“There are new and exciting games available and more and more family orientated and mentally stimulating titles to grasp and hold the interest of all ages.” That’s what ELSPA’s Paul Jackson said about the record breaking software sales of 2006. So where are those “new and exciting” games in the chart of the year? Nowhere. …
One moment people – Boris Johnson, specifically – are claiming that videogames are turning children into “blinking, twitching lizards”, the next they’re receiving backing from the Department for Education and Skills. Well, one game is – Buzz: The Schools Quiz. It’s being developed by Brighton-based Relentless Software and will feature 5,000 questions from the Key …
There’s a small shake up in the top 5 this week, the most noteworthy going on being Canis Canem Edit moving up from #8 to #5. In mid-December it was right down at #23, so it’s good to see it spring back into the top 5. Of course, this is down to it being discounted …
Although the last PAL Dreamcast titles were released in mid-2002, over in Japan the system keeps on going. In fact, nearly nine years after it was launched in Japan, the start of 2007 will see no less than three new titles reach the hands of hardened Sega fans. Do we need to mention that all …
Eidos have picked up Spike’s Wii survival romp Necro-Nesia for a western release. They won’t be calling it that over here though. Nope, we get treated to the teeth-grindingly awful Escape from Bug Island. Necro-Nesia might not have meant anything, but at least it didn’t make the game sound like some cheesy 1960s B-movie. When …
There’s nothing like an analyst’s report to pad out a site’s news coverage. It’s been a vintage week. » Gamespot have information from In-Stat that, since there are now more consoles and handhelds with online capabilities, there will be more and more people playing online on console and handhelds in the future. Excellent work, analysts. …
Whereas Midway Arcade Treasures 3 stuck to racing games and Taito Legends 2 brought us plenty of previously import-only curios, this thirty-strong collection from Sega is pleasingly wide-ranging. Content spans from 1988’s Super Thunder Blade right up to 1996’s 2D version of Virtua Fighter II. That wasn’t the last game for the Mega Drive – …
It may have a hateful ‘z’ in the title, but this wasn’t originally anything to do with Ubisoft’s dire Catz and Dogz games. Love Love Hamster is the name it went by in Japan, and it has simply been rebranded to fit into the French publisher’s pet pampering portfolio. Over in the US it has …
It’s Internet law for us to mention Boris Johnson’s Telegraph column decrying that computer games rot the brain. It’s all too easy to criticise the piece, but there are a couple of genuinely intriguing points. For one thing, Boris clearly thinks that he’s making an original, outrageous point – “it is time someone had the …
A few years back there were rumours of Halo appearing on Game Boy Advance. Certain websites laughed at the idea, but not us: an isometric shooter set in the Halo universe would have worked just fine on the handheld. Plus, when the rumours emerged, Mircosoft were readying a Game Boy Advance version of Xbox launch …
Despite being reviewed months ago, Micro Machines V4 has finally managed to make it out onto Nintendo DS this week. Our best guess for the delay is that Codemasters thought all the lucky people who received a DS for Christmas will go out and buy it. The only other game out is another Codemasters effort …
By the time Sega were ready to release the Dreamcast in Europe and the US, a decent launch line-up had amassed. Sonic Adventure wasn’t the first 3D Sonic game, but it’s still arguably the greatest, Virtua Fighter 3 was almost arcade perfect, Toy Commander put a neat twist on war games, and Hyrdo Thunder was …
Although we didn’t review them, we are well aware that EA managed to balls up – no pun intended – this year’s NBA Live updates. One reviewer even reckoned that it was “literally” impossible to stop opponents from scoring. Wait just a second. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of 2K Sports coming to …
Paul ‘Mr Biffo’ Rose, former Teletext pixel-art master and all round nice guy, has finished penning his 288 page book Confessions of a Chatroom Freak. Extract-me-do: VWXman: hey there LoopyLisa21f (Biffo): Hello, dear. VWXman: so wot do u do then?? work, play, student, mummy, housewife?? LoopyLisa21f: I’m training to be a school teacher, and at …
Need for Speed Carbon has been toppled from top of the chart to #3, with Pro Evolution Soccer 6 and FIFA 07 taking places #2 and #1 respectively. Wii Zelda – which was at #11 last week – is out of the Top 40 entirely. In fact, there are no Wii-exclusives in the chart at …