Star Darlings

Chunky pixels, a 1:1 aspect ratio, and the best feeling platforming around.

This remake of Star Fox 64 proves the Arwing isn’t out of style quite yet.

I recently finished reading Keza MacDonald's excellent Super Nintendo, a largely celebratory book about the company that "helped the world have fun", which nevertheless sounds a note of understandable caution at its conclusion. The author is concerned – and it's a concern I share – that Nintendo has been playing things too safe of late, that its release slate (with the odd exception) has become alarmingly conservative. It's time, surely, for the next Splatoon, and by that I don't mean Raiders. As hardware goes, Switch 2 is no big swing, and so far its software has generally followe

I’ve been an XCom fan for years, and while we haven’t got a new one in a while, Star Wars Zero Company seems like the perfect substitute. It’s in the Star Wars universe, which is awesome, and putting it in the middle of the Clone Wars makes it the perfect setting for a tactical game like this. And while I’ve been having a blast with it so far, it’s plagued with a lot of the same performance issues as Halo Campaign Evolved had about a month ago. At the time of writing, my time with Zero Company has been a bit of a nightmare, filled with crashes and frame drops. I’m sure that, over time, the gam

Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic survivor drama keeps its feelings about grieving in a triple layer of emotional bubble wrap.