It’s difficult to sum up an experience like the pure joy of playing a new Mario Kart game for the first time. I have quite a personal relationship with the series, having played most of the different versions all through my childhood and up to the present day. It’s a series I have come back to again and again, especially now I finally own a version of every iteration. There will be a retrospective of the series here in the coming months, but you’re not here for that. You want to know about Mario Kart 8; the latest of the series and possibly the best. Read the full story »

Mountain is a “game” with air-quotes in full force. It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t know if it’s one that actually works. As the self-proclaimed “art wanker” and “filthy casual” of the D+Pad Magazine stable this is a game which should appeal to me an elements really do try to, but it doesn’t quite get it right. Read the full story »

Strider, the 2014 update of the established series of the same name, is a largely unremarkable and unpolished exploration platformer in the vein of Super Metroid. It has several strong features, but at the same time they feel underdeveloped and are rarely used in ways which innovate the genre. Read the full story »

Now that the first season of Telltale’s adaptation of the Fables graphic novel is finally complete, I wanted to write a follow up to the initial review of episodes 1 and 2 that ran a few months back on the site and take a view on the series as a whole. So did the story manage to maintain the early momentum? And were Telltale able to stick the landing? Read the full story »

The world is wrong. Some kind of disaster has taken place and as Princess Ida, you have to navigate a land of broken towers to find your way to forgiveness. Read the full story »