Premier Manager 08 on PlayStation 2 is the only game out this week. The Official PlayStation 2 Magazine gave it a 4, calling it shallow and unrealistic – according to their review they managed to buy “Petr Cech†and “Michael Essien†for £5 million each. Ha! Next week is looking much better – at least …
If there wasn’t a game in development based on the upcoming animated Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, then the world would come to a complete stand-still. Brash Entertainment obviously don’t want that to happen, so they’ve snapped up the rights. Due out on PlayStation 2, Wii and DS, it’s apparently going to be a bit …
Things are finally looking up for Atari: after selling off a handful of studios and licenses and focusing on smaller, cheaper to develop titles (and endless Dragon Ball Z brawlers), their profits are up 13 percent on last year. They’ve still got some way to go though, as they’re currently $243 million in debt. Ouch. …
TRANSFORMERS, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE! Shout it with me: TRANSFORMERS, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE! There, doesn’t that feel better? Everyone loves Transformers, and even though the game’s pretty rubbish, it remains at #1. Pokemon Diamond also stays decidedly stationary at #2, but the Pearl equivalent drops to #7. Bit odd, that big difference. Ah well, I’m sure …
As Edge said themselves this month, EA’s new Simpsons game looks like it could actually be quite good. Rather than using the movie for inspiration, it’s instead going to parody videogames themselves, with a Medal of Homer level, a Frogger inspired mini-game and a nod to We Love Katamari already shown to the press. The …
It’s a surprise to find that the first DS wrestling game isn’t based on the WWE knuckleheads, but instead a tardy Jack Black movie tie-in. It’s somewhat less of a surprise to find out that it isn’t very good. It’s more than satisfactory if you look at it as a piece of merchandise though, including …
Midas Interactive are renowned for one thing: publishing the games nobody else will. However, it’s also what that they are most disliked for. Allow us to explain: some of their conversions of quirky Japanese PlayStation 2 titles – like Detonator, Rollercoaster World, Xtreme Express and Steel Dragon EX – are (just about) worth a tenner, …
This week’s round up of new releases won’t take long, as there are only two games out today – Trauma Centre: Second Opinion on Wii and Purr Pals on DS. Trauma Centre: Second Opinion was a Wii launch game in the US, but as Atlus Software don’t publish in Europe it has ended up in …
A party game staring Keith Chegwin: it’s the sort of thing you’d expect to find on a spoof website, alongside Nintentramps, Gary Bushell’s World Championship Goat Milking and Extreme Mobility Scooter Racing. But no: Cheggers’ Party Quiz is actually happening, and we have Oxygen Interactive to ‘thank’. Last week they also announced a sports quiz …
ELSPA and West Yorkshire Trading Standards were so proud of a piracy raid at a car boot sale in Halifax, they invited Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls to see the haul. This gives me the opportunity to write ‘BALLS’ on the forehead of an MP and pass it off as …
The most exciting thing to happen to the top 40 chart this week is that Mario Party 8 has re-entered at #9. Before it was recalled – Nintendo unknowingly used the word ‘spastic’ during one of the cut-scenes – it actually went in four places higher at #5. Resident Evil 4 on Wii is also …
Ecolis for the DS has an anti-pollution vibe, and also a hint of Pikmin about it. I don’t think I’ve seen a DS game as busy looking as this – the Japanese trailer below shows dozens and dozens of furry critters on the screen at once. You can get them to planet trees, while other …
It was always obvious that The Darkness were going to be a fad band; Justin Hawkins’s high pitched whiny voiced simply wasn’t meant to listened to for years to come. It’s a bit odd that Starbreeze decided to create a gothic first person shooter featuring the long haired hippy, seeing that the group disbanded in …
Obviously having paid a recent visit to Nintendo’s School of Pokemon Milking, Activision decided to release two Transformers games on DS – one starring the Autobots, the other the Decepticons. We aren’t stupid enough to buy both, but apparently they’re suitably different – not only do you get to play through the game from a …
A short while ago Sony got a scolding over Resistance on PlayStation 3 featuring a battle in Manchester Cathedral. What occurs in Global Defence Force isn’t as sacred, but within the first few minutes alone you can reduce Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament or the London Eye to a pile of rubble. If the …