Editor's Opinion Give Me A Quantum Break
Bellowing at a stratocumulus
News - February, 2016
Thursday25th Feb 2016
News Shmup Action On The Way as Xbox One Exclusive Raiden V Heads West
Blasting off
Top-down shooter Raiden V has released in Japan for Xbox One and the development team have confirmed that the game will be breaking out of that territory and heading to North America and Europe. In an interview with Inside Games (Japanese), MOSS CEO Toshinobu Komazawa stated:- "Raiden is always made for worldwide, is an important...
News Motorcycle Combat Rolls Onto Xbox One With Road Rage
We know what you're thinking...
Indeed, we know what you're thinking from the headline, but this isn't a Road Rash remake. Maximum Games have confirmed that Road Rage - a new motorcycle-combat IP - will be launching on Xbox One later this year. The game is set in the dangerous town of Ashen and you play as Ace, the newest member of an outlaw...
Review The Flame in the Flood (Xbox One)
The girl Scout's guide to survival
The Great Outdoors isn't just the name of a classic movie starring the late John Candy and Dan Aykroyd. Believe it or not, it's an actual place that exists beyond our TV screens and our many other technological distractions. Beyond the prefab homes and fast-food joints cluttering our field of view lies a...
Tuesday23rd Feb 2016
News March's Xbox Games With Gold Revealed
Elementary...
Next month's Xbox Games With Gold have been revealed, and there's a varied selection of titles to be had. Xbox Spain leaked the information via a YouTube video that details the titles. On Xbox One, you'll be able to get Lords of the Fallen and Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, while Xbox 360 owners will be able to get...
Review Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders (Xbox One)
The clues are there...
If you know your crime novels, you are probably familiar with super detective Hercule Poirot – one of British crime queen Agatha Christie's main protagonists and best-known private eyes. During her lifetime, Christie published no less than 66 novels starring the dapper Belgian. Despite Christie repeatedly claiming that she...
Monday22nd Feb 2016
Review Rocket League (Xbox One)
Blast off
When it comes to surprise success stories, there are none more surprising in recent memory than Psyonix's Rocket League. 2008's downloadable PlayStation 3 title Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars which, while decent fun, was generally forgotten about or passed over by most, was hardly the most likely title to spawn a game that...
Review Dying Light: The Following (Xbox One)
Parks and Recreation and Zombies
Dying Light: The Following is a strange proposition that's available in a whole bunch of ways. It's an expansion pack that also alters the main game in a few areas, which can be purchased standalone if you own the original Dying Light without the season pass, will be delivered free if you DO own the season pass, and...
Review Bike Mayhem 2 (Xbox One)
Bike Meh-em
Less open minded gamers will groan at the sight of mobile ports, but they absolutely have a place on consoles. Games such as Pumped BMX+ have shown that the best mobile games can shine on Xbox One, as long as they're brought over with care. Sadly, not every developer ports their games with the care that Curve Digital does, and that leads...
Review D/Generation HD (Xbox One)
Jetpack couriers need a trade union...
D/Generation HD is a reworking of a fondly remembered action/adventure/puzzle game that was first released back in 1991, on PC, Amiga and ST. According to developers West Coast Software Ltd, the game has been recreated from the original source code and still contains all the original features, but has had a...
Friday19th Feb 2016
In space, it takes two to tandem
From Portal to Q.U.B.E, when physics-based puzzle games are done well, they stay in your memory and earn a valued spot in your games collection. TACs Games Factotum 90 is a likely contender to this club, taking a unique premise and making you feel like a genius while keeping the gameplay simple and engaging. Set...
Thursday18th Feb 2016
News Big Ant Attempts to Revive Dirt Track Racing Franchise
Down and dirty
If you're a fan of motorsport, you may remember titles such as Sprint Cars: Road to Knoxville and Sprint Cars 2: Showdown at Eldora for PlayStation 2. Closer to home, World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars on Xbox 360 might have been on your radar. Well, Australian sporting specialists Big Ant (Don Bradman Cricket) developed all of those...
Saturday13th Feb 2016
Editor's Opinion Give Me A Quantum Break
Bellowing at a stratocumulus
Help me, pX Community, for I am confused. I've been trying to work out why Xbox fans would boycott a video game that they want (not that they actually will, given that it's all talk and standard internet rage and we LOVE looking for things to be outraged about now) because it's coming out on another platform as well as...
Thursday11th Feb 2016
Review This War of Mine: The Little Ones (Xbox One)
War is hell
Inspired by the 1992 – 1996 Seige of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, This War of Mine is a bleak and desolate game. The entire thing is rendered pretty much entirely in a monochrome pencil drawing style, with only the minimum level of highlighting in place to show off things that you can select. It sounds bland, but that's far from...
Monday8th Feb 2016
Review Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (Xbox One)
A Hard Day's Nyet
When Ubisoft debuted their alternative take on the Assassin's Creed world with Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China back in 2015, announcing that it was the first of a three-part trilogy, there was hope in our hearts. Hope that starting from the promising base that the first title provided, the development team would listen to...
Review LEGO Marvel's Avengers (Xbox One)
Assemble Avengers!
Traveller's Tales have been ambitious with this, the latest in the chain of LEGO games which stretch back into the mists of time. Promising as it does to include content from Avengers Assemble, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Iron Man 3 and Thor:The Dark World,...
Friday5th Feb 2016
News H1Z1 Splits Into Two Games, Both Coming to Xbox One
A new approach
Daybreak's super-popular PC survival title H1Z1 is finally coming to consoles, but not in the way that you'd expect. Instead of a straight port, the entire game's development has been split up into two new products, entitled H1Z1: Just Survive and H1Z1: King of the Kill. All formats will follow the same path, so the PC title will be...
Wednesday3rd Feb 2016
Review Amazing Princess Sarah (Xbox One)
Busting out all over
That Amazing Princess Sarah is quite entertaining, is proof positive that you can't judge a book by its cover. The key art featuring the painfully-proportioned Sarah gazing out of the screen suggests that the game will be nothing but a teenage boy's fantasy presented in videogame form. In fact, some will pass over it altogether...
Tuesday2nd Feb 2016
News Battalion 1944 Set to Bring Classic WW2 FPS Gameplay Back to Xbox One
Back to the beaches
Indie developer Bulkhead Interactive have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new Unreal Engine 4-powered World War 2 multiplayer FPS by the name of Battalion 1944. The team behind the game consists of ex-AAA developers and ex-modders, and their core vision certainly appears to be a good one. They say that they want to...
Monday1st Feb 2016
Review G Prime Into The Rain (Xbox One)
Jesus Still Rocks
Few games are as baffling upfront as Soma Games' G Prime Into The Rain. Before anything is explained to the player, they are staring at eight different contracts to sign, with zero context regarding what any of them do. There's text that can be read that gives some background on the situation, but since the game has clearly been...
