With Halloween just around the corner, wouldn’t it be nice to open the door to trick or treaters and offer them a tempting pickled eyeball, or a slice of fairy brain fudge? Maybe have some family round for some tasty human snot curd on toast, and demonstrate your...
In the 90s, a Madden game meant digitised sound and an ambulance ploughing down half the players when someone got injured. Great days. Nowadays it’s far more realistic, but every bit as fun. Madden 17 gives you loads to do. The franchise mode has been improved, and now...
Absolute Drift ticks every box you might want as an aspiring sideways driver: you can slide sideways round long corners, under cranes and leap sideways over shipping containers without a single consequence if it all goes wrong. The worst case scenario? Restart and try again. No penalties, no...
Flick ‘Em Up is a game about setting up a small cowboy town on your table, then trying to complete various missions from the instruction book by moving your cowboys (and shooting the others) using nothing more than a flicking motion. The game looks and feel brilliant, and...
Some of the fastest drivers in the world are back, and with Codemasters on a roll in terms of providing excellent racing experiences (after all, Grid Rally was incredible) they’ve also nailed the latest iteration of the F1 series, making it the best in a long time. The...
Jack Sparks died while writing this book. Cheerful eh? The Last Days of Jack Sparks follows the popular, social media obsessed star as he researches his latest book about the supernatural, trying to find evidence that ghosts and spirits actually exist. As time goes on things get truly...
Now this is an idea I can get behind – a mashup of Borderlands and Mad Max. In Bite we follow a teenage girl, picked up but a small gang in the middle of the desert and taken along to a small town where things soon go a...
Revenger takes a little while to get going. There’s a few words dotted around which clearly have importance (and indeed, come to form the basis of the story) which aren’t explained until later, and as such it would be easy to switch off and read something else. But,...
