This Week’s Games Ping! Ping! Ping! That’s the sound of Microsoft and Sony flicking elastic bands at each another. It’ll be genuinely interesting to see what does better in next week’s chart – Halo Wars or Killzone 2. There are more 360s out there than PlayStation 3s, but a Halo-themed RTS isn’t going to be …
I am not a snake but, unlike our delightful friends across the pond, I shorten mathematics to maths, not math. I had a number of American lecturers in my now distant mathematical past, so it doesn’t really bother me, but I like to make the distinction nonetheless. Getting to the point, Nintendo is going to …
Well that’s a relief: LittleBigPlanet is coming to PSP in 2009. A relief because it’s still the only thing really tempting me to buy a PlayStation 3, so I don’t need to now. It makes sense though. With neither PSP nor PlayStation 3 exactly flying off the shelves, the best tactic is to throw every …
Noby Noby Boy is said to be both good and cheap. The same goes for the new Noby Noby Boy T-shirts that Panic are selling. They’re $24.95 a pop, and yes, they do ship to the UK. They’ve still got some Katamari Damacy shirts in stock too, including a fetching fuzzy orange one.
UK Charts I bet Capcom wishes it had released Street Fighter IV sooner – it has taken the top spot of the top 40 chart. There are two other new entries in the top 10 also – PC thing Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II at #3 and the lovely Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection …
This Week’s Games There’s bound to be something out this week to tickle your fancy. Street Fighter IV has been getting excellent reviews and it’s also surprisingly cheap online – £27.99 at HMV seems a sensible buy. 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is also said to be jolly good fun (as 50 Cent himself …
Sega has slipped up! Next to the caption for Sonic 2 on the back of the new Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (known as Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection in the US, for some bizarre reason) somebody has used an image of Sonic 3 by mistake. It’s an easy blunder to make in all fairness – …
Brash Entertainment must be the worst thing to happen to videogames for a long time. After pumping out tat like Jumper, Space Chimps and Alvin and the Chipmunks they went bankrupt, leaving a handful of independent developers up poo creek and ditching several games in the process. These apparently included Saw, Prison Break, Clash of …
It’s all well and good using videogame artwork as desktop wallpaper, but a chap named Orioto has gone one better and drawn his own based on retro videogames. They’re available at Deviant ART to download and look dazzling. Shame Sega can’t make a 2D Sonic game that looks as good as this.
UK Charts Lily Allen’s The Fear is #1 in the music single chart; F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin is #1 in both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 charts. Conspiracy? I think so. It can’t knock Wii Fit off the top of the Top 40 UK chart though, having to make do with #2. There are also …
Pop-Up Pirate! ranks below even Buckaroo on the scale of incredibly basic childhood games. You insert small plastic swords into slots in a barrel until, by pure chance, you hit the slot that makes the pirate pop out of the barrel this time. The infant entertainment comes from the pirate popping out of the barrel, …
New Scientist – as proper a scientific website as you could ask for – brings news of a European emulation project called KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable). It’s going to cost over €4 million, and last 36 months. Our own University of Portsmouth is one of the participants. It’s aim is wide: to safeguard access …
This Week’s Games It’s Friday the 13th, the scariest day possible. So what do we have released today? Hotel for Dogs, Disney’s Bolt, Ben 10 and Petz. Though admittedly they’re all on DS, hardly the format of choice for developers trying to scare people. FEAR 2: Project Origin sounds more appropriate. Unless I’m completely out …
It feels a little strange seeing big game releases at this time of year. Well, perhaps it’s not that strange – February is still a fairly dull, cold and wet month for many, an ideal time to sit inside and forget your troubles with a game. Maybe I’m just suffering bus stop syndrome. It feels …
The Eidos share price has more than doubled this morning, on the news that Square Enix has made an offer for the company. The motivation is obvious, and as Yoichi Wada, President of Square Enix, puts it: “Eidos’ products are highly complementary to our business and will accelerate our aggressive expansion into Western markets.” Chairman …