The original Life is Strange was released back in 2015 as a five-part episodic narrative adventure game in the vein of current Telltale releases. A few years later (2017/18) we saw Life is Strange: Before the Storm, a three-part episodic prequel to the events we…
Just over a year ago, on October 23rd 2020, Pumpkin Jack was released on the Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC, just in time for Halloween. However, the PlayStation 4 version was delayed at the last minute and skipped the entire spooky season, coming to…
A few generations ago, my choice of console was the Xbox 360 – mainly due to the exclusives – yet I was never really a fan of stealth, horror, or spooky games, so I never had any interest in trying out Alan Wake when it…
Just like busses, you wait a long time for a detective’s origin story and then two turn up at the same time! Next month sees the release of Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, which I previewed HERE, and earlier this week I played through Agatha Christie…
Earlier this year I played Unto The End – a 2D side-scrolling combat adventure game that was pretty ruthless and gave me a taste of wanting more, though maybe something a little less challenging. I’ve therefore kept a close eye on Song of Iron, a…
**Update: you can check out our full review of the PS5 version, here: https://www.gamepitt.co.uk/sherlock-holmes-chapter-one-ps5-review/** Everyone knows who Sherlock Holmes is, he’s probably the most well-known and recognisable fictional character of the last few centuries. He’s been portrayed in many different styles through movies, books, TV…
The creative and mind-bending 3D-action platformer Psychonauts finally has a true sequel with Psychonauts 2 – 16 years in the making after a successful Fig campaign and including additional budget from Xbox after they acquired Double Fine Productions in 2019. Technically, there was a direct…
I love ‘whodunnit’ mysteries, whether I’m watching a film or TV show, or playing a video game, I love piecing together the clues and coming to a conclusion of who did what, where, and why. More often than not I’m wrong, but that doesn’t stop…
When I was younger, I used to love watching old black & white gangster films – the fact they were drained of colour was obviously limitations of the time but it also made them seem more dark and gritty. You would also see a lot…
