This week won’t go down in history as a good one for new releases, with only a trio of titles out – Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom and NFL Tour on Xbox 360 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 on DS. Pity we aren’t all living in Japan – Super Smash Bros. Brawl is causing …
With 17 million copies of Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training sold across the globe, you’d think that the titular professor would be rolling in it. Not so – in an interview with AFP it was revealed that he politely turned down royalties claiming that his salary of Â¥11 million (around £50,000) was enough to live on. …
Brief and vague summaries are what we’re about, so here’s a quick round-up of the latest PSP news and some of the updates on the PlayStation Store. » PSP firmware 3.90 is out now. The big news is that it includes Skype. So now you can use your PSP to chat with people overseas and …
There’s a little bit of history behind this PSP exclusive. You see, Rebellion were the first studio to have a go at pitting cinema’s illustrious baddies together way back on the Atari Jaguar, but after doing four Aliens vs. Predator titles in a row the license holders decided to let another studio (Monolith) have a …
It’s been a while since the last Burnout, so it’s good to see that it hasn’t become another fixture of EA’s yearly update rooster. Although there was Burnout Revenge on Xbox 360, this is the first proper next-gen Burnout and reviews have been pretty positive even though the crash junctions have gone. If you’ve got… …
Nothing has really happened in the games world for ages. While the real world gets the deaths of a great actor and the former president of Pakistan, and the entire world’s financial markets crashing*, the games world has had Street Fighter released on the Virtual Console for the third time and Sega doing a pun. …
Last week Resistance 2 appeared on our radar, impressing us (well, me) with its fancy pants and 8 player online co-op. This week some official shots have been uploaded, and it’s looking mighty nice. Parts of it bare an uncanny resemblance to Crysis, but with the nice “1950s Alien Invasion” theme that Resistance does well. …
With 8 million copies of Nintendogs sold in Europe alone, it’s a wonder that Nintendo hasn’t milked their puppy pampering sim further than the lame Dalmatian edition. Every other publisher has since cashed in on the DS virtual pet craze – just take a look at the DS charts – but we can’t turn down …
Just as the failed Gizmondo handheld had almost faded from our memories, not one but two Gizmondo-related news stories surfaced today. The history of Gizmondo is a long and corrupt one, but it’s worth reading about it if you’ve got the time – try this article on The Times Online. To cut a long story …
Publishers are curious beasts sometimes. THQ are a fine example – IGN has reported that the PlayStation 2 version of Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed has been canned, but it’s still on its way to PSP and Wii. The last time I checked, PSP games were selling about as well as puke pies, whereas …
Converting an Xbox 360 game to the somewhat more humble DS is a mammoth task in itself, but it’s nothing compared to the other challenge Kuju have had to undertake. That is, to bulk up this simplistic yet cherished shooter with enough new things to justify the £24.99 price tag – which is nearly six …
It’s not often this happens – all of the new releases this week are for Nintendo formats, with no less than six for the Wii. Two of these are from Sega – NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams and Ghost Squad. NiGHTS apparently has a few awful sections but is mostly good. N-Revolution reckons it’s better with …
I thought it was a bit bloody strange when SCi bought Eidos. “But SCi are small and rubbish, aren’t they?” That’s what crossed my mind a number of times. Now CEO Jane Cavanagh and two other senior managers have left the company, after reportedly failing to secure a sale of the inevitably struggling company. The …