Dave Ozzy

Now, don’t get us wrong, we love a bit of Hot Wheels Unleashed, and are deeply grateful to get the whole kaboodle of DLC to play (it could so easily have been the vanilla edition arriving on Game Pass). But you have to question that ‘Game of the Year’ tag, right?

Park the controversies that surround The Woman King, schedule in some reading around of the topic for later, and settle in for a period biopic, bursting with energy, that tells a familiar story within an unfamiliar setting.

Hunt Ducks 4 is a racket, a grift. The developers have carefully peeled the label off of Hunt Ducks II’s bottle and then sold it again as Hunt Ducks 4 instead.

There’s sunk-cost at play with Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm. If you’ve been there from the start, way back in 2000, then nothing we say is going to stop you watching.

Like a cat with a ball of wool, you will toy with Cat Slide Tiles for a few minutes and then toss it away for something better.

Treat it as a reasonably out-and-out comedy, something that’s increasingly rare, then Confess, Fletch is well worth a rental from your Xbox Store.

Rhythm Sprout is a playlist of eclectic bangers, tied to a simple rhythm action system that slaps you round the face with challenge.

Albacete Warrior is, without any doubt, the least funny comedy game we have ever played.

Don’t be put off by the graphics. JANITOR BLEEDS is a survival horror that is very much capable of sweeping you off your feet.

Kattish is good for achievements and paw for gameplay.

With the quickfire release of GoldenEye 007 and the surprise of all surprises, Hi-Fi RUSH, the addition of two previously announced, slightly older games to the Game Pass service might seem like an anticlimax. But we’d encourage you to not equate older as worse, as these are two rather fantastic games.

We can’t muster any enthusiasm to tackle more Shapeshooter levels.

One half of LoBlocks is more enjoyable than we anticipated. The other half is far, far worse.

When RE:CALL is confident in its central conceit, it’s a bloody brilliant narrative adventure.

It’s like the office is talking in a different language. There is a lot of excitement around Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Console, Cloud) arriving on Game Pass today, but we can’t make head nor tail of their discussions about controller support, William Wallace and resource indicators.