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Flashback ONE35: two-minute review For the terminally—unfortunately—online, the ONE35 Camera's promise is an alluring one: a digital version of the disposable camera, offering the same sort of tech you would have got in the 90s with photos that feel like they were shot on film. That means no screens, a xenon flash and no controls barring a pleasingly tactile winding wheel and a toggle to turn the flash on. It's a similar concept to the Camp Snap Camera , only Flashback goes one step further – it limits you to the number of photos much like a roll of film, and you have to 'send the photos' off to be developed one the roll is done. That's right, when you've loaded in one of the three different types of film from the Flashback app, you've only got 27 snaps before you have to send the photos off to be developed, with a 24 hour wait time before you can see them. This concept enough to give the Flashback ONE35 an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign . I...

Review info Platform reviewed: PC Available on: PC, PS5 Release date: February 8, 2024 My friend is screaming my name in a Discord channel like an accusation. I know what I’ve done. I’ve killed her again in third-person shooter Helldivers 2 . Her death is down to a combination of my poor spatial awareness and lackadaisical approach to utilizing high explosives - and while I protest that it isn’t my fault, it is.  Helldivers 2 is a fairly unique, third-person co-op shooter that drops players into procedurally generated killing fields to accomplish missions for the glory of New Earth. It owes a debt to Paul Verhoeven’s film adaptation of Starship Troopers , and some of its best moments feel like they could have come from this movie themselves. It's deeply satisfying to fire a disposable anti-tank munition into a bug hole to close it, turrets barking as they chew through the advancing hordes, or to be saved by close-range air support that crashes into the dirt around you...

Review info Platform reviewed: PS5 Available on: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC Release date: February 2, 2024 Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has a confusing opening. The superhero shooter’s tutorial starts you in medias res, leaping around with a full suite of abilities. It’s disorientating, and I found myself wondering if I’d accidentally been thrown further into the game by some sort of glitch.  Finish that tutorial, which gives you the basics on how each character controls as you guide them through the half-destroyed city of Metropolis, and you’ll be sent back to the actual start of the game, with your antiheroes stuck in prison and recruited for a secret mission. Brainiac has taken control of Metropolis, and you guys are the advance team, set to pave the way for a shadowy government agency to roll in and save the day.  The kicker? Brainiac has subverted the Justice League itself. And your collection of unpowered dweebs is going to have to go toe to toe wi...

Review info Platform reviewed: PC Available on: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S Release date: December 7 Inside every player of The Finals there are three wolves of different sizes: small, medium, and large. Which you pick will severely change the way you play The Finals , a multiplayer first-person shooter developed by Stockholm-based Embark Studios.  These wolves are the three different sizes of player character: Light, Medium, and Heavy. As you might expect, the Light class is smaller, moves fast, and has a scant few hitpoints. The Heavy is sluggish and a large target, but can soak up a lot of punishment. But weight isn’t the only trait, and each class has different roles too:  if you want to kill players you play as the glass-dagger Light class, if you want to support players you play as the medium and if you want to lay waste to the entire environment and shape the arena with the game’s destruction mechanics, you play as the Heavy.  Things that make you go bo...

Review info Platform reviewed: PC Available on: PS5, PC, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One Release date: November 10, 2023 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a disappointment. A DLC hastily repackaged as ‘full’ sequel, it’s hard to fathom why Activision decided that the best way to celebrate Call of Duty ’s 20th anniversary was releasing a clearly rushed direct sequel in the Modern Warfare series, trading on fan’s goodwill to try and cover for a massive stinker. So it goes.  There are flecks of brilliance here, and it’s clear that Activision’s collective of Call of Duty developers (Sledgehammer Games take the lead here) have talent. While there are accusations swirling around Modern Warfare 3 ’s development time , the full picture hasn’t emerged yet. However, there’s no denying that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 feels rushed and, while some polish might reduce some of the friction in the first-person shooter game’s multiplayer, there are substantial flaws in the stru...

Review info Platform reviewed: PC Available on: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S Release date: November 6, 2023  When football fans talk about the beautiful game, there’s a pretty good chance they’re not talking about football, but management simulator Football Manager , a grand strategy game about looking after a real-world football team and taking them to glory. Football Manager 2024 is the latest in the series, and there are so many spreadsheets here you’ll truly feel like you’re a key part of a huge, unfathomable business. Never played? Football Manager 2024 and the games preceding it put you into the shoes of the manager of a football team, trying to balance the transfer and wage budgets to bring in the right players while ensuring you’re keeping your squad happy and training well enough to perform. Get it right, and your team is a well-oiled machine capable of taking on the world. Get it wrong, and your team is still a well-oiled machine, but that machine is a motorize...

Review information Platform reviewed: PC Available on: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC Release date: November 2, 2023 It only takes the length of the pulse-pounding TV station shootout that kicks off first-person shooter Robocop: Rogue City for you to feel like ol’ chrome dome himself. Whether it’s the recognizable Auto-9 in your hand, the clunking gait, or just the fact your 9mm pistol is blowing off limbs with spurts of claret, it’s immediately apparent that this isn’t just another run-of-the-mill shooter, but a faithful adaptation of the Robocop universe. Rogue City makes a hell of a first impression, and while it doesn’t deliver on its promises all of the time, it’s charming and full of ambition. It’s also a hell of a lot of fun, a combination of my own personal nostalgia and the fact that it’s a very solid shooter that constantly mixes up what you’re fighting against. There are, however, a lot of bugs here - I had to restart at a checkpoint several times because ...

Two-minute review Govee's M1 LED Strip Light is truly next-level. Govee say the M1 is the brightest light they've ever made, boasting this is twice as bright as their earlier models thanks to 60 LEDs in every meter of lighting. And, after installing it in my office area, I can safely say they're not wrong; it's so bright that it washes out the wall it's shining onto, which is a look I quite like.  The M1 is vibrant and there are a host of different lighting options available to fit a variety of moods or vibes, including the ability to react to music; I found over 60 options in the app when I totted them up. Most of these were too intense for me, but can be desaturated or toned down using the app. In fact, all of the M1's coolest features are locked away in the Govee app, but once I'd synced it up to my Google Home, it was easy enough to ask Google to turn my lights on and off, only dipping into the Govee app if and when I wanted a more drastic change.  S...