It’s the end of the month and for some it’ll be the first payday of 2013. So, there are plenty of games out this week, right? Nope, just three. Luckily for those still paying off Christmas presents purchased with their credit cards, Hitman Trilogy HD and Omerta: City of Gangsters are both less-than-full-price releases. The …
There’s a lot to be said for novelty. This doesn’t sound like a terribly original concept for a mobile game: a cute giant cat roams the streets setting free animals held captive by evil scientists. But when it’s your streets, well, then you’ve got my interest. The level select screen is an OpenStreetMap of your …
Price drops are apparently the reason for the amount of shuffling going on in this week’s UK chart. Call of Duty: Black Ops II is back on top, dislodging DmC down to #4. FIFA 13 is at #2, Far Cry 3 at #4 and up from #10 to #5 is Assassin’s Creed III. LEGO Batman …
Owning a rare game is one thing; owning a sealed version of a rare game is quite another. But to own something that was never commercially available to the public? That’s taking collecting to the extreme. Plenty of things only available to industry insiders have been sold on eBay recently. A good example is this …
It’s not exactly a brilliant week for new games. That’s as far as retail releases are concerned at least – there are just two titles out, both of which were released in the US a few months ago. These are Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth on Wii U, which mysteriously slipped from the launch line-up, …
Rumour has it that when the developers of the Cablea’s Dangerous Hunts series played Far Cry 3 for the first time, they cried themselves to sleep. We can exclusively confirm that this rumour is untrue, because we just made it up. What is true though is that Far Cry 3 handles hunting brilliantly, easily making …
There’s a Hong Kong-based online retailer where, hidden away from the official console bundles and realms of third party peripherals, there’s a peculiar section titled “Other videogame consolesâ€. Here you’ll find a variety of dubious looking handhelds of all shapes and sizes, pre-loaded with hacks of NES games and more. We don’t condone piracy here …
Dante’s latest has shot to the top of the UK chart, becoming Capcom’s first UK #1 since Resident Evil 5 in 2009. However, all signs point to DmC not having to shift all that many copies to bag the top spot – it has only sold just over a third of what Devil May Cry …
Sonic, Mario and Mortal Kombat – if there was a franchise guaranteed to sell magazines back in the ‘90s, it was one of those. After appearing in arcades in 1992, Mortal Kombat had become a phenomenon, fuelled by the controversy caused in its wake. Today, Mortal Kombat looks incredibly tame. Comical, even. Back in 1992, …
Last week gave us hack and slashers Anarchy Reigns and Ninja Gaiden: Razor’s Edge, and this week we’re on the receiving end of another – DmC: Devil May Cry. As fans of the genre, we couldn’t have asked for 2013 to have got off to a better start. Reviews of the franchise reboot appeared online …
Not only does Microsoft have a list of the best selling XBLA games of all time on Xbox.com, but they also keep it updated daily. We doubt it changes dramatically on a day to day basis, but it’s a touch that we didn’t expect to see. Speaking of unexpected things, the official top 50 best …
Hundreds is confident: it sees no reason to explain itself, and assumes you’ll figure it out. That’s admirable, but there’s a fine line between confidence and, well, being a prick. Thankfully, Hundreds isn’t a prick – most of the time. And it’s right, you will figure it out. Touching a circle makes it grow, and …
It’s not just the weather that’s currently freezing in the UK – the top five titles in the top 40 are in identical places to last week. This means that FIFA 13 is #1 for a second week running. SEGA’s Anarchy Reigns manages to make an impact in the top 20, placing at a not …
After over a month of no new releases at retail, there’s finally something out you can run to the shops and buy – SEGA’s Anarchy Reigns. At £19.99 – or slightly cheaper online if running isn’t your new year’s resolution – it won’t break the bank either. Why is it only twenty quid? We have …
It’s time for another of our regular look backs at a video game magazine of old. This time our incessant rummaging around the attic has unearthed Future Publishing’s unofficial Dreamcast magazine, DC-UK. Word – by which I mean Wikipedia – has it that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe stopped Future Publishing from pitching for the official …