Most games with numbered sequels tend to iterate and grow on their previous instalments. After all, you don’t want to alienate your audience by upending key systems and creating a substantially different experience from what they’re used to, it just …

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)It seems like an absurd notion these days, but after Tomb Raider made its debut in 1996, developer Core Design pumped out six mainline entries over the next eight years – six. It’s true that teams were a…

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)During Sony’s February 2025 State of Play presentation, the big shadow drop was Koei Tecmo’s Warriors: Abyss, which offers a low-budget, roguelite take on the popular Warriors hack ‘n’ slash formula. The…

This review was originally published in May 2014. We're updating and republishing it to mark the game's arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GBA library. Although Wario's core platforming series has been overshadowed for years by t…

Update #2 [Tue 18th Feb 2025, 6am]: Following the news EVO 2025 would be running an "extended lineup" of tournaments featuring various other fighting games, the final roster for this has now been confirmed. Joining the existing five games will be Sa…

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)If you ever thought monasteries were just devoted to worship, feasting abbots, and choral chants of Ave Maria, The Stone of Madness is set on proving you dead wrong. This is The Game Kitchen’s first foray into the…