Video by Matt S. I like discovering new sports. Rarely, a video game will actually be my intro to a sport I haven’t head of. That’s happened this week, because eCrossminton introduced me to crossminton – a sport I didn’t even know existed. This is one very low-budget, niche sports…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Spike Volleyball is the first attempt to make a serious volleyball simulation on console. Unfortunately, it’s not a great game, but that raises a greater challenge that niche sports games face; how to compete with the mammoth budgets of the likes of EA and 2K Games.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The folks at Corecell Technologies have achieved something remarkable; made getting a swimsuit costume for a character such a chore that I just can’t be bothered. In Crazy Strike Bowling EX you earn points for unlocking costumes by playing games, earning a “prize” point per point…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Football Manager games look like spreadsheets. They feel like spreadsheets to play. If spreadsheets had a smell, they’d smell like them too. On a fundamental level, it seems so silly that there would be this sports game franchise which doesn’t involve any on-field sports action. And…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. When you boil a tennis video game down to its most basic components, you get Pong. One of the very first video games ever made was, effectively, a simulation of bouncing a ball back and forth across a court, with the goal being to get that…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Blacktop, arcade NBA action returns for more power-up, gravity-defying hijinks in NBA 2K Playgrounds 2. There is a plenty of charm and a surprising level of depth in here that should appeal to newcomers and veterans alike. There is a massive roster of characters and some…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. For better or for worse, WWE 2K19 is exactly what I expected it to be. The overall gameplay has not changed all that much from last year’s iteration, but the continued additions and improvements do make the experience more entertaining anyway. So the core gameplay remains…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. As far as sports franchises go, The Golf Club is a relatively young series. This is only the third title. This latest iteration has managed to check all of the primary boxes and made a few natural strides in its evolution, though there is still room…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. FIFA 19 makes some incremental improvements on an already excellent soccer formula. Recent trends like the story mode return and all of the expected modes and on-field action are here. If you have taken a couple of years off from the series and have an itch…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Back in 1983, Konami released Track & Field (in America), also known as Hyper Sports (in Europe and Japan). It was a seminal arcade game that set the tone for arcade sports games for decades afterwards, and is to this day fondly remembered by a huge…
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