Steve Wright
Steve's the owner of Stevivor and an active games journalist nearing twenty (TWENTY!?!) years. He's a Canadian-Australian gay gaming geek, ice hockey player and fan. Husband to Matt and cat dad to Wally and Quinn.
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Rebellion’s known for its long-running Sniper Elite franchise, but Atomfall is something entirely different. Equal parts survival shooter, mystery, and sci-fi RPG, it sets out to something unique and, for the most part, accomplishes its goal.
Forgive me in advance, for I couldn’t resist: the original Citizen Sleeper was indeed a sleeper hit, a narrative choose-your-own-adventure journey that I picked up simply because it happened to be on Xbox Game Pass. I fell in love almost instantly, enraptured in its sci-fi, ever so dystopian world.
It’s an understatement to say that 2025 has been rough… and brace yourselves, because we’re still in January. As people, for some inexplicable reason, bother to debate whether or not Elon Musk threw up two Nazi salutes at Trump’s inauguration (he did), Sniper Elite Resistance has come out at a perfect time. Not only does it remind us that fascism is bad, but of the importance of fighting back.
Updated review [15 January 2025]: Another system, another version of a classic. 2010’s Donkey Kong Country Returns first debuted on the Wii, before 2013’s Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D spiced things up on the 3DS. Now, 2025 offers another chance to play — and with less difficulty, even compared to the 3DS version — thanks to Donkey Kong Country Returns HD on Switch.
I love a good walk and talk. Some of my favourite television series — most notably, Star Trek The Next Generation and Buffy the Vampire Slayer — always used the technique to convey copious amounts of exposition as Picard and Riker exited a turbolift on the way to a transporter room, or as Buffy and Giles made their way to the library.
Everyone has a Mario Party story at this point, and most of them end up with the storyteller either coming from or being utterly destroyed because of some questionable Star allocations at the end. If you’re out to relive past stories, make new ones, or potentially alienate yourself from a new friendship group, Super Mario Party Jamboree is the latest in the long-running franchise.
The original Dead Rising was a thing of legend back in 2006. It was certainly ahead of its time, delivering an impressive amount of on-screen zombies whilst also turning heads for the amount of Xbox 360 consoles it was red ringing.
The Dead by Daylight franchise is no stranger to offshoots with nothing to do with asynchronous multiplayer, and custodian Behaviour Interactive is adept at finding the right partner to make those happen. Hooked on You, a dating sim set within the bleak, desolate world of killers and survivors, was in the right hands of Psyop, a team that had previously made waves with KFC dating sim I Love You, Colonel Sanders!
Black Myth Wukong is the latest retelling of the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West, this time developed by locals at the China-based (slightly problematic, allegedly sexist) GameScience.
I’m old enough to remember hours and hours of entertainment provided by my family’s NES console. We never had a R.O.B. or a Power Glove — but my friend Chris had both, and the only thing I remember about them both is that neither lasted very long — but we did have a light gun and played the combo of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt on a seemingly everlasting loop.