Windjammers 2

Developer/publisher Dotemu

Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One

Release Out now

Apocryphally, in the early PlayStation years Sony’s development teams would often write the words for videogame genres onto slips of paper. These would be folded and placed into a bag. A team member would then remove two words from the bag and read out the combination, which offered a prompt for a new mashup for the team to explore. It’s easy to spot games born out of this sort of portmanteau creative approach, not least Data East’s 1994 , which combined beach volleyball