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Review Beast Quest (Switch) - Don't Be A Hero, Stick With The Books

Positively beastly

If you’re of a certain age, the Beast Quest books were likely a staple of your childhood. Having first launched in 2007 with Ferno the Fire Dragon, the series has been going strong for twelve years and shows no signs of slowing down. Including the first four books scheduled for publication next year, there are currently an...

• Thu 31st Oct 2019
• Reviews
• Nintendo Switch
• Beast Quest

Review Barbie and her Sisters Puppy Rescue (Wii U)

Pawfully Repetitive

If there's one thing truly great thing about rescuing puppies in Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue, it's not the satisfaction of doing a good deed, or the subsequent obedience training you can do to ensure well-behaved canine friends. No, it's the sweet bicycle ride Barbie has on her journey to puppy saving. Barbie and Her...

• Tue 24th Nov 2015
• Wii U
• Reviews
• Barbie

Review How to Train Your Dragon 2 (3DS)

How to train your dragon 2 do what?!

Handheld versions of 3D console games are always a tricky task; most of the successful ones avoid straight-up ports that are inevitably inferior to their home console brethren, and instead build the portable iterations from the ground up with 2D handheld gaming in mind. Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate did this...

• Wed 18th Jun 2014
• Reviews
• 3DS
• How to Train Your Dragon

Review How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Wii U)

Needs a bit more training

How to Train Your Dragon 2, developed by Australian studio Torus Games and published by Little Orbit, is a throwback to movie tie-ins of yore. Most big action films these days opt for cheaper, often microtransaction-based game tie-ins on mobile devices, like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and

• Tue 17th Jun 2014
• Wii U
• Reviews
• How to Train Your Dragon

Review Barbie Dreamhouse Party (Wii U)

Problems with plasticity

It's easy to dismiss licensed games like Barbie Dreamhouse Party as cheap cash-ins on popular franchises because, in all honesty, that's usually what they are. Creating a video game based on a classic line of dolls may seem like a step in the right direction towards our increasingly digital future, but it comes with the...

• Tue 4th Feb 2014
• Reviews
• Wii U
• Barbie

Review The Croods: Prehistoric Party! (Wii U)

Croodités

As a video game adaptation of Dreamworks' cave-dweller caper, The Croods: Prehistoric Party casts the film's characters in a Mario Party-style experience for up to four players. It borrows heavily from Nintendo's series, linking disparate mini-games together with a simple board game conceit. Like the movie's titular Neanderthal family...

• Fri 12th Apr 2013
• Wii U
• Reviews