Matt Tate
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While the PlayStation 5 remains as sought after as a Tottenham Hotspur trophy and an overpriced holiday abroad, those who have been lucky enough to get their mitts on Sony’s latest console in the months since launch haven’t exactly been drowning in games that really push the new hardware.
The phenomenal success of the Nintendo Switch seems even more remarkable each time you remind yourself just how spectacularly its predecessor failed.
As groundbreaking as the LittleBigPlanet series was, it never quite managed to elevate Sackboy to Sonic, Mario or even Crash levels of mascot status.
2020 has been a mostly awful year for obvious reasons, but for Mario fans it has at least in part also been a celebratory one.
Be they a bandicoot, a wisecracking hedgehog, a posh explorer or a jumping space marine, no video game character is as iconic as Mario.
In this very occasionally lazy pop culture age we live in, news of yet another remake is often met with a collective sigh.
Rather, it’s a platform for creating your own. It’s also a platform for creating animations. And interactive art installations. And music. And if you don’t want to do any of that, you can spend your time diving into the (often alarmingly warped) imaginations of others instead. Creating, consuming and sharing...
In Marvel’s Spider-Man, the high-profile PlayStation 4 exclusive that launched in the second half of last year, upgrading Spidey allowed him to leap effortlessly across entire skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan.
Considering the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s seemingly unending rule over the box office, it seems strange that – with the exception of last year’s brilliant solo Spider-Man game – you’re scratching your head for a Marvel game worthy of the films.
When you sit down to a play a 2D platformer, the temptation is often to race to the finish line as nimbly and stylishly as possible.
For context, when the third game in the Microsoft-exclusive open-world crime fighting series was first unveiled, most people would have assumed Brexit was a cereal, analysts were predicting the death of Nintendo, and Roy Hodgson was the England manager.
Fancy a bit racing? Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a bona fide classic of the genre. Irrepressible urge to punch your mate square in the nose? Avoid the bloody consequences by roughing him up in Arms instead. Unwavering confidence in your digital sushi-plating prowess? Apron up and get everyone round...
