New Arrivals - Games & Hardware
All the latest games, hardware, figures, merchandise, gaming magazines etc that have recently arrived in store are here. Use the filter below to select your console and narrow your search
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Switch
Shoot Em Up
Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters 2 and Raiden Fighters Jet make up the trio of this compilation that goes in all guns blazing and takes no prisoners. The soundtrack is relentless, the in game characters given a millennial make over, yet veteran gamers may fear not as the action remains true to its pure adrenalin roots. Some may even be tempted to take advantage of the different play modes to flip back through a particularly turbulent section. A fine tribute to a much-loved series.
🥇Game of the Week
Game of the Week Switch
Shoot Em Up
Much loved series with so many projectiles, you may find your retinas trying to move in different directions to each other. More coloured bullets than a chameleon too, but hopefully that makes them easier to see. The well respected series combines traditional shooting action with modern generation graphical gee-whizz to create spectacular, pyrotechnical results. Game on!
Sony Hardware
Handheld
A very sleek version of the 2000 series PSP handheld which looks great in terms of perfect curvature and crisp, bright display. Ergonomically deserving of an award.
PS2
Action
A cracking action title with appropriate name as or heroine storms around town looking for small perches to hide behind, rearm Time Crisis style and then let rip using the cursor and some serious sub machine guns. The combination of freedom of movement and a nice cursor system for the shooting work a treat. Theres something cool about the seemingly serene heroine of the title in full motion giving it some to the bad guys. The arenas are nicely varied and the DVD gets you in the mood.
PS2
Shooter
More serious than some of Namcos light gun games on the PSX, but well executed with a precision on the collision detection a Ninja would be proud of. Shurikens reign in and a quick trigger finger is essential to keep on top of the stealthy assailants. Quick paced and Namcos arcade heritage stands it in great stead to make such titles with aplomb.
PS2
Simulation
A good license to add much to the pachinko genre as steel balls tumble to many aggressive sounding threats and grim looking outcomes from the Mad Max of the anime world. This is the updated Special Edition with even more shouts of ‘Kiai.’
PS2
RPG
Fine history to this hard hitting mech series right from the Super Famicom days and the fifth installment sees it reach a real epoch with a superbly realised 3D world. As you’d expect with Square the attention to detail is immense and moody, sometimes grim lighting effects add to the destructive, apocolyptic atmosphere. Liberal use of the flamethrower soon brightens things up, but Genki loves the feel of the chunky gattling gun ripping through mecha metal.
PS2
Action
First Sakura Taisen title developed solely for the Sony machine focuses soley on character interaction. Parisien dancers, a Japanese detective and the usual high jinx that have made the series so incredibly popular.
PS2
Action
Based on the story of ordinary farmers rebelling against their unjust samurai leaders with plenty of slicing and dicing in this historical epic.
PS2
Sports
Features wrestlers from the All-Japan Pro Wrestling, Noah and Zero-One Productions federations, Square shows itfs a mean competitor in the ring. A triumph of quality over quantity with detailed wrestler graphics even down to the facial freckles and subtle nods of realism with spots of blood and grimaces of pain. Control is intuitive with three varying strength attacks and simple button bashing will not win the bout, merely tire the wrestler out. Button mashing is used effectively though: none more so than the frantic battle to get back up after a hefty pile driver.
PS2
Sports
Colossus wrestling game with a huge amount of wrestlers to select across a wide variety of disciplines making this a firm fan’s favourite. Gameplay involves basic strikes and more complex grappling with the joypad being manipulated in the way players want their opponents head to twist. With so many moves, wrestlers, costumes – even intro music there is a lot here to keep the determined grapple fan pinned for the count.
PS2
RPG
Plenty of freedom of movement and no random battles as you can see the ogres coming as Capcom makes some bold decisions to keep the franchise’s Breath minty fresh. Some fan boys had their noses point out of joint with Capcom’s save facility: a token is required for a proper save. Whilst there is a temporary measure, it can only be used once so it prevents wiping over any unfortunate turns of events. Life like character design – thats if you live in a new age anime world, but the players are totally believable and soon have you immersed in their world.
PS2
Sports
Colossus wrestling game with a huge amount of wrestlers to select across a wide variety of disciplines making this a firm fan’s favourite. Gameplay involves basic strikes and more complex grappling with the joypad being manipulated in the way players want their opponents head to twist. With so many moves, wrestlers, costumes – even intro music there is a lot here to keep the determined grapple fan pinned for the count.
PS2
Sports
Cel shaded race fun with the comic book style graphics bringing the joy back to racing. The unusual graphics, whilst bringing to mind Initial D, also serve to permit a fast frame rate thereby adding to the thrills and spills. All egged on by the cheesy voice actor who may have been hired from the Daytona series and you have a recipe for fats race track frolics.
🏆Brilliant!
Brilliant PS2
Action
Even by the epoch defining Japanese standards, this limited edition really raises the bar with the customisable figures coming with a display case. Not forgetting the game of course as the mecha suits are put through their paces with seamless anime cut sequences and more speed lines than a bumper edition of Shonen Jump.
Super Famicom
Sports
Incredibly fast arcade action including Collina look a like referee. The Human football game engine first seen in Super Soccer on the SNES is taken to new levels of sophistication here. The Extra Package version comes with extra player data booklet.
PS2
A Bit Special
Players trace patterns to launch attacks. The more elaborate the pattern, the more powerful the move, like a fighter. Full title: Bakufuu Slash Kizna Arashi.
PS4
Shoot Em Up
Battle Garegga, Feveron, Kingdom Granprix plus Ketsui with the M2 gadget feature gives even the most grizzled shoot em up veterans plenty to get their teeth into, providing they remove the grenade pin in there already. The PS4 seems to have taken on the Xbox 360s mantle of master of shooters.
Nintendo Hardware
Accessory
A small device for the GameBoy Pocket, Light or Color allowing users to get an extra boost in charge without using up batteries. The unit plugs into the charger (not supplied) and soon charges up to give extra gameplay time.
Brilliant Switch
Shooter
Few will forget their first blast on Kikikaikai. The initial barrier was to be able to pronounce it to the local importer in the pre-internet days. And despite being just the early nineties, few gamers were sufficiently cross-pollinated with games of its ilk to understand the ensuing cultural chaos. Not that it requires understanding with fast paced shooting fury the order of the day. Yet a randy raccoon tanuki friend that can deflect shots with his tail did raise a few eyebrows. The Shinto inspired Japanese blaster draws on mythology as necks extend inexplicably and one-eyed umbrella ghosts hop past. Cultural references aplenty all in a luscious sprite-based world driving gamers on to see more. Unrelenting pace as you the priestess battle against all the evil of underworld armed with nothing more than a purification branch. A Super Famicom classic well-worthy of this fine update and hopefully new and old audience with new playable characters. Known in the West as Pocky and Rocky Reshrined.
Soundtracks
Soundtrack
The breath-taking soundtrack to the sold-out concert that was held in Kyoto to celebrate thirty years since the release of the Disk System version of Zelda back in 1986. Many may claim to have been there, like the Caravan gaming events of the Eighties, yet now we can all be taken on a musical voyage that encapsulates the spirit of adventure dreamed up from Miyamoto san’s childhood.