Mechanically Virtua Fighter 5 is still one of the greats, and being able to play it again is definitely a pleasure for any fighting game aficionado. Unfortunately, a weak netcode in a primarily online based fighting game is a terrible sin.

Soldner-X 2: Final Prototype is a rather classic shooter, which bases its appeal on those elements that fans of the genre know better: upgradeable weapons, huge bosses, nice levels and a large number of enemies who do nothing but shoot at us. Though its solid gameplay, however, Final Prototype lacks of original ideas and it's way too short.

Also for this year Wizards has done its homeworks releasing a new Duels of the Planeswalkers for all the beginners of Magic. And with the Sealed Play probably also the advanced players of the card game could have several hours of fun and enjoyment.

Dead Nation is a top view shooter with solid gameplay and very nice graphics. The weapons upgrade system works very well and adds thickness to the whole experience, while the enemies are numerous and quite varied. What a pity the online multiplayer mode suffers from an extremely slow matchmaking and the lack of a voice chat.

DodoGo! is a very big surprise for DsiWare. A game where an egg it's the most important thing in the world, a puzzle where a Dodo it's your best friend. 800 Dsi point are well spent for one of the best game of the DSiWare.

Sonic Jump does a good job in terms of gameplay and structure, with two different game modes and nice tilt / touch controls.

Riders Republic is as crazy as much as it is fun and enjoyable: a game you cannot break away from.

Section 8: Prejudice blows away most of the flaws of the first episode thanks to a good direction, a solid gameplay and a rich online multiplayer. Recommended.

Transformers: Devastation is a fun, frantic and deep action game which hits all the right notes but never stand out with anything other than its excellent combat system.

Ace Combat's PC debut is solid, fun and fresh in many cases, but it also comes with some technical shortcomings and the lack of advanced graphics customization.

Quantum Conundrum is the new title from Portal's creator Kim Swift, a fun, brilliant puzzle game. Well worth the price of admission, despite some frustration and a lack of polishing.

Despite the easiness of the gameplay, an interesting and intense screenplay makes Lost Horizon an exiciting and evocative journey around the world.

Unique and charming, moon is an experience not for everyone, but who dares to go beyond its learning curve is going to find a gem beneath the surface.

Melatonin is impressive for its quality on all levels, especially considering this is the first videogame by David Huynh: a brilliant and inspired art direction matches a precise and funny gameplay, animated by fitting lo-fi tunes that will immediately enter your personal playlist.

Chronos is a good action RPG that shows you how to play a VR game with a third-person perspective.

Just Dance 2023 implements a brand new art direction and refashioned menus, convincingly oriented towards an elegant and simple player experience. Only the users' feedback will tell if the modifications made to the live service - with Just Dance Unlimited's replacement by Just Dance + - will be accepted by long time fans of the series, but at the moment the selection of songs after the dramatic cut made by Ubisoft has not satisfied us completely.

Skyrim VR is the big scale role-playing game that was missing for PlayStation VR. It comes with some technical flaws in both graphics and gameplay, but it surely is the most immersive way to explore the epic world of The Elder Scrolls V.

Pikmin is a little gem that puts you in touch with the power, the beauty and the cruelty of the Nature in a wonderful way. Just don't mind if you already played the game on Gamecube.

The PlayRoom VR is a collection of five little games, and a free exhibition of the VR capabilities.

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition is still a good game. The Definitive Edition lacks some quality of life improvements that would have been appreciated after 15 years.

This is an homage to one of the most famous fps in history. Improvements are only about the coop mode and the joypad adaptation. Ask yourself if you are ready to play Doom II.

Despite some difficulty balance issues Might & Magic Heroes VI is rich, full of missions, scenarios and maps. Definitely a good chapter of the M&M franchise that can be easily improved with a patch or two.

Despite the fact that it doesn't introduce any revolutionary feature, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a solid, well designed and rich in FPS content which will make all the fans happy.

Soul Sacrifice delivers a rich, deep and solid survival action experience, packed with some stunning visuals and sounds. The combat is often frustrating for various reasons, just like Monster Hunter, but overall it's no doubt one of the best PS Vita games around.

Developer MADFINGER Games did almost everything right in Dead Trigger 2, which is a much better game than its predecessor.

LEGO Minifigures Online is a fun and simple game which can entertain the kids and the LEGO fan, even with some poor implemented controls.

Guildlings seems a good start for a great adventure: it's both a parody and a sincere tribute to the classic fantasy RPG and childhood games.

We really liked Freud's Bones, both as a game in itself and in the way it knows how to mask its limitations behind interesting playful solutions, as well as an appealing and graphical style. It's a little verbose and is best enjoyed if one knows a little about psychoanalysis, but that's inevitable given the subject.

Mount & Blade II Bannerlord is not an easy game to get into, and several of its mechanics are not introduced very clearly. There is also a lot of repetition, at multiple levels of the game, between side quests and repeated events. At the same time, however, it gives us access to a large sandbox that immerses us in an all-too-believable medieval world and allows us to transform from a simple country mercenary to a lord, enjoying large-scale battles and watching our kingdom grow.

Firaxis does not disappoint. It is clear that Chimera Squad is a smaller project than the previous two XCOMs, but it works, despite its limitations.

Touchgrind BMX is both frustrating for its unforgiving mechanics and rewarding when you finally get the tricks done right: in any case, it's definitely not the pick-up-and-play game you'd expect to find on an iPhone.

Crimson Desert is not a game that leaves you indifferent. It’s certainly not a masterpiece of the genre, nor is it a complete disaster. It shows as much potential as it does flaws. The game doesn’t set any new standards, but those who were expecting a grand, long-lasting adventure can set off for Pywel confident they’ll find what they’re looking for.

A well made turn base strategy game. It only lacks some depth in battles, and the AI is not that brilliant, but you can always realy on the multiplayer. And it has some nice graphics and menus.

Good script and visual style makes up for the lack of variety in Costume Quest and the adorable characters and villains are intriguing enough to appeal players into clearing the game. Turns based encounters are dull and repetitive although you can customize your characters through costumes and stamps, but they are just the main issue of the game. Double Fine released an enjoyable game for a cheap price and we hope for a sequel, perhaps next Halloween or even earlier.

World of Horror is a game of contradictions that result not always solvable: on the one hand, we have a plot based on the presence in the world of unspeakable horrors; on the other, you pass the game to manage objects and statistics, trying to take control over what should be, by definition, uncontrollable. World of Horror travels between opposites and finds no balance, but it remains an interesting work for those who want to experience a horror adventure strongly anchored to tabletop role-playing games and have a passion for the exquisite horrors coming our way from Japan.

Kinectimals on iOS does exactly what you would expect: it's a portable version of the original game which allows you to pet your puppy anytime, and for an audience of kids it's definitely a good deal for a low price.

The three minigames are a welcome addition and the chip system improves the pace of the game. Still, it's exactly the same game we already played with Tiny Tower and Tiny Death Star.

At its very core INKS is a flipper simulator, but the structure built around its simple idea results in a much different experience that can please everyone.

Packed with some awesome graphics and solid gameplay, Avengers Initiative is a must-buy for every Marvel fan out there.

Resident Evil 3's first minutes are absolutely stunning, then the game becomes way too normal, unable to push the boundaries of the classic survival horror genre or simply follow the solid steps of the previous remake.

Sniper Elite 4 represents another step forward for the series, but a step we imagined could be more decisive. The game still delivers a solid, enjoyable shooting gameplay, but not so far from what we experienced in the previous episode.

Deponia on Nintendo Switch is the same good adventure that we already know on PC and consoles.

The gameplay is frantic, funny and extremely deep. It’s a shame that you have to grind useless abilities for many hours to unlock all the hunters and the monsters. Other than that, not all the game modes work perfectly.

Tennis in the Face isn't another Angry Byrds' clone. The same concept but with a lot of original innovations, like the ball's physic and the explosives bonus. But, first of all, it's funny!

Inazuma Eleven Go: Chrono Stones is absolutely over the top even for the series crazy standards, but the formula is wearing out its welcome.

The first next gen chapter brings all that was good in the previous chapter and optimizes dynamics and loading times.

Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel gives fans of the series a good amount of content to dig their teeth into: however, the new features just don’t work and the overall quality of the adventure isn’t even close to the one we enjoyed in Borderlands 2.

Virtua Tennis 4 is a pefect game for Vita, with great visuals and full of contents in the Career Mode. Sim nuts must be aware that VT4 a completely arcade game, easy and fun to play, but not as complex as the other tennis titles avalaible.

A far from perfect porting for an iconic and still enjoyable jRPG.

It was certainly no easy task to get the player's empathy to penetrate beneath the steely layer of the space diver's suit. It's difficult to feel sympathy even for the unfortunate Travelers who preceded us, and at times the dialogue exchanges between characters seemed less interesting than the written notes we found while exploring. Those, indeed, are full of humanity. And yet, despite all their limitations, we must give Bloober Team credit for having once again succeeded. Maybe even to have started a new franchise that, in a few years, could be among the great titles of science fiction horror.

Sons of Abraham delivers some good additional content to Crusader Kings II, although it doesn't bring the same amount of original things like the previous The Old Gods. However, grand strategy fans will surely like it.

If you are in search of an hardcore online shooter, Day of Infamy is the game for you.

Akka Arrh is the reinterpretation made under acid of an arcade game that never made it to the arcade, yet another psychedelic journey of the Yak that its fans will only appreciate.

The experience offered by South of Midnight is as evocative as it is imperfect: the Xbox exclusive developed by Compulsion Games delivers a brilliant mix of storytelling, style, and music, but pairs it with gameplay that has clear limitations - somewhat derivative and never truly flawless in the implementation of its rather overused mechanics.

Without bringing any true innovation to the RPG genre, after the Gothic's bug-experience Piranha Bytes gains its revenge with Risen, a game that every RPG lover will enjoy in every of its parts. Solidly based on the best elements of western RPGs, this game presents only some difficulties on the combat system that could discourage somebody, while for everyone else it's definitely a must-have.

Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged brings back the immediate and fun formula that worked so well in the first episode, adding some new features and increasing the contents and the variety of races.

Intentionally outdated and anachronistic, Rain-Slick 3 may appeal nostalgic jrpg players and fans of the original Penny Arcade strips.

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is an impressive and highly educational graphic adventure, now also available on Nintendo Switch.

Blot is a simple clone of Jetpack Joyride, but the latter is definitely more fun and engaging, thanks to the object-based gameplay.

Even if The Gunstringer is quite short and maybe too easy, it's actually a great example of how you can create a (sort of) hardcore game for Kinect, with intuitive and enjoyable controls and a great Spaghetti Western atmosphere.

A great RPG revisited, with a challenging expansion and lots of enhancements to main campaign. Capcom dit a great job on refinement, but some technical issues remains.

Expanding the original Pen and Paper formula, this new game from Behold offers more space but almost the same structure, with its strengths (humour, characters management) and flaws (repetitive quests).

Star Wars Outlaws is an excellent Star Wars game. A good adventure, with a good story and good characters, all perfectly placed within a framework that is absolutely faithful and respectful of this intellectual property. It clearly does not have the depth of a Fallen Order in terms of combat nor the facets of the best RPGs set in this fictional universe, but when it comes to gameplay and contents it is certainly rich and interesting, very solid though far from original.

As a rhythm game, Pulse leaves much to be desired: however, as a sensorial experience, this app is really one of a kind.

PES 2012 delivers a better gameplay than its prequel: it's more funny and succeed to satisfy the player. It's sad that the AI ruins all of this and there aren't any big major steps in the gameplay modes.

Beyond the unavoidable considerations about the suitability of a city-building simulation game as SimCity Deluxe to a portable device, it must be said that the EA title becomes a real blast after a few minutes in which you have to understand what to do and how to do it.

Fast & Furious: Legacy offers more than the average mobile drag racer, thanks to some interesting game modes.

Remnant: From the Ashes is a cruel and difficult third person shooter, but also extremely satisfying.

Grey Goo is a game designed for old-school RTS fans, with some new design twists. It may have some flaws, but it is definitely worth the money.

A fresh old school puzzle platform, fun and lenghty, with a lot of nice ideas and variety. Trial and error formula lead to some frustration.

The great card game is ready to download trough Xbox Live and PSN, a new Magic: The Gathering Game is coming. The Game is ready to impress.

Many software houses tried to follow the path of X-Com. Goldhawk Interactive is the first one that managed to do it.

The first episode of this new Hitman experience reflects many of the key elements of the series. Good stealth features and great emphasis on creativity place it on the right path. Even tough the narrative side will be verified with upcoming chapters.

La-Mulana EX brings back great feelings of previous iterations, ongoing challenges and complex level design. This title is a must have for all 8-bit era fans.

Assetto Corsa Competizione is an amazing simulator. However, some problems prevent the game from reaching votes of total excellence. In a few months we will probably have a perfect title.

Reckless Gateway is another gem on the Apple Store: fun but not easy, it's an arcade racing game based on physics, and it's really well done.

Zombiu is a strong launch title, even if the focus and the alignment on a Nintendo console seems a bit forced. However, a shallow combat system and some disappointing graphics keep the game from being much better that what it actually is.

Solomon's Keep is an action RPG based on randomness: random dungeons, random skill levels and random enemies. The result is a nice game, but the level design is unfortunately repetitive. Considering the budget price, for action-RPG lovers it can be a good buy.

Hero Academy is an online RTS that could be very funny, but game rythm is too slow, cause there's just the online mode. With a Single Player Campaign and a time limit during the turns it could become a very must buy for RTS lovers.

Battle Nations smartly combines two different genres focusing, on the one hand, on the immediacy of casual games; and, on the other hand, on the challenge and the thickness of the turn-based strategy games.

Matching With Friends delivers a nice asynchronous multiplayer experience, bringing you some classic puzzle action and combining it with something different.

Actual Sunlight is a kick in the eye. An heartfelt journey through the thoughts and days of a hopeless working man that in the end decides to quit from life.

Although simple and lighthearted, Trouserheart turns out as a good and solid, somehow genuine action RPG for mobile platforms, enriched by a fun characterization.

Three Fourths Home is an excellent experimentation in narrative. It's story delivers strong emotions with a meaning, but it's interaction is as brilliant as superfluous.

Til Morning's Light is a sort of interactive horror cartoon for youngsters. It doesn't shine as an adventure nor it does as an action game, but it's all glued together by its fresh and charismatic world.

Ski Safari 2 is still a fun, frantic and colorful endless runner, but it doesn't shine as the first episode.

Toukiden 2 comes with plenty of missions, dozens of weapons and some nice bosses, but also an empty open world and modest graphics.

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight takes a simple approach in its metroidvania aspects, but it's still a hell of a challenge and ultimately fun to play.

Quotation forthcoming.

Quotation forthcoming.

Nioh 2: Tengo's Disciple remains on the same excellent level as the base game, avoiding overdoing it, but still giving a good handful of hours of new content.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt is a pleasant and interesting battle royale, with some original ideas (classes, powers, civilians to bite) and an extremely dynamic gameplay.

Monaco 2 shines in cooperative play, offering local split-screen and cross-play options, though the multiplayer experience is currently limited by the small player base. Despite some balance issues among classes, the game provides a rich and engaging experience, especially in its daily procedurally generated missions.

Spiral Episode 1 is basically all looks and almost no substance: hopefully Pixel Hero Games is going to fix the many issues of the game in the next episodes, but this is definitely not a good start for the series.

King Arthur: Knight's Tale is an excellent strategic role-playing game, with many winning features, such as the setting and the combat system, which fortunately the flaws, while present, fail to nullify. Of course, we would have liked a few more interactions in the exploration phases, as well as a more balanced management of progression, but you can't have it all.

Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the Clock Tower the fan needs​.

Quotation forthcoming.

The Big Con is a nice game, but not very deep. It entertains for the time it lasts, but in the end it doesn't give much in terms of experience, if not for its graphic style that stands out on everything else.