XBLA Reviews

Board games are having something of a renaissance of late, and I, for one, am delighted by that. Long before I first picked up a control pad, board games like …
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The humble platformer is one of the oldest and probably still one of the most prolific genres of video games on consoles today. So for one to stand out from …
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Valley is a first-person adventure game where the player uses the L.E.A.F. suit to traverse around the world of the game. The L.E.A.F suit gives the players the ability to …
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Most people think of iconic series’ like Super Mario or Sonic when describing the games that have influenced them the most. I can’t blame them. But most gamers will also …
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Kingdom: New Lands is described as a minimalist strategy game. And when they say minimalist, boy do they mean minimalist. It has minimal old school graphics, a subtle soundtrack, three …
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The falling blocks sub-genre of the arcade puzzle game sub-genre of the puzzle game genre has a long history including some of my all time favorite video games. While Tetris and …
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Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. There’s no other way I can write it, so I might as well get straight to the point; #KILLALLZOMBIES (or KAZ) is a twin …
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The easiest comparison to make when talking about Breach & Clear: Deadline is to the XCOM series but that wouldn’t really be a fair comparison for either game. Breach and Clear: Deadline is a …
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“Oh great, another Batman thing,” I thought when Telltale first announced that it was making a Caped Crusader game. That thought persisted throughout the roughly nine months that followed. Oh …
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The weight of expectation can be a terrible thing for games like Hyper Light Drifter that channel much-loved experiences from the past so directly. And whilst everyone I know (and …
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