You’re buying more budget tat

The BBC has properly reported on 2008’s video game sales figures, as released by ELSPA and GfK Chart-Track. Basically: we’re buying more games than ever, and across all formats. But it’s not that I’m interested in. Unit and pound figures have been released, meaning we know the average price people are paying for games on …

Read more

Do the locomotion

The January sales – which, oddly, have been starting in mid-December for the last few years – are a thing of brilliance. Not only are the big name games recently released cut in price (Mirror’s Edge for under £15? Thanks, Tesco!) but many retailers also flog off the titles that have been gathering dust for some time. A-Train HX, purchased for a nice £5.98 in Game, is one such example.

Read more

Flower, Sun and Rain

Flower Sun and RainFlower, Sun and Rain is almost unplayable, it looks like someone has kicked the graphics into the DS with a muddy boot and I couldn’t possibly recommend playing it to anybody, yet at the same time it’s a game that everyone should go out of their way to experience. Let me explain.

In Flower, Sun and Rain you play as Sumio Mondo, a man sent to Lospass island to prevent a terrorist from blowing up a plane. It sounds pretty normal so far, however the game was designed by Suda51, the mind behind Killer7 and No More Heroes, so it’s batshit insane. The way Sumio tries to stop the attack is to solve really stupid code puzzles.

Read more