Matthew Smail

StudioMDHR’s rock hard platform shoot-em-up Cuphead makes its way onto Nintendo’s handheld Switch console

Are you a console gamer looking for a relaxing crafting game that provides hundreds of hours of entertainment draped in a sugary layer of primary colours and soft melodies? If so, then My Time At Portia might be the game you’ve been waiting…

I don't recall music being a central theme for many board games, but lately that trend is changing. Last year we previewed Rap Godz from Board Game Brothas, whilst one of our featured reviews during 2019 will be Moaideas Symphony No. 9. In…

Nintendo Switch owners are already spoiled for choice when it comes to high quality twin stick shooters, not to mention games with a strategic focus. It’s rare for a game to merge strategy and action as seamlessly as X-Morph: Defense does,…

Resident Evil 2 takes some of the most-loved aspects of the digital original and translates them onto the tabletop.

In 2456 they awoke. Whilst I had always known of their palpable hatred for humankind, I had never known the true wrath of the Bruggan Zealots, nor faced them in battle. For two hundred and fifty years they had watched, seething at us with…

Consonant please, Gandalf... I mean Carol... What on Earth is happening here?  For the uninitiated, Spell Smashers could easily be seen as just another throwaway fantasy deck-building game. Look closer, however, and you'll discover that…

11:59 is a real time, dice rolling microgame that pitches two players against each other as nuclear powers in an arms race that could end the civilised world. All is not lost however, because despite the presence of physical components…

A board game attempt at a classic video game, The Oregon Trail Game: Journey to Willamette Valley is an adaption of a giant, but how well does it all come together?

With a straightforward and enjoyable theme, Veracruz 1631 is fairly endearing — a feeling that is only enhanced by the speed of play.