When Nintendo finally made demos a permanent reality on WiiWare, I was optimistic. But that seems to have petered out with, at the time of writing, only one demo available, that being of 2009’s NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits. WiiWare in general is hardly flying high, too, with three or four releases a month of late – …
With so many new releases out last week, there was no way that this week’s UK chart was going to be a dull one. And it isn’t. Even with mixed reviews – everything from a 3/10 in EDGE to 8.0 from IGN – Dead Island manages to take the top spot. Below that at #2 …
Every month Matt pulls a magazine out for under his bed and gives it a fine going over. Stop giggling at the back there – we’re talking about video game magazines. This month: issue 9 of The Official Dreamcast Magazine from July 2000. Official magazines are dubious things. There was the time that the Official …
Our cynical side told us to be wary of Dead Island. The trailer caused a lot of excitement on the ‘net but fancy CGI alone isn’t enough to distract from the fact that it’s by the developers behind Call of Juarez – a series that hardly has a glowing reputation. Were we right to be …
Released: 1985 Formats: ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 Whereas games are nowadays often designed to have worldwide appeal, back in the ’80s many titles for the likes of the Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad were rich with British cultural references for that era. There was Flunky, a game set in entirely Buckingham Place; a platformer featuring …
The next time you come home from work in a bad mood because you ended up going 30 minutes over your shift or because an afternoon snack got jammed in the vending machine, spare a thought for Deus Ex’s Adam Jensen. As head of security for a biochip manufacturer, he gets sent down to the …
If you purchased Deus Ex: Human Revolution and/or Driver: San Francisco last week then give yourself a pat on the back – you’ve helped stop Zumba Fitness from flexing back up to the top of the chart. This week it’s at #3, under Eidos Montreal’s masterpiece and Ubisoft Refections’ racer. There’s another entry in the …
Never mind bringing down huge corporations and infiltrating army bases – Deux Ex’s Adam Jensen is brave simply for wearing a leather jacket with embroidery on the shoulders. The Deus Ex website gives you a chance to be just as brave as Jensen – there’s a clothing store complete with replicas of Jensen’s outfit, including …
A good reviewer will research a game that they have been requested to review by playing other examples of the genre beforehand. This is why I purchase kids’ games every now and then and give them a pasting – so if we receive a new animated movie tie-in or whatnot to review we’ll be able …
When Ubisoft bagged the Driver license from Atari they had a huge task on their hands – to restore the public’s faith in the series. Driv3r was the joke of the industry, after all. Ubisoft’s Wii conversion of Driver Parallel Lines and the PSP-exclusive Driver ’76 were a step in the right direction, and if …