Hello Chris!
Oh, hello there, Completely Fictional Person Created For The Purpose Of Livening Up A Review Of A Minor Hardware Iteration! I haven’t seen you since the days of the PS2 Slim.
What’s that you have there?
This? Oh, glad you asked. This is the New 2DS XL. It’s the latest in Nintendo’s 3DS family. Continue reading “New 2DS XL review”
Nintendo will be releasing the New 2DS XL on 13 July in Japan and 28 July in the US and Europe.
The latest member of the 3DS family, the New 2DS XL is the budget offering in the ‘New’ range, clocking in at £50 cheaper than the New 3DS XL.
But how does it look, and is it worth the money? Yer man Scullion will be giving a full written review next week, but until then here’s a 12-minute video of me unboxing it and pointing out some of the key good and bad points. Continue reading “New 2DS XL unboxing and first hands-on impressions video”
E3 week is slowly coming to an end, and while it may not have been the most dramatic in terms of big reveals it certainly clarified one thing: over the next 18 months we’ll be getting more great games than you can shake a Joy-Con at.
Of course, the main events during E3 week are the numerous press conferences, many of which I covered with podcast recaps. Most people are happy enough in the knowledge that if they watch every conference they’ll see the best of what E3 has to offer.
What you may not have realised, though, is that there are a wealth of other games at E3 that aren’t part of the conferences: either because they’re made by third-party publishers who aren’t showing presentations, or because they’re first-party games that for whatever reason have taken a back seat (sorry, Gran Turismo Sport). Continue reading “E3 2017 – The 45 trailers you may have missed”
It’s Nintendo time! Continue reading “TOH Podcast 16 – Nintendo E3 analysis”
There aren’t many website peeps who’d stay up until 2am to watch an E3 conference, then stay up for another hour recording a podcast for you. But here we are. Continue reading “TOH Podcast 15 – Sony E3 analysis”
Another E3 podcast, you say? About Ubisoft this time? Well, I’m only happy to oblige, good sir/madam (delete as applicable). Continue reading “TOH Podcast 14 – Ubisoft E3 analysis”
Microsoft’s just finished its E3 2017 conference, so here’s yer man Scullion’s full game-by-game analysis. Continue reading “TOH Podcast 13 – Xbox E3 analysis”
After revealing the full scripts for Sony and Microsoft’s E3 2017 press conference, yer man Scullion is also finally ready to shed light on Nintendo’s offering.
Content is subject to change, but it really won’t. This is cast-iron, mate. Continue reading “Nintendo E3 2017 Digital Event: exclusive script leak”
It’s E3 time! And to celebrate yer man Scullion is putting together not one, not two, but SIX episodes of the Tired Old Hack podcast. Here’s the first. Continue reading “TOH Podcast 12 – EA Play E3 analysis”
When I first played Arms at the Nintendo Switch reveal event back in January, I left with a few concerns.
“Before I fork over my cash for it,” I wrote in my hands-on preview, “I’m going to want to see a lot more characters, plenty more stages (each with a unique gimmick, preferably) and a solid single-player mode that goes beyond arcade-style ‘beat this fighter, then this one, and so on’ stuff.
“I like what I’ve seen so far, but I remain unconvinced at this point. It’s going to take a little more than this to disarm me. You’d think I’d be sorry for that joke. You’d be wrong.”
I’ve now spent the last week playing the game at home, and I’m happy that most of those concerns have been put to rest. I’ve even come to terms with calling it ARMS instead of Arms.
And I’m still not sorry for that joke. Continue reading “ARMS (Switch) review”
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