Mar 27, 2015

Nooooooo!! But also, yeeessss!! In a suspiciously neutral tweet, the official Nintendo account informed the world that Eiji Aonuma “has a message to share”. The link led to the above YouTube video, and the video makes it increasingly obvious that… oh, no… the Wii U Zelda game has been delayed. Very much so. It never had a solid release date, but...

Mar 10, 2015

Format: PC (version reviewed), Xbox One, PS4, PS3, Vita, Wii U Unleashed: Out now on PC and PS4, March 2015 for PS3 and XBox One and TBA for PS Vita and Wii U Publisher: Oddworld Inhabitants, Inc Developer: Just Add Water (Developments), Ltd Players: 1, with hotseat Co-op Site: http://www.oddworld.com/oddworldgames/new-n-tasty/ Game code provided by...

Jan 15, 2015

See that video up there? That’s what all the games sites have split into a dozen or so separate SEOtastic news posts. We’re not doing that at Critical Gamer; partly because we think it’s extremely cynical and disrespectful to our dear readers to needlessly plough the internet for ‘hits’ in such a way, but mostly because it’s...

Jan 2, 2015

Like many (most?) people, I was determined to never purchase an Xbox One after its disastrous reveal event. Not much has changed to the machine since then – apart from the removal of the demand for an internet connection, the removal of the demand for Kinect to be plugged in, the removal of Kinect from the box altogether, the removal of the emphasis on “TV...

Dec 17, 2014

It’s Christmas time! Sort of! It’s that heartwarming season that brings out the slobbering avaristic beast in all of us. There’s much buying and demanding of presents, many British people glumly resigned to the fact that they’ll get all the cold of the season and none of the snow, and millions of people across the planet fondling presents...

Oct 18, 2014

Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty is in development for almost every platform, with the PS4 having the only released version. It’s coming to all current gen consoles and PC type devices as well as the PS3 and Vita. Unfortunately they’re all TBA for their release dates but the Wii U version is still coming. Oddworld Inhabitants aren’t...