Publisher:  Manufacture 43
Developer:    Manufacture 43
Players: 1
Genre: Shmup
Launch Date: July 24th, 2019
Price:  £12.49/$14.99
 
When we got offered the chance to review Manufacture 43’s newest offering Pawarumi at first we didn’t know a whole bunch about it apart from early release trailers that had been shown off. We knew it was a frantic ball’s to the wall shooter of some kind but we had no idea it was a shoot em up. Inspired by Cave games of old with a western view and......
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Publisher: Artifex Mundi
Developer: Artifex Mundi
Players: 1 Player
Genre: Hidden Item Puzzle Games
Launch Date: 13th June 2019
Price:  £14.99 or $14.99


Hidden item puzzle games. They have never been on my radar and in my honest opinion, I firmly believe that these should be firmly in the domain of smartphones and tablets and that they don’t really have a place on home consoles. I’d maybe even stretch to a PC, but not Xbox or Playstation machines.
 

I know what you’re......
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Publisher: Digerati
Developer: Loren Lemcke/Kittehface Games
Players: 1-4 (Local Multiplayer)
Genre: Sport
Launch Date: May 2019


I had a golden age of when I played Ice Hockey games. It was round about the late PSX to early PS2 days, when it felt easy to use and nice to look at. Then the skill sticks came into play and it just lost me. I was safe in the knowledge that I was getting too old to keep up with it all, or at least that was my opinion.

Now that I’m EVEN OLDER, Super......
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Publisher: Digerati
Developer: Fantastico Studio
Players: 1-2 (Local Multiplayer)
Genre: Bullet Hell Shooter
Launch Date: 3rd May 2019
Price:  £12.49 or $14.99

Now, I have a very soft spot for sh’mups. Always have. R-Type and Gradius was what I grew up with, and if it wasn’t for the fact that it is just gathering dust, I’d be whacking on the old PS2 and getting the variants of those two stalwarts and enjoying it for all its worth.

There will no doubt be those who are......
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Publisher: Virtual Driver Interactive, Inc.
Developer: Virtual Driver Interative, Inc.
Players: 1
Genre: Driving Sim
Launch Date: 25th May 2019
Price:  £33.49 or $39.99

Now, as anyone will have no doubt noticed, this is not a game. It never will be, or indeed ever was. Driving Essentials is a valiant attempt to enable people to learn to drive, by giving you situations and scenarios, as well as some pretty strict speed limits, to navigate in your chase to be a better driver. It......
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Publisher: Mad Dog Games, LLC
Developer: Saber Interactive
Players: 2-8 (Online Multiplayer)
Genre: Zombie Survival Shooter
Launch Date: 16th April 2019
Price:  £34.99 or $39.99

Zombie shooters. I don’t think any reviewer in the world is going to get through a review of Mad Dog Games’ World War Z without comparing it to the grand-daddy of all zombie survival shooters, Left 4 Dead 2. It doesn’t come as a surprise, seeing as it really takes so much from Valve’s cult classic......
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Publisher: Digerati
Developer: Nerdook Productions/Stage Clear Productions
Players: 1
Genre: RPG
Launch Date: 10th May 2019
Price:  £10.74 or $14.99

Strategy based RPG’s have never been games that have floated my boat, I won’t lie. They would bore me, regardless of whatever the story was and, in my lifetime, I’ve seen some crazy ideas. R-Type had a Tactics game and that was just the final straw, what with the PSP and XBox 360 almost being inundated with them.

That......
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Publisher: Merge Games
Developer: Fatbot Games
Players: 1
Genre: Old School RPG Adventure
Launch Date: 10th April 2019
Price: £19.99 or $24.99

I have always been a keen follower of the retro scene and always acted like an ambassador whenever a game rears its head and nods towards a style of days gone by. Platform games are of particular interest to me, and I loved Rayman Legends like crazy, even saying it was up there with Mario in terms of content and feel.
There are, however,......
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