Project Gamerz (yes, it’s a terrible, terrible name, but let’s move on) is a project set up by the Metropolitan Police, involving various technology companies including XLEAGUE.TV – where you’ll find a PDF press release you should at least skim-read. As far as I can gather, it’s basically the police putting on gaming sessions, to …
How weird is this: there are three games out this week with ‘lost’ in the title. There’s the Ubisoft’s tie-in of the perplexing TV series, the apparently quite good Xbox 360 RPG Lost Odyssey, and an incredibly belated conversion of Lost Planet for the PlayStation 3. Impressions of Lost seem pretty mixed so far, but …
The popularity of the Famicom (the Japanese NES) in the Far East can’t be underestimated. Nintendo themselves only discontinued repair services for the Japanese console last year. The last official release for the system was in 1994 though, in the form of Adventure Island IV, but since then a flow of pirate carts have steadily …
Well, some sections of the BBC News website anyway. Alright, not hardcore sections like Europe, where people even care about stories in non-English speaking countries. But we can at least do better than Also in the news. Though there is a games story on that page today. Damn it all. In the Business section is …
Three new entries in chart land this week – Unreal Tournament III at #9, FIFA Street 3 at #11 and Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity at #37. Sega have been a bit cheeky with Sonic Riders – the PlayStation 2 version is only £19.99 (although it can be found for £14.99 on the internet) but the …
Useless videogame accessories have been around for as long as videogames themselves. Who remembers the infamous Game Veil, a piece of black cloth designed for putting over your head while playing handheld games? Or those extra speakers for the original Game Boy, so that everybody in an entire train/bus/school/underground nuclear bunker can have their ears …
No FIFA Street 3 for PlayStation 2, PSP or Wii? That doesn’t sound like the EA we know. But given the mixed review scores it’s hardly a blow to any of the systems just mentioned. The PlayStation 2 actually has the most games released this week – a grand total of five, including yet another …
GDC 08 is underway in San Francisco, with the most significant piece of news being the announcement of Gear of War 2. The ‘fact sheet’ that Microsoft has issued is almost the opposite, merely pointing out that it’s a 360-exclusive again, uses the Unreal Engine 3 again, and sees Marcus Fenix battling the Locusts again. …
You can’t argue with £18. Not only because it’s a quantity of money, and therefore lacks the ability to formulate – let alone defend – an opinion of any worth. I am funny. But £18 for the Xbox 360 version of Sega Rally wasn’t to be ignored, so it was mine in the winter sale. …
All change in the top ten: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is #1 again, shoving Devil May Cry 4 to #2. FIFA 08 has risen from #10 to #6, while Burnout Paradise is already on the fall, down four places to #8. The Club meanwhile manages to hold on at #10. Both Maths …
Ubisoft aren’t as chummy with Nintendo in the way that Capcom or Sega are, but they did help bolster the Wii’s western launch with a large number of titles and continue to heavily support the system. With this in mind, quite a few people asked why Nintendo didn’t lend them the Excitebike name for this …
No, that’s not a late Christmas greeting – Telly Addicts is out on Wii this week. Obviously that’s not the biggest game out – that’s a combination of Battalion Wars 2, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings and Cooking Mama 2. Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles on PSP is bound to be worth getting your teeth into …
Patapon is looking like the best thing to happen to the PSP since LocoRoco. Featuring characters drawn by the French graphic artist Rolito, it’s your job to march the Patapons into battle by pushing various buttons in time with the beat. A sort of musical platform game, if you will. Reviews have been glowing so …
Confusion! Way back in 2002, EA were working on an Aliens game for PlayStation 2 entitled Aliens: Colonial Marines. Some screenshots were released, but eventually the game was blasted out of an airlock and into a dark void. Now according to US magazine Game Informer, the name of the Aliens game Gearbox are developing for …
Remember the fuss about Starfox having to be renamed in Europe? Well, it would seem that publishers have no qualms about releasing two almost identical sounding games in this day and age. Enter Agetec’s Puzzle Guzzle for PSP, and Blast’s Puzzle Buzzle for PS2 and DS. Which of course both sound a bit like Tatio’s …