http://www.gamesasylum.com Gaming gibberish Fri, 09 May 2008 19:49:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The sinister looking characters aside, EA’s Boom Blox for Wii is apparently very good, scoring a respectable 9/10 from GamesRadar earlier this week. Speed Racer has been getting some respectable review scores too, which is surprising given it’s a movie license. Then again, it’s by the people behind the cult ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/09/shake-shake-shake-the-room/ Can you imagine this: a game for the Nintendo DS, made up of short mini-games, which you're supposed to play for a little while every day in order to improve some faculty? It's an original idea the likes of which we've never seen before. Except of course I'm lying. ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/09/ninja-reflex/ The charts are in for last week - GTA IV sold a crazy 926,000 copies in five days, with an estimated 609,000 of those being sold on launch day. Wii Fit has dropped down to #2, followed by Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Wii Play (yes, it’s still ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/08/crime-time/ Wii Fit is making the press again, but this time in a bad light. It’s all to do with a 10 year old girl who was apparently traumatised after the game told her that she's overweight. "She was devastated to be called fat," a family member said over at DISBoards. ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/07/i%e2%80%99m-just-big-boned/ Whereas Nintendo have let their sprightly mascots settle their differences with a spot of fisticuffs in the Super Smash Bros series, Sega have instead opted for a friendly game of tennis. The term ‘superstars’ is pushing it a bit though. Sure, everybody knows who Sonic and Tails are but Gum ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/06/sega-superstars-tennis-wii/ Press releases can be a great source of both amusement and depression. This month, vaguely game related FpsBrain takes the cake and rams it up the anal cavity of our soul. Why exactly? Because FpsBrain - the drink that claims to increase your mental powers for gaming performance (kind of ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/06/thinly-veiled-pr-stunt-of-the-month/ Patapon is like Space Channel 5 all over again. It looks pretty groovy, and yeah, it's rhythm action, but it'll be fine. Then I play it. And I remember how shit I am at rhythm action games. Actually, it's worse than that: it's also like Advance Wars all ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/05/history-repeating/ Why not spend this bank holiday Monday going on an adventure? An adventure with a chap from Games Radar, as he attempts to untangle fifteen years of tangled up controllers and various other videogame cables. It’s one of the more original features to pop up on the internet recently. Or ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/05/the-cable-guy/ Everybody is playing GTA IV, so just two games are making their appearance this week. Even Microsoft felt it was pointless releasing a new Xbox Live Arcade game with people busy stabbing tramps and shooting pigeons. There are though a couple of cheat save disks for GTA IV out if ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/02/bored-games/ As expected, Grand Theft Auto IV is breaking records and making headlines on its launch. In the UK alone, it sold 609,000 copies on launch day, making it the fastest selling game in the UK (a 20% sales increase over GTA: San Andreas). It's expected to sell around 6 million copies ... http://www.gamesasylum.com/2008/05/01/gta-making-headlines/