The Dwarves brings the novel setting into the videogame with a compelling and well-narrated plot. Unfortunately the game is overwhelmed by its own ambitions, and the gameplay part is not as good.

Not the deepest 4x title out there, StarDrive regains complexity through real time space combat and well implemented ship customization. Oddly the launch version of the game is incomplete, full of glitches and needs urgent updates.

Deiland: Pocket Planet Edition is a charming experience, at least at the beginning. It is relaxing and immersive for a while, until you hit some structural flaws in its gathering and progression system, but overall it remains an enjoyable game.

Double Dragon Revive was a real surprise — one of those games we didn’t expect much from, only to realize we had unfairly underestimated it. Yuke’s work is a smart evolution not only of the series it belongs to, but of the entire beat ’em up genre as well. It’s a genuinely satisfying title in its core elements, falling short only due to the lack of extra modes. Apart from that, it’s truly an excellent Double Dragon — one to be experienced, one punch at a time.

You can't really blame Gameloft for being unoriginal, but it's hard to accept so many technical downsides and gameplay issues from a game which should be top of his class.

Despite quite a potential, Venetica takes elements from other different games mortifying all of them with a result that doesn't come even close to the quality level that an ambitious production needs to reach.

The PC version of the Crytek’s game is coherent with its roots and that’s at the same time a good and a bad thing.

What Happened could have been a fine psychological thriller but ultimately lost itself in its own messy loop.

As a fighting game, J-Stars Victory VR+ is quite limited, but with more than fifty characters taken from the most important manga and anime series, will definitely make Shonen Jump fans happy.

Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop has little to do with the original game for Xbox 360, since the gameplay and philosophy behind it are completely different. It also suffers from a series of problems that make it frustrating at times. This game seems to be a spin-off rather than a real conversion, but it's still a challenging action-packed title.

Real Football 2012 unfortunately suffers from the same problems that characterized last year's edition: poor AI, no official licenses and unresponsive controls.

Star Wars Unleashed 2 is a good game which manages to improve over its predecessor's shortcomings. It's still too short and samey as a whole. Fans will enjoy it for sure.

Following the Nintendo Wii version, the Nintendo 3DS eShop publishes the funny minigolf game with Miis as lead characters.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a good tie-in, with lots of missions and a nice online multiplayer. The gameplay is repetitive, however, and the stages could have been larger. A nice title for all the Transformers fans out there, definitely.

The PC version of WWE 2K17 comes out of time for several reasons, with a standard price, no DLCs included and the same issues we found on console: cumbersome controls, no story mode and a mixed bag in terms of graphics.

Blackgate does a pretty good job in capturing the feel of the franchise, bringing some very nice elements to the table but suffering from an unconvincing approach to backtracking.

Wings shall live in memories of the fans, not die in their hand. Wings! Remastered Edition is a bland remake which fails even from a nostalgic point of view.

The Perils of Man could have been a fairly entertaining adventure, but the good premises soon leave place to a dull and sketchy series of puzzles and locations.

Kejora visually draws inspiration from the works of Studio Ghibli and offers a primarily narrative-driven adventure, with few puzzles to solve and some light stealth sections. While the game is aimed at less demanding players, the overall experience feels bland and far too limited in every aspect. Recommended only if you are a fan of Studio Ghibli’s works and are looking for something light and undemanding.

Although similar in content and technical level compared to the previous chapter, F1 2014 is a very different title in terms of gameplay, thanks to the new cars with turbo-electric engine. Solid and rich, it is a good product in waiting of the first Next-Gen Formula One.

Elite Forces is an old school action game with little ambitions, but direct and fun. It has some problems, though: controls are a bit inaccurate, there isn't multiplayer (offline or online) and, above all, it has poor AI.

Aside from the creature editor -which is indeed a nice touch- Spore Hero is a pretty forgettable action game: it's kind of slow paced, the minigames aren't always very good and the combat system is really poor. It's a game for kids, and that's about it.

Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai is a product faithful to the manga and anime of reference, but also very lacking in terms of play.

Scathe is not a total disaster, but it simply has too many flaws to pass enough and become really interesting.

It's hard to classify Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends. Is it an arcade racer? Definitely not, since most of the challenges are really hard to complete. Is it a simulation? Not even: too few tuning options and no introduction to the events. The game is packed with plenty of cars and tracks, but fails to truly deliver.

No longer a sidekick Clank tries to be the hero of a game, unfortunately he fails in this psp port for the Playstation 2. A well devised gameplay is plagued by camera issues, poor detailed visuals and a limping frame rate.

The remake process didn't work has expected. Outcast Second Contact is still an ok game, but nothing more.

Quotation forthcoming.

Praey for the Gods is a passionate homage to Shadow of the Colossus made by a team of just three persons. The experience is necessarily derivative but the boss fights certainly have their reasons: they are challenging and exciting although sometimes frustrating.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is riddled with contradictions and enveloped in a complex paradox: how can the best Call of Duty in recent years also be one of the worst ever? The answer must be found within the pages of a product that meticulously recycles the vast majority of its contents, while offering the worst campaign in the title's history. However, it perhaps nails the only aspect that a first-person shooter should truly hit: the multiplayer gameplay.

Asphalt 9: Legends is a great arcade racer for Nintendo Switch, with a huge single player career, awesome graphics and a local multiplayer mode via split-screen.

Two campaigns, one of which is really not what you might expect from a AAA game, some multiplayer modes and all too samey missions aren't enough to bring this game up to the hype's level surrounding the incoming Cameron's film. A bit too rough around the edges for those who are not waiting for the movie in awe.

Need for Speed ​​Payback is probably the richest and most varied episode of the series, thanks to a truly vast open world, full of activities and very different races.

Mutant Mudds is a polished and enjoyable platformer, but it's also utterly standard and unoriginal. It surely fits in the Nintendo 3DS digital offer, but it can be too basic for the PC audience.

Evoland is a good chance for nostalgic gamers to revisit the better memories from their childhood with RPGs.

Painful controls, an empty open world and a boring main quest are just few of the many flaws in the latest RPG by Crescent Moon Games.

There are moments of real horror in Shadow Corridor: these fragments and its strange atmosphere alone could satisfy the horror fan, but as a game there's not much more than a collection of scares.

Redemption Reapers has a fun and challenging combat system that's dragged down by a boring story and dull enemies. Its fluidity and fast paced turn system make up for the lousy narrative in a tactical experience that knows how to entertain.

Windward is not the remake of Sid Meier's Pirates you are looking for. It is a boring game with shallow mechanics who can entertain you for just few hours.

Dungeons & Dragons comeback is really disappointing: shallowness and excessive action don't do justice to the brand. Another wasted opportunity.

Disorder is a short platform game about depression and trauma processing. If you like the idea, try it.

Extreme Butoden is plain and simple the best Dragon Ball Z beat'em up available, but it suffers from its portable nature and a somewhat disappointing roster of fighters.

Fable fans will enjoy the plot and the details about Theresa and Albion, but after the fun combat is over, there's really not much else to keep you coming back. Kinect's detractors won't change their minds with Fable the Journey.

Zeno Clash II's free roaming mechanics are full of flaws, but the game has a good graphic style and its combat system is worth the fee.

Although it once again comes as the typical Naruto tie-in that fans should not be missing, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 for PSP offers only one "real" game mode, while the classic arcade mode has been eliminated. There are plenty of available characters, but the gameplay is getting old.

Drakengard 3 offers an irreverent plot, a good soundtrack and interesting boss fights, but everything is penalized by a repetitive combat system, camera issues and graphical slowdown.

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars has many technical flaws and start too slow to be fun. Some missions are good, many too many are flat and boring.

StarDrone Extreme is fun, immediate and cheap. The touch controls work very well and the game is pretty durable thanks to a single player mode packed with sixty levels.

Cracking Sands could be described as a mix between "Mario Kart" and "Motorstorm". There are some problems with the camera, but overall is another good game from Polarbit.

Game & Wario is a minigame collection with many ideas, but just a few of them are really good. As a GamePad showcase, it comes a little too late and without enough content; as a Warioware spin-off, it just looks bland and not too inspired.

With lots of missions, items and characters, Samurai Warriors: Chronicles is a must buy for all the fans of the series. However, this 3DS episode comes with no major changes from the previous releases.

Fair free-2-play game for Xbox 360, a good effort from Japanese company Toylogic. Visual style is nice, so the humor, but netcode is poor and need to be improved.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 is a realistic simulator like no other ones on the market.

After Surgeon Simulator, another crazy title from Bossa Studios hiding more than you could imagine from a slice of bread: making a toast has never been so hard and funny, like in I Am Bread.

Kinect Sports Rivals shows many evolutions on the technical side of Kinect, but still struggles to deliver a flawless experience, gamplay-wise. Across the six sports, however, a good amount of fun can be found.

The twelve minigames are, on average, really good; if you need a Wiimote Plus and you can play this game in multiplayer, buy it. Otherwise, just leave it on the shelves.

Tempest is hard and lack of some polishing, but is one of the best pirate’s game in the recent years.

Moon Diver is a classic platform game, very difficult to play but also very fun. It is an action game with some RPG elements and with an excellent multiplayer mode for four players. Recommended for those who love this genre of old school platform.

Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War does its best as a cover shooter, losing touch when it comes to go wandering around the map. Nonetheless, it's a solid game, with a nice and rich single player campaign.

Super Cane Magic ZERO is a crazy action RPG based on dogs, wizards and more dogs.

Starvoid has an interesting concept but lacks of depth and it's not as polished as a competitive title should be.

After a false start, Hunted: The Demon's Forge delivers some good things along the way. The game let you choose which character you wish to play from a certain point on, though you can't switch from Caddoc to E'lara anytime. There are some nice fights, a lot of different enemies to deal with, large maps and generally good graphics. The single player campaign also lasts a solid 13 to 14 hours.

Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone is hard as hell. For beat it you have to make practice with the slow control system, but in the end is a good indie JRPG.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition is a clunky release which feels older than it even was in 2003 and plays significantly worse as a multiplayer game.

​Devil May Cry HD Collection is the same game proposed in 2012. Nothing has been changed, especially the flaws.

Despite renewed graphics and controls, Dungeon Hunter III fails to implement a new microtransaction-based formula and turn out to be way less enjoyable than previous chapters.

Drag x Drive is a confusing and unfocused project that fails to offer a lasting and deep experience. Fun for a few games with friends, it lacks a sufficiently structured design to maintain user interest over the long term.

Magicka goes Vietnam and brings more firepower to the original formula. The use of weapons changes the gameplay and the overall feeling is good. Unfortunately the DLC is tiny but the price is balanced.

Dolmen is an irremediably mediocre and dated soulslike, extremely generic and uninspired, with just a couple of good ideas when it comes to gameplay and weapons.

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition is still an interesting metroidvania action platformer, though we expected a little more from the HD treatment.

Magic 2015 is the worse edition of Duels of the Planeswalker. It has too many limitations and it's nearly a trap that force players to spend their money.

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is a new beginning for the historic golf series from EA Sports. It's a brave move for sure, but there's a price to pay and it results in losses that previous episodes proposed in large quantity.

Cobra Kai: Card Game is a simple but fun card battler, with many references to the show and some nice, solid deck building mechanics.

The Edge of Fate has an amazing story and a revamped progression that works, but the new mechanics and the raid's difficulty prevent it from shining as bright as it could.

It is the fifth episode, but it could be the first and no one would realize. Cooking Mama: Bon Appétit! does absolutely nothing to put a little innovation into a recipe that is starting to taste stale.

Fort Solis is a narrative experience that we found truly fascinating, characterized by a very competent direction, by very solid interpretations and by a technical sector in Unreal Engine 5 that surprises for the quality it is able to express, although in terms of performance i results leave much to be desired. The adventure proceeds at a slow pace, although it ends quite quickly (perhaps a single session will be enough to get to the end), and therefore you may not even notice the frame rate drops, while the limits of such an essential gameplay will appear very clear to you whether it is intentional or not.

The main problem with this expansion is the price you’ll be charged to play it. Even for the ones who overlooked Underworld shortcomings, 800 MP could be too many for just a couple of hours of adventuring. We wish we had more in this package than just the new Lara’s swimsuits.

Ryse delivers what people where looking for, graphics to be remembered in the upcoming months. The problem is that this game plays like an idea which Crytek wasn't able to transform into an all around good project.

NBA Live 16 is a bit better than his predecessor: the gameplay has been improved, but still suffers from a fluctuating AI and some delay in response to commands. Unfortunately some good changes and some additional game modes cannot make a great game.

Conglomerate 451 is a good game with some limits but capable of effectively masking them.

Tennis World Tour 2 aims high, given the good work done by Big Ant Studios with AO Tennis 2. However despite the new graphics engine, the game does not excel on a visual level but still remains a fun and enjoyable title and for this reason we feel confident for the continuation of the franchise and videogame tennis.

SkateBird is just a regular skateboard game, make no mistake, but with a little twist. Its peculiarity, however, doesn't seem to add something very valuable to its gameplay, unfortunately.

James Noir's Hollywood Crimes is a surprisingly well-crafted game which will appeal fans of the Professor Layton franchise and puzzle games alike. It's not revolutionary and rather bland in some aspects but the sheer amount of puzzles and the intriguing story will keep players hooked for a few hours, untile they find that unsolvable puzzle which will stop them forever.

Assassin's Creed Rearmed comes with a fast matchmaking system and lots of things to unlock, most of which you have to pay for. The controls don't work good as they should, however, making the whole experience very cumbersome and annoying.

Drawn to Life: Two Realms marks the return of a minor but extremely interesting franchise.

We Are the Dwarves is an incomplete game. It wastes a lot of good ideas in a sea of problems that you thought would've been fixed at launch. But they didn't

Payday 2 is still a good, solid cooperative shooter, and the Nintendo Switch version offers plenty of characters, weapons, abilities and heists. However, graphics-wise the game fails to deliver and the lack of voice chat can't be ignored this time around.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX is the perfect game for those who have loved the 1986 game and want to replay it with modern graphics. The others can ignore it.

Hooga is a classic platformer, solid and fun, with some nice graphics, many different enemies to fight and a large number of levels. What a shame the touch controls don't react promptly, making the whole experience really frustrating.

Angry Birds Go! is colorful, simple and immediate, but also very repetitive.

Even tough Toy Soldier War Chest is a strategy game, action mechanics often prevail and can leave dissatisfaction feelings to all tower defense fans. Moreover we pointed out an evident lack of innovation and some questionable design choices.

After the marvel of the beautiful graphics and a first moment of thought that surely emerges about Rae's condition, there isn't really very much that remains for long after the short experience of Beyond Eyes.

Sonic Dash 2: Sonic Boom is a decent endless runner for the ones who still want some.

FIFA Mobile is all about opening pack of cards, while the real soccer action lies in the background and it’s also pretty disappointing.

Papetura is an adventure that fits into those point-and-click works that have become hallmarks of Amanita Design over the years, but it does not come close to the same playful quality. The paper world of this short (but cheap) game is excellently crafted, and the soundtrack could count on a proven industry expert, but it is not enough to recommend the game to all fans of the genre.

Quotation forthcoming.

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game it's a poor and hasty tie-in. The gameplay is based almost entirely on stealth action, but the exploration is reduced to a minimum. The combat system seems to work well, but it makes possible to kill the enemies just shaking the controller randomly.

Land-shaping tools and collectible cards apart, Godus delivers an average, casual sim experience.