Month: August 2022

  • Splatoon 3 Giveaway

    We are back with another blinding competition – this time we’re giving one lucky person the chance to own Splatoon 3 for the Nintendo Switch! Splatoon 3 is the latest entry in Nintendo’s online shooter series that sees teams of four battle it out to cover the most amount of turf. One winner will get…

  • GAMESCOM 2022: Return To Monkey Island Gets New Trailer And Release Date

    One of our most anticipated titles of the year comes in the form of point and click adventure Return To Monkey Island and during gamecom 2022, the team at Devolver Digital dropped a new trailer. The game is shaping up to release across Nintendo Switch and PC this year, but the team did tell us…

  • Gamescom 2022: Indie Arena Booth Round-Up

    Gamescom is one of the highlights of the gaming calendar – with a host of celebrities breaking news galore and announcing all manner of exciting games. The flagship event held in Cologne, Germany, is a Mecca for developers and publishers to get their games seen – and that goes for AAA and indie teams alike.…

  • The Tarnishing of Juxtia

    The Tarnishing of Juxtia

    The Tarnishing of Juxtia is a new entry to the competitive 2D soulslike genre. If you’re at all familiar with the tropes you’ll find yourself quickly at home – explore a dead/dying kingdom, collect souls from defeated enemies to level up, rest at a bonfire (fountain) to restore health/healing items and resurrect the enemies, tough…

  • GAMESCOM 2022: New Area Announced For Tower Of Fantasy

    It might have only been out for a few weeks but Towers Of Fantasy is going gangbusters, with over 10 million downloads since its official worldwide release earlier in the month and to capitalise on the MMORPG’s quickly expanding userbase, publisher Level Infinite and developer Hotta Studio have revealed a look at a new area.

  • GAMESCOM 2022: Sonic Frontiers Looks A Lot Better In The Latest Trailer

    Gamescom’s Opening Night Live saw a huge number of announcements but for us, Sonic will always have top billing. Sega have revealed a new trailer for their latest 3D entry into the Sonic series, which teases what players can expect from the game’s story when it releases later in the year.

  • Sker Ritual Gets A New Trailer Ahead Of Gamescom 2022

    Wales Interactive have dropped their latest trailer for their latest first-person horror shooter, Sker Ritual. The game is a follow up to Maid of Sker and will be heading to PlayStation and Xbox consoles as well as PC later in the year.

  • Tintin Reporter – Cigars of the Pharaoh Announced For PC And Consoles

    Microids and Pendulo Studios have announced they are bringing back everyone’s favourite Belgian investigative reporter and his faithful companion Snowy, when Tintin Reporter – Cigars of the Pharaoh releases across consoles and PC next year.

  • SENSEs: Midnight

    SENSEs: Midnight

    The second game I reviewed after coming back on staff at VGamingNews was 2.5D 90’s-inspired survival-horror, Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story by Suzaku. While the game had its problems, the roster of antagonists was interesting and the setting showed definite promise, so I jumped at the chance to play SENSEs: Midnight, Suzaku’s follow up title.…

  • Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure

    I haven’t played a ‘build your own community’ game since Harvest Moon was released on the GameCube… so it’s been a minute. As a rule, these kinds of games aren’t for me. While I bow to the popularity of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the seemingly immortal appeal of Stardew Valley, I have always preferred…