playtonic announces that the remastered version of their first game will be coming to consoles. Yooka-Replaylee will be available on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and whatever Nintendo calls its next console. No release date has been set but to... read more
Super Rare Games continues its quest to preserve video games by offering a couple of indie games in physical format. Next on the list are Jumpship's Somerville and Darkstone Digital and DreadXP's The Mortuary Assistant, both of which will be... read more
A new challenger in the "Bullet Heaven" genre of games has emerged. Wildkeepers Rising: Echoes of the Guardians has been announced by the Canadian Indie developer Lioncode Games and is coming soon to Steam. The studio has been around since... read more
After releasing on Steam earlier in 2024, 3D Realms and Point N’ Sheep are bringing the stylistic 2D action adventure game Bloodless to Nintendo Switch. The game incorporates the styles of 1990s beat-em-ups like Streets of Rage with tough enemies... read more
THQ Nordic confirms that Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition will become that little bit more definitive when it releases on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles in October. The original Darksiders 2 was released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360... read more
Pathea Games has announced the third entry in the My Time series with My Time At Evershine, with the Chinese developers looking to bring the cozy simulator to PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 (whatever that ends up... read more
Impact Gameworks confirms that the upcoming Flowerstone Saga has suffered a slight delay ahead of its original release date. The SNES-inspired JRPG was due to release on Steam today (17 September) but has suffered a last-minute delay due to an... read more
Sony has confirmed the existence of the long-rumoured PlayStation 5 Pro model. The system will be released as an all-digital version on 7 November. The PlayStation 5 was originally released in 2020, with a slim model releasing in 2023, and... read more
Odd Bug Studio’s follow up to Tails of Iron is coming out in 2025. Titled Tales of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter, the game throws players back into a world of rodents, frogs and bats as they battle for survival... read more
The upcoming survival horror title Retrieval has had a major update from 333 Studios with the Spanish-American developer showcasing what players can expect from the title when it releases for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. (more…)
7 November, 2024 - 3:04 pm reviewed on: PlayStation 5
My wife and I were walking the event floor of the 2023 WASD show when a man in an exquisite suit thrust a foam garlic bulb into my hands. My first reaction was to look confused, but I gathered myself... read more
22 September, 2024 - 11:56 am reviewed on: PlayStation 5
It's widely accepted that humans will be the first to go when AI takes over the world. What’s unclear is what happens after the dust settles and the nuclear fallout eases, likely due to humanity not being around to enjoy... read more
From watching Captain Pugwash or being bathed by Matey Bubble Bath as a kid, I’ve always felt there’s a romantic idea about pirates. As I grew up, Disney taught me that they were playful scallywags who journeyed the Caribbean looking... read more
I am an absolute sucker for both pixel art and puzzle games. If you waved a boxed copy of Piczle Cross in front of me whilst my shed was on fire, my garden would be full of smouldering ashes in... read more
What’s that old saying? Ah yes. There are three certainties in life, taxes, death and the annual Hyperdimension Neptunia entry. At any given point, the team at Compile Heart is seemingly just weeks away from releasing another entry in their... read more
What do Hoover, Coke and Picross all have in common? They’re all brand names that are thrown about instead of the real names. Why is this relevant you ask? Well, that’s because I didn’t know that ‘Picross’ was a brand... read more
When I think of Monty Python, the first thing that pops into my head isn't one of Eric Idol’s ditties or John Cleese’s sarcastic punchlines, but Terry Gilliam’s amazing artwork. While I got a kick out of skits like the... read more
Two weeks ago I'd never played a Metal Gear game in my life, and that's despite my wife badgering me on and off for over a decade to give it a chance. My excuses ranged from “I'll add it to... read more
Since humans first sprang into existence, there have been many interpretations of what life could be like once we expire. The Catholic belief I grew up with told us that we’d be clad in all-white garbs, probably playing golf for... read more
The Destiny 2: Shadowkeep holds a lot of firsts for Guardians. It was the first expansion Bungie self-published after its split from Activision, it is the first release for what is the current free-to-play base game, and it introduced several... read more
I hate reviews that start with bombastic statements, but I’ve been using the Glorious D2 Wireless Mouse for about a month and during my time it has become my favourite bit of kit on my desk… a desk that has... read more
Xbox Game Pass offers a staggering list of games that can be played across Xbox consoles, PC and even on mobile devices via cloud gaming. With such a wealth of games available, it can be hard to keep track of... read more
For the last two years, I've been trying to fix broken consoles to give them a new lease of life. After I post a successful repair there’s always someone (Ian. It’s Ian.), who says I should remember to take photos... read more
Video game to movie adaptations tend to have a bad rep, with the nineties/early noughties being particularly dark periods of time. Tosh like Alone in the Dark, Dead or Alive and Doom being touted as the next great crossover, only... read more
If you have ever read one of our reviews, most end with a little blurb that says we’ve been given a copy of the game in return for a fair and honest review. What you might not know is that... read more
We don’t need to tell you that there are a lot of video games being released every week and a lot of games simply go under the radar. Indie games in particular are often developed by small teams, usually without... read more
Dear Reader, Let me tell you about the Child of Light An older game by Ubisoft, designed to surprise and delight With a Princess trapped in a fairy tale land And whose only vocal ability is to speak in rhyme... read more
Created by Bungie, and stuck in development hell for nearly 7 years, Halo: Combat Evolved released to critical acclaim as an Xbox launch title in 2001 (for us Europeans, it released in 2002, but that’s by the by), and set... read more
With everything going on in the world, the annual gamescom convention is going all digital this year. Taking place between Wed, 25 Aug 2021 – Fri, 27 Aug 2021, there will be a lot of news from the world of... read more
I don’t know about you, but there’s something magical about heading to a shop, store or supermarket to buy a video game. Even though I said goodbye to my twenties a few years ago, there's still the excitement of picking... read more
Aka caught my attention earlier in the year when the chonk of a red panda sprung up on Steam. You see, there are a few things I absolutely lose my mind over - heavy metal when played in normal places,... read more
Fans maybe unhappy with the new look of arguably one of the coolest looking video game characters of the last 10 or so years, but with a recent hands-on of DmC, VGamingNews isn’t writing off Capcom and Dante just yet.... read more
The Darkness II follows on from the 2007 game in which mafia supremo Jackie Estacado is thrown into a world of demons on his 21st birthday. The first title was a little on the short side and had a few... read more
In between producing the original survival horror series that is the Resident Evil franchise, working on Devil May Cry and the world renowned Street Fighter CAPCOM must be finding it tough creating new and exciting IP's right? Well no. Wrong.... read more
