Very happy at the release of Axiom Verge as it's has been on my Watch List for months! Looks right up my street! In disappointing news, I only recently clocked that Xenoblade Chronicles is New 3DS only and won't work my standard 3DS XL. Bloody gutted by that as I spent quite a while trying to hunt d...

Feb - Tearaway (Vita) Mar - Velocity 2X (PS4 & Vita) Played through this mostly on PS4 with a little bit of on-the-road Vita thrown in thanks to cross-save functionality. A fantastic game combining two really well executed genres of top-down ship shooter and side scrolling platformer, both with ...

Belated thanks for the 'Happy Birthday' chaps!

Hi Gents. Yesterday I was the lucky recipient of a copy of Evolve for Xbox One for my birthday (thirtybloodytwo.....what happened to my youth.....) and I am definitely up for a bit of co-op action! I've not even taken it out of the plastic wrapper yet, but am hoping to get on tonight. If you don't m...

Feb - Tearaway (Vita) Finally made it to through the lovely Tearaway. I feel much the same about it having reached the end as I did when I posted on the Whatcha Been Playing thread, so if you'll allow me to quote myself: I thought it the game had a beautifully intricate aesthetic, great music and SF...

Great Music Monday article from Leon on Lemmings this week on the main C&R site (nice one mate) As you can tell from my profile pic I'm an real fan of the game having played the original to death with my Dad on his Acorn, which had a really nice version of it (and of Dune 2 which is another chil...

Many happy memories of this game from the original release. Such a unique and fascinating world, and to this day some of the best writing in video games. I got most of the way through back then but got stuck and never quite finished it (I was 15 and not such a determined completionist back then!), s...

With a few days of train travel ahead of me for work meetings I decided it was time to finally give Tearaway a go, as the game came bundled with my Vita but had been trumped by the likes of Uncharted and Gravity Rush in the order of play since purchase. What a lovely game! Beautifully intricate aest...

Metro:Redux (the remastered bundle of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light as I'm sure you know) is currently £14.99 in-store only at Sainsbury's, on both Xbox One and PS4. I just bumped into this one while doing a shop last night at my local big Sainsbury's in Sheffield, and I imagine it'll only be at ...

So we've finally got a release date for one of my most anticipated games of the year - Ori & The Blind Forest :D It's releasing on Xbox One & PC on 11th March and will be a day one download for me even if I don't get to play immediately, as this looks right up my street and I've got my finge...

Well yesterday I had to drive an 8 hour round trip for a meeting in Essex, meaning I could listen to this from start to finish!

Really enjoyed it chaps, so well done and thanks for making my 'Must Play' list about 3 times longer!

I'm currently playing Wolfenstein: The New Order. It's a game I've had my eye on for a while now since the surprisingly positive reviews at release were followed by the enthusiastic feedback of those that played it throughout the year. It also seemed to make it into many peoples top 10's for 2014, s...

If you've not played it yet, you can't go far wrong with Uncharted: Golden Abyss!

Alternatively, a nice big RPG like Persona 4 Golden or Final Fantasy 7 would eat up a lengthy car journey.....

Right, here goes.... 10. Velocity 2X (PS4) I've only recently got stuck into this, so am by no means anywhere near completion, however what little I have played still makes this one of my favourite games of the year. It's almost like two games in one, a top- down ship shooter and a side-scrolling ac...

Ah it makes sense to you Leon as you know how to play Nights already! Question is does it make sense to a rightly bemused Alex.....

It's all about the links Alex! Everything you collect (orb or star), and every hoop you fly through adds to a link total which you see totting up on screen. You need to be quick about chaining them together as if you leave it too long between each one the link dies, the points are banked and a new l...

Just finished listening to the podcast - fantastic job guys! It was so nice to just listen to people chat about the game again, and hopefully inspire a new wave of players to jump in and give it a go. As you rightly mentioned on the show it is a far from perfect game in some ways, and I was a little...

Great news about D4 being given away next month! Have wanted to play it since they snuck it out a few months back, which seemed an odd thing to do particularly when it was quite an anticipated game in certain circles. Received some strong reviews as well if I remember correctly, so will be great rea...

Nights Into Dreams holds some of my most cherished gaming memories. A gift from my mum at Christmas 1996 at the age of 13, (with 3D controller of course!) I instantly fell in love with its gloriously vibrant visuals and music, and was hooked on the unique free flowing gameplay. I whizzed through all...

Having consumed every bit of Street Fighter 5 footage that's out there multiple time, is anyone else not massively impressed with what they've seen so far from a visual point of view, or is it just me? The game looks like a slightly prettier SF 4, with a few more effects, flashier backgrounds (admit...