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Review New Star GP (Switch) - A Stylish, Moreish Homage To The Likes Of Virtua Racing

We've certainly Senna lot worse

Every now and then you get an indie developer who you can rely on to deliver a banger pretty much every time. New Star Games is one such developer, having already scored healthy scores on Nintendo Life in the past for New Star Manager (which scored 8), Retro Bowl (9), and Retro Goal (8). Alongside its Switch...

• Wed 6th Mar 2024
• Reviews
• Switch eShop

Review Retro Goal (Switch) - An Addictive Slice Of Club Football With A Side Of Management

Or Soccer, if you insist

Back in February we had Retro Bowl, a simple but fantastic take on American Football, right in time for the Super Bowl. It was an accomplished port by New Star Games, which had originally enjoyed success with the release on mobile, and now we get Retro Goal in time for the football/soccer World Cup. Once again it's a light...

• Wed 23rd Nov 2022
• Reviews
• Switch eShop
• Football

Mini Review Retro Bowl (Switch) - An Addictive 8-Bit Throwback That's Appropriately Super

The Bears' offence is rubbish in this, too

(American) Football is a surprisingly complicated sport; it may not look like it as we watch enormous humans endanger themselves while wearing a lot of padding, but it's a game with playbooks and elaborate calls that sound to the uninitiated like the outbursts of lunatics. For most of us fans it's a simple...

• Mon 7th Feb 2022
• Mini Reviews
• Switch eShop

Review New Star Manager (Switch) - Football Management At Its Most Tactile

The Jurgen Klopp of football management games

Leicester City (in 2016) and Manchester City (in 2018) are two recent Premiership-winning teams that went about their footballing business in completely different ways, and there's a neat parallel to be drawn here with New Star Manager and Football Manager 2019 Touch. Both are ostensibly playing the same...

• Wed 30th Jan 2019
• Reviews
• Switch eShop
• New Star Manager