I was awake between 4am and 5:30am this morning, due to a combination of a dodgy stomach and a hungry cat. Mainly the stomach – the cat went back to sleep after getting some food.

I was using my iPhone in bed, after spending half an hour on the loo, and noticed that Ghosts’n Goblins, sorry, GHOSTS’N GOBLINS, had an update, which has added in a whole new game mode. That’s a bit of surprise so soon after release. And, even more of a surprise, it was free.


It’s Boxers mode, where you spend the entire game in your underwear, without armour, so one hit kills you. I also think the enemies might be faster and there might be more traps. It was hard to tell, it being five in the morning in the morning and all. However, even in the early hours, I was able to tell that the new mode’s an awful lot of brutal fun and should breathe new life into the game for me.

There’s also a new leader board for Time Attack. I don’t know if that’s for Boxers mode – unlike the standard mode, you get continues in this version so time-based leader board might make sense – or whether it’s for completing the main game in a single run, or what.