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Review Blasphemous - An Unholy and Triumphant Metroidvania
King of the castle
Perhaps ‘Dark Souls-vania’ is a bit of an overstatement, but there’s no denying the plethora of influences, both modern and contemporary, in this gorgeously sacrilegious metroidvania. Blasphemous is dripping in grim atmosphere and stuffed full of macabre religious iconography, bloody combat, and enough lore to fill the Old...
News Blasphemous' Launch Trailer Is Bloody Gruesome, Out Now on PS4
Guts and gore
Blasphemous is out right now on PlayStation 4, bringing with it punishing 2D platforming action and a hack-n-slash style combat system that'll test your skills to the limits. To celebrate the occasion, developer The Game Kitchen has released the game's launch trailer. Launching to favourable reviews, it looks like Blasphemous is more...
News Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Brings Back Tonics on PS4 Next Month
Release date confirmed
Developer Playtonic Games has scaled back for its follow-up to its 3D platformer, Yooka-Laylee. The sequel, named Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, opts for a two dimensional perspective, with a top-down hub world. From what we've seen of it so far, it's looking like a smaller but better constructed game. We're definitely...
News Moving Out Puts the Couch in Couch Co-Op When it Moves to PS4 in 2020
Changing rooms
Moving house is never fun, right? Packing up your whole life into cardboard boxes is always a stressful endeavour -- it's no surprise there aren't many video games on the subject. However, Moving Out presents this laborious task in a fun, cheerful way, and we must say it looks pretty good. Developer SMG Studio has partnered with Team...
News Overcooked 2: Carnival of Chaos Is Your Next Helping of DLC
Plating up next month
Overcooked 2 has had a pleasantly lengthy shelf life on PlayStation 4. Developer Ghost Town Games has been keeping the co-op cooking caper going with all kinds of free and premium DLC, and the next course is about to be served. The third and final expansion included in the season pass, Carnival of Chaos has been teased in the...
News Gruesome Side-Scrolling Adventure Blasphemous Sins on PS4 in September
About bloody time
Blasphemous has looked really intriguing for a long while now, and it finally has a release date on PlayStation 4. The gory and often nightmarish side-scrolling action role-playing game staggers onto Sony's system next month, on the 10th September. It'll be priced at $24.99/€24.99/£19.99. If you're not familiar with...
News Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Trailer Shows Off Levels and Their Alternate States
Changing things up
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is making some big changes to the formula laid down by the first game. While Playtonic's debut effort was a decent attempt at a nostalgic 3D collect-a-thon, the follow-up is a smaller scale, 2.5D platformer with a nifty top-down overworld to explore. In this new trailer, it seems more than just...
Guide Can You Play Overcooked Online on PS4?
Does Overcooked have online multiplayer?
Can you play Overcooked online on PlayStation 4? Overcooked is one of May's PlayStation Plus games, and as such, many will be taking their first steps into this chaotic, cooperative cooking game. Although playable alone, enjoying this clever little title with friends is an absolute must. Ideally, four player...
E3 2019 Overcooked 2 Latest DLC Adds a Horror Themed Horde Mode
Bread rising
Yes, you read that right: Overcooked 2 is getting a horde mode. The latest DLC for the co-op cooking game is called Night of the Hangry Horde, and it sees the return of the Unbread -- only this time, you'll be directly fending them off. In this new mode, there will be multiple stations at which you can serve food, and doing so will...
E3 2019 Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Brings 2.5D Goodness to PS4 Later this Year
More info at E3 2019
The team of Yooka and Laylee brought classic 3D platforming back to the masses with the suitably named original adventure, Yooka-Laylee, back in 2017, but the twosome is switching things up for their next outing. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a 2.5D side-scroller, and it's coming to PS4 later this year. Accessed via a...
News Blasphemous, a Brutal Action Platformer, Hacks and Slashes Its Way to PS4 This Year
Watch the new trailer
When pixel art is done well, it can be very effective, and it looks like Blasphemous certainly fits the bill. This upcoming action game from Team 17 and The Game Kitchen is coming to PS4 in 2019, and it looks like a dark, creepy adventure. Playing as The Penitent One, you must explore the cursed land of Cvstodia and hack your...
Review Overcooked - A Delicious Slice of Culinary Co-Op
Frying pan-ic
Republished on Wednesday 1st May 2019: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of May's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. Too many cooks spoil the broth – or so the saying goes. The fellows at Ghost Town Games may have taken this on-board when developing its debut indie effort...
News Overcooked 2 Campfire Cook Off DLC and Season Pass Out Now on PS4
Get it while it's hot
If you want a second helping of Overcooked 2, you're definitely not short of options. The latest DLC pack, Campfire Cook Off, is out today on PlayStation 4, bringing you more of that delicious co-op cooking. It features 15 new levels, four new characters to unlock, and two new recipes. You'll be making s'mores and all-day...
Review My Time At Portia - A Delightful Post-Apocalyptic Life Sim
Workshop till you drop
My Time At Portia is a charming life simulation game, revolving around your new life running a workshop in the post-apocalyptic town of Portia. Unlike most such settings, Portia is brimming with vibrant colours and cheerful residents. However, the town still bears the scars of the apocalyptic event which ravished the world...
News Overcooked 2 Season Pass Serves Up Three Courses of DLC, Starting with Campfire Cook Off
Seasoning Pass?
Overcooked 2 is a game that just keeps on giving. The game launched with a decent number of stages, not to mention online multiplayer, and developer Ghost Town Games keeps wheeling new dishes out of the kitchen to keep us at the table. The latest announcement is for Campfire Cook Off, which has a teaser trailer -- check it out above...
News Overcooked 2's Free Chinese New Year Update Adds Levels, Chefs, and a Brand New Game Mode
Available now
We hope you're hungry for more Overcooked 2, because Team 17 keeps bringing new courses to the table. The free Chinese New Year update is available to download now on PS4, and it brings a feast of new content to the culinary co-op title. There are seven new kitchens to play, in which you'll cook up two new recipes -- fruit platter and...
News Looks Like a Free Update for Overcooked 2 Will Celebrate the Chinese New Year
Year of the pork
So far, the post-launch support for the brilliant Overcooked 2 has been pretty decent. In addition to premium DLC Surf 'n' Turf, the chaotic cooking game has snacked on free updates since its release, including some bonus Christmas content, New Game + mode, a practice mode, and more. It looks like the trend is set to continue, as...
News Free Update for Overcooked 2 Brings Festive Levels, Recipes, and More
Tis the seasoning
Earlier in the week, Team 17 teased a new update to its beloved co-op cooking game, Overcooked 2. We now know what it's been preparing for us, as the publisher has announced Kevin's Christmas Cracker, which you can take a look at in the above trailer. Team 17 has donned its Santa suit and is handing out this update free of charge...
News New, Winter-Themed Overcooked 2 Content Coming Soon, Seemingly Free of Charge
What's Team 17 cooking?
It wasn't too long ago that Overcooked 2 had its first DLC in the form of Surf 'n' Turf, bringing a bunch of new levels, recipes, and items to the wonderful multiplayer game. Now, publisher Team 17 has teased something new is coming to the co-op cooking game, which you can get a brief glimpse of in the above video. Whatever...
News Yooka-Laylee's Retro 64-Bit Mode Coming Soon on PS4
Time for a downgrade
All the way back when Yooka-Laylee was nothing more than a hopeful Kickstarter campaign, one of the promised additions was a way to play the game with 64-bit graphics, in order to complete the obvious throwback to Rare's late 90s platformers. It's been a long time since then, but it looks like Playtonic Games is finally ready to...
DLC Review Surf 'n' Turf Brings Both Sunshine and Challenge to Overcooked 2
Fun in the sun
Firing up Overcooked 2's new Surf 'n' Turf DLC, we had flashbacks to the almost unbearable heatwave endured by much of the UK back in the Summer. We at Push Square Towers were on our knees, desperately trying to keep cool and not let the heat get to us. With copious amounts of ice cream and good old fashioned British complaining, we...
News Overcooked 2 DLC Surf 'n' Turf Releases Today on PS4
New chefs, kitchens, and recipes
The original Overcooked received a couple of small DLC packs, so it's nice to see the sequel is getting the same treatment. Overcooked 2's first summery add-on, named Surf 'n' Turf, is out today on PS4, giving you another reason to hop back into this delightfully stressful co-op cooking game. Surf 'n' Turf brings 12...
News Ghost Town Games Is Teasing New Overcooked 2 Content for October
Delicious
The Overcooked games are a firm favourite when it comes to cooperative gaming, so whenever something new starts brewing, you know we'll be there to get a taster. Right now, it seems the developer, Ghost Town Games, is almost ready to reveal the first DLC for Overcooked 2, and it's looking very sunny indeed. Whatever it turns out to be,...
Out of this world
We all know the difference between day and night on Earth, but do light and darkness cause similar transformations on alien worlds? This is the question driving Planet Alpha, a 2D platformer featuring an unnamed spaceman, stranded on a mysterious planet. To escape, our lost astronaut is going to have to delve deeper into an unknown...
News Enjoy a Second Helping of Overcooked 2 When New Game + Arrives on PS4
Michelin star
Overcooked 2 is a delightful, fun multiplayer game to enjoy with your friends, but it can also provide a very stern challenge, especially for those chefs looking to reach a three star rating in every kitchen. If you were able to breeze through the game's tricky levels, however, Team 17 has cooked up a New Game + mode, which will be...
New and improved recipe
With Overcooked, Ghost Town Games landed upon a delicious recipe for co-operative cooking chaos that dished up a perfect helping of frantic fun. Although fairly short and straightforward in structure, the fiendishly designed levels meant players really did have to communicate effectively to succeed, and it's this that makes...
Interview Chewing the Fat with Overcooked 2 Developer Ghost Town Games
Chef chat
The Overcooked games are a real treat on PS4. The first was a modestly sized but perfectly executed co-op game that players of all ages and skill could enjoy, and Overcooked 2 builds on this firm foundation with new features, including the highly requested online play. We caught up with Phil Duncan of Ghost Town Games to talk about the...
Interview Flipping Through the Yoku's Island Express Soundtrack with Jesse Harlin
Bouncing around
Hearing Yoku's Island Express described paints an interesting picture. It sounds like a weird game. A really weird game. Just listen to reviewer John Cal McCormick desribe the title: " Yoku's Island Express is a 2D, open world, Metroidvania, pinball game starring a dung beetle postman dragged into a battle for the fate of...
Mug shot
Our time with Mugsters has been short, it has been simple, and it has been sweet. Mugsters is the newest game from the publisher behind Overcooked, The Escapists 2, Yooka-Laylee, and most recently Yoku’s Island Express. Knowing all that, Mugsters has some big shoes to fill. Can it keep up with the endless wonder of Yooka-Laylee? Can...
News Mugsters, a Curious Action Puzzle Game, Is Heading to PS4 in July
Release date announced in new trailer
We've been keeping a watchful eye on Mugsters since its announcement last year, and it's looking rather interesting. Your aim in each sandbox style level is to escape the encroaching alien threat by solving environmental puzzles and defeating baddies with...
E3 2018 Overcooked 2 Brings Online Multiplayer to the Table in August
Tasty
Overcooked 2 has been officially announced by Team 17. The sequel adds a few new ingredients to the winning formula found in the first game, including online multiplayer, the ability to throw items to each other, new levels, ...
Review Yoku's Island Express (PS4)
Pinball Wizard
Because many video games lean on familiar gameplay loops, archetypal characters, and genre conventions, when you're reviewing them it can sometimes feel like you're saying exactly the same thing about a game that you already wrote about previously. But every now and again you'll have to write a sentence during a review that you know...
News Learn More About Yoku's Island Express in New Story Trailer
Postman bug
Yoku's Island Express is a bit of an oddball concept, but there's no denying its whimsical charm. Team 17's latest game has you playing as the titular bug, delivering mail across Mokumana Island and bouncing around through pinball-esque platforming environments. The brand new trailer, embedded above, goes into the game's overarching...
News Yoku's Island Express Rolls onto PS4 Next Month
You've got mail
Team 17's upcoming pinball platformer, Yoku's Island Express, looks like a charming, unorthodox little adventure title. In the new trailer embedded above, we see two of the minds behind the game talking about the making of this curious game, plus a release date: the 29th May 2018. If you're not familiar with Yoku's Island Express,...
News Sci-Fi Platformer Planet Alpha Announced for PS4
Atmospheric
Team 17 has announced Planet Alpha, the latest game under its steadily growing publishing umbrella. Make sure you check out the trailer above, as it looks rather interesting. You'll be making your way across an alien planet, escaping from "relentless enemies" as they chase you across the world. The first thing to take away from this...
News Yoku's Island Express Mixes Pinball With Platforming on PS4 in 2018
New trailer released
Yoku's Island Express is an unusual title that's flying a little under the radar, but going by this new trailer, it's looking rather lovely. Published by Team 17, the game stars Yoku the dung beetle and has you delivering mail to the inhabitants of an open world location named Mokumana Island. Bet you've never played a game with...
Review Worms Battlegrounds (PlayStation 4)
At war with itself
Republished on Wednesday 1st November 2017: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of November's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. Way back in the hazy days of 1995, we doubt that plucky British studio Team 17 imagined that it would be making Worms games a...
Aventually
Aven Colony tells the story of the human colonisation of an alien world, and each mission of the fifteen hour campaign is a variation on that one, singular idea. Like Earth, the planet offers everything from frozen tundra to lush, fertile landscapes capable of supporting the growth of crops like corn and wheat. The aim of the game is to...
Me Tooie
The problem with Yooka-Laylee is that pretty much every criticism levelled at the throwback platformer can be waved away with a 90s novelty foam hand: it's supposed to be that way. But where recent revivals like Shovel Knight have managed to revisit games gone by through rose-tinted glasses, Playtonic's take on the Nintendo 64 classics of...
Video Does Yooka-Laylee Delight on the PS4?
Early impressions of Playtonic's platformer
Snake Pass is kick-starting a retro platformer renaissance this week, but Yooka-Laylee is right around the corner. We've been playing the Banjo-Kazooie throwback for a good few weeks now, and we figured it was worth pulling together a bit of gameplay footage (under strict pre-release guidance from...
News Yooka-Laylee's Platinum Trophy Looks Reasonably Achievable
Bat crazy?
Yooka-Laylee is a collectathon at heart, so you're probably going to want to get all of its Trophies on the PlayStation 4. And fortunately it's looking like a relatively straight-forward Platinum to nab – you're just going to have to keep your eye out for all of those pesky pagies and quills. While it does seem like there's an awful lot...
Hands On Turning Back Time with Yooka-Laylee on PS4
A Rare treat?
The employees over at Playtonic have been through a lot to say the least, many of them coming from backgrounds at the ever-celebrated developer Rare that was responsible for such timeless classics as Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007, and Donkey Kong 64 to name a few. So there's a pedigree to these people to say the least, but have...
News Yooka-Laylee's Capital Cashino Is Full-On Sonic Adventure
Casinopolis?
Who remembers the casino stage from Sonic Adventure, then? Y'know the one: there's a NiGHTS into Dreams pinball table among other awful minigames. This new level from Yooka-Laylee reminds us of that classic Dreamcast sandbox stage; you even have to gather up casino coins and cash them in in return for a Pagie, much like the Blue Blur...
News Playtonic Wraps Production on PS4 Platformer Yooka-Laylee
Gold, gold
Like the glistening trinkets that will undoubtedly populate its sandbox levels, Yooka-Laylee has gone gold. The game – which isn't actually set to release until 11th April – is finished and heading off to the ol' manufacturing plant as we speak, where it will be printed onto blank Blu-ray discs and uploaded to the PlayStation Store...
News Yooka-Laylee Adds Local Multiplayer Minigames in Rextro's Arcade
Bagsy the best controller
Yooka-Laylee's shaping up to be something special, isn't it? The upcoming PlayStation 4 platformer isn't exactly breaking new ground, but it's been so long since we've played a Banjo-Kazooie-esque sandbox romp that we can't wait to take Playtonic's love letter for a spin. And it just keeps getting bigger and better, too...
News Shovel Knight Brings More Fanservice to PS4 Platformer Yooka-Laylee
We're diggin' it
Yooka-Laylee exists to please old-school Nintendo gamers. Having gone hands-on with the PlayStation 4 platformer earlier this week, we can confirm that it's quite literally Banjo-Kazooie running on modern hardware – even the use of the Unity engine ensures an authentic N64-esque 20 frames-per-second throughout. But what about...
Wriggly good
Explosions litter the battlefield, reducing soldiers to nothing more than corpses and gravestones. A poisonous gas sneaks around, grasping its enemies and withering them away to a point of no return. A hawk-eyed missile eerily seeks out its victim, locating and dispatching them with mechanical ease. War, you see, has changed. But all...
Gamescom 2016 Yooka-Laylee Is a Nintendo 64 Game for Your PS4
Bring your Banjos
It's a real credit to Playtonic Games that Yooka-Laylee seems so authentic. Drop the polygon count and resolution of this trailer and it'd look like a Nintendo 64 game, which is what the developer's aiming for, of course. This brand new Gamescom 2016 video shows off some of the environments you can expect to explore, with the...
News Yooka-Laylee Looks Like Pure PS4 Platforming Goodness
Will release early next year
This looks good! We must admit that we've missed Nintendo 64-era platformers; the recent Ratchet & Clank is amazing, but it scratches a different kind of itch. In fact, the last real collectathon-esque adventure that we can remember on a PlayStation platform is Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, and even that didn't really...
News Silent Hills Inspired Survival Horror Allison Road Binned
Statement incoming, apparently
It looks like Silent Hills-inspired survival horror Allison Road has taken a little too much inspiration from Hideo Kojima's ill-fated reboot, as the promising looking title has been canned. Originally the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, developer Lilith scrapped crowd-funding when Team 17 got involved as a...
