The success of Star Wars doesn’t just come from its cinematic source material though. It’s the canny positioning of this franchise and its ability to evolve into other forms of media that have helped it emerge as a pop culture phenomenon. You look at the video game side of the equation, and this was a brand that was a recipe for success when handled correctly. Which explains the deliciousness of the amazing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Kingdom Hearts is a truly special series. The uncanny marriage of Disney and JRPG left many scratching their heads back in the day but who would’ve thought that it would actually work out this well. Most JRPGs are very outlandish, and for the most part, never really grounded in any sort of realism. It’s that very imaginative nature that gels so well with the fun and light-heartedness of Disney resulting in a game that somehow takes you back to simpler times, even if the story is anything but simple these days. This is a franchise I wish more people would play and with the third (well not technically as there were numerous spin-offs released in-between) game on the way this would be the opportune time to hop in.

I like Anthem. I just don’t love it…yet.

Resident Evil 2 returns to show why it's one of the most revered entries in the series, but its made completely new with expertly handled design change, gorgeous visuals and harrowing sound design.

If you hated engaging in a Far Cry 5 mission and found your perfect shot interrupted by a cougar chewing your face off, then Expeditions might just be right up your alley.

You asked, we listened and Geoff managed to sucker at least one person into helping me out with this post and being brave enough to not just venture into the comments section, but actually set up shop there. Thanks Hammer! With that labour of love being assigned to someone else, I’ve got no issue with bringing back the good, the bad and the ugly of the week, albeit with a few tweaks here and there.

It’s impossible to review every single game released in a year here at Critical Hit, and sometimes genuinely decent games slip through the cracks. So welcome to a new monthly column in which our writers have a look at gems of yesteryear that we didn’t review on release. This week we take a look at Dave Gilbert’s latest point-and-click foray into urban fantasy.

With Resident Evil 2 returning this month and reimagining Raccoon City as a deadlier hive of the undead, we started to thinking about the most important things in life: Which weapon would we want with us if we were ever stuck in the middle of a zombie apocalypse? When it comes guns, swords and all manner of exotic tools of destruction, video games have never been short on ideas for death dealers.

When you have been disillusioned by years of bad Tony Hawk games, and if the Trials did not do much for you, there are some alternatives to pull off some rad platform stunt work. FutureGrind is one of those alternatives, and it’s worth checking out. FutureGrind was first revealed back in 2014. It popped back up on everyone’s screen in …

The Far Cry series is a bit of an oddity in the gaming industry where the regularly released "numbered" titles pop up every few years and then the developers are set free to create weird and exciting new game between core series entries. Normally these games have nothing in common with the actual main game, but with Far Cry: New Dawn Ubisoft has decided to link the two... kind of.

Fun buns. Angel cakes. Bra buddies. Since the dawn of time, man has been obsessed with boobs and nobody knows why. Like magnets that work on your eyeballs, Fairy pillows and flopdoodles have been the very reason why humanity has gone to war for millennia, starting with Helen of Troy launching a thousand ships in the general vicinity of her …

There’s no sugar-coating one indisputable fact in the gaming industry: EA’s handling of the franchise, has been nothing more than a colossal f***-up of note. Five years into the contract, and the sole provider of Star Wars games on current console and PC platforms has managed to churn out…two games. Now granted, making video games isn’t easy. But if we had our way, we'd be swimming in dream games already.