Last week Crysis 3 and Metal Gear Rising went head-to-head, resulting in a bloody battle for the top position in the UK chart. Konami’s hack and slasher missed out on the top spot by 5,500 copies, having to make do with #2. Had it been released this week, a week that sees very little of …
Since bagging what remained of Midway in 2009, Warner Bros. hasn’t done a great deal with Midway’s assets. They published the Mortal Kombat game NetherRealm were working on at the time, there have been a couple of half-baked retro collections – one for consoles, and one for iOS – and a Spy Hunter game was …
In a time when review scores matter more than ever, most publishers and developers are putting some long overdue attention into their licensed games. A few duffers do still slip out though, in hope that people will buy them based on name alone. We’ve put our thinking caps on and tried to formulate remedies to …
A thread of darkness is part of the appeal – and indeed function – of folklore and fairy tales. Simogo’s Year Walk – based on the Swedish tradition of year walking, a ‘vision quest’ meant to offer a glimpse of the future – puts the darkness firmly front and centre. It’s a puzzle-adventure, where the …
For the first time in ages, this week’s UK chart has two new entries in the top two positions. Those two are Crysis 3 – which is the new number one – and Metal Gear Rising: Revengence. Chart-Track reports that there’s a gap of 5,500 copies between them. Although EA’s shooter and Konami’s hack and …
We almost didn’t notice, but it turns out the PS Vita is one year old this weekend. Being the modest little handheld that it is, we thought we’d bake it a cake and surprise it with the birthday bumps! When the PS Vita was first announced in January 2011 we were reasonably impressed with it, …
As you may have noticed from the flood of coverage online this week, Sony have unveiled the PlayStation 4. Or haven’t, in that we didn’t get to see the box itself. But we could argue over semantics all day. (We won’t.) They did show the new DualShock 4 controller, so let’s focus on that. I …
By quite some margin, this week is the best week of the year so far for new releases. Let’s not waste any time cracking on. Metal Gear Rising: Revengence and Crysis 3 are going head-to-head for your hard earned cash. We were a little apprehensive about Metal Gear Rising: Revengence given its troubled development, but …
Tonight at 11pm GMT Sony is holding a conference in New York, where everyone is expecting the unveiling of the PlayStation 4. The live video stream of the event followed by our live blog is below. Update: They did in fact announce the PlayStation 4, due for release this Christmas, as well as a bunch …
Most web-based mini-games are designed with one goal in mind: to promote full price titles. A lot of them are terrible, but there are a few exceptions perfectly suited for a quick play during a lunch break. Here’s a quick recap of the freebies found on Sony’s and Microsoft’s websites for all the office-bound bods …
If there’s one thing we pride ourselves on, it’s finishing a game before we review it. There have been a few exceptions over the years, such as 50+ hour RPGs like Dragon’s Dogma and Dark Souls, but in general we don’t write our reviews until we’ve seen the ending credits roll. If things went to …
Even with a universal mauling – expect for EGM’s rather suspicious 9.0 review – Aliens: Colonial Marines has become the UK’s new number one. Not only that, but it’s also the biggest release of the year so far. That means that it had a better launch than EA’s Dead Space 3 and Capcom’s DmC. We’re …
Usually when a format is on its last legs the release lists for it are full of licensed tat aimed at younger gamers and half-baked budget games. With this in mind it was a bit of a surprise when Sega announced Aliens: Infestation back in 2011. With WayForward at the helm, who were also working …
According to a poll in one of the red top newspapers, videogames are high on the list of things that women choose to buy for their partner on valentine’s day. Seeing as Aliens: Colonial Marines is the only retail release this week, we wouldn’t be surprised if a fair few loved up gamers are going …
Just in case you’ve been in cryogenic sleep since 1992, Alien 3 is the one where there was only one Xenomorph and not a great deal happened. The movie had a very difficult production and at one point was even being filmed without a finished script. This ultimately led it to it receiving very mixed …