After 20 years of playing every game I can get my hands on, I can now be found selling my soul for anything Resident Evil, Gears of War, or Gamerscore related... all of which will be mastered after a good cuppa!
Should you be after a game that can provide hours of fun or even some engaging experiences with friends, then Tetsumo Party isn’t likely to be your go-to game. It has a nice idea and if done better - dare I say maybe even with Kinect from back in the day - we could have been looking at a very interesting game. Sadly, that’s not the case
For a yearly release based on one of the biggest racing franchises, NASCAR Heat 4 doesn’t quite do it justice and even though those wanting a functional racer will find enough to be going on with, there aren't many reasons to pick this over any other racer on the market.
When it comes to survival horror, the first thing that many will want to talk about are the classic titles that kicked it all off; the Resident Evil’s and the Silent Hill’s of this world. Of course, since that point, survival horror has come a long way, evolving a lot, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t people out there who appreciate the roots of where it all began. With DAYMARE: 1998, that’s what the focus is centred around.
The month of June has finally arrived and whilst most of us are waiting in anticipation for the exciting announcements that are likely to come out of E3, there are still plenty of gaming releases to keep focused on beforehand. For those with an active Xbox Live Gold subscription, a new month means new games - new games you won’t be spending a single penny extra on thanks to the fantastic Xbox Live Games With Gold scheme. So without further ado, let’s jump into the Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles you’ll be able to download free of charge throughout June and find out just how good or bad they are.
Golem Gates has just released on Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch, blending action strategy with card battling in a way like we've never seen before. Coming about via a partnership between Digerati and the development team at Laser Guided Games, we felt there was enough intrigue in this hybrid experience to warrant a deeper look. So we grabbed Matt Oelfke, the lead designer and programmer on the game, for a little chat.
Since the vast success of Fortnite and PUBG, it seems every man and his dog wants a piece of the proverbial Battle Royale pie. Sometimes though, it is possible that a game can seep through the cracks and provide something a little different to the norm, reinvigorating an oversaturated genre once more. After spending many hours battling it out as one of the 100 players to drop from the sky in Realm Royale, I believe I have found the game that provides variety within the Battle Royale genre.
If you were to play Wolfenstein: The New Order today in 2019, you’d be hard pushed to believe that you were playing a game that was already five years old.
Fade to Silence is a survival adventure at heart, one that’s set in a post-apocalyptic world frozen by an eternal winter. With little but snow and ice shaping everything the eye can see, making your way about safely requires a firm understanding of just how the land works. This is where an immediate issue hits.
Extreme sports games are something I love to get involved in, and so Descenders was always going to be one I was excited by. Now calling downhill mountain biking 'extreme' may seem a little like we’re pushing it, but with no properly exciting mountain bike game to speak of on console since Downhill Domination back in 2003, I’m willing to call Descenders whatever it wants - so long as I get a decent thrill without having to throw myself around some mud-soaked, hazard filled course in real life!
Flutter Bombs doesn’t quite start players off in a typical twin-stick shooter setting. There’s no story based on hate or revenge - or even a story based on anything to be honest - there’s no world ending catastrophe, or corrupt organisation to topple, and most surprisingly of all, there are no proper guns.
Like many others before me, I have had many a day in my youth, sat in my pants on the sofa, playing games. Most of you will have done it at some point, but for those of you that are still afforded the opportunity for such luxury, there is now a game to match it – Brief Battles on Xbox One.
As someone who has frequently gone out to purchase the latest RGB Chroma lit Razer accessories for my PC and Xbox in recent years, the Razer Ripsaw HD was always going to be something that would perk up some interest.
Monster Energy Supercross 2 may well have been out for a few months already but that doesn’t mean that the frequently added content is drying up any time soon. Today only reinforces that fact as the Monster Energy Supercross 2 – The Playground DLC arrives on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
As a big fan of top-down twin-stick shooters, the fact that they tend to be so few and far between on Xbox One is something that I find disappointing. Here to shake off that disappointment though is God’s Trigger, a twin-stick shooter that puts you in the shoes of an Angel and Demon duo, Harry and Judy. And it is their task to work together harmoniously to kill their way into Heaven and put the brakes on the impending apocalypse.
Desolate is a game that looks to tell an alternate history of the Soviet Union, and with this players are taken back two years prior to the large and mysterious disaster that radiated and infected the various inhabitants of Granichny Island.
Whilst the year may be progressing faster than we can blink, and games seem to be arriving in the digital stores by the dozens each week, it has to be said that the start of any month is a time in which many Xbox players quietly look forward to. Sure you have all those exciting new releases as well, but more importantly, if you’re one of the millions of subscribers to Xbox Live Gold, you’ll be rubbing your hands together with the imminent arrival of fresh new titles at no extra cost. With May now upon us, that time is now, so without further ado, let’s take a look at this month’s Xbox Games With Gold freebies to see if the wait has been worthwhile!
