There’s every change that you’ve already been convinced by others of the merits of Thirty Flights of Loving. But if not, here are six good reasons to bloody well buy the thing: It’s interesting. More interactive short story than game, it requires no gaming skill to speak of, just that you be intrigued enough to …
Well, here’s a news story that we hoped we’d never have to write. After twenty years of existence under various different guises – including Super Play and N64 Magazine – Future Publishing’s Nintendo Gamer, as it’s currently known, is to end next month. The final issue will be with subscribers within the next week or …
This year has been full of surprises, but none have been more pleasant than Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. The first episode proved that the point-and-click adventure genre still has plenty of untapped potential – had this series been handled differently, we don’t think it would have ended up being as tense or as exciting. …
For a third week running we’re being treated to a handful of incredibly strong releases. Considering it’s the typically quiet summer period, this is most peculiar. Pleasing, but peculiar. Madden NFL 13 isn’t one that’ll interest many in the UK, but the Madden games do usually at least chart quite highly for a week or …
Our four part ‘forgotten heroes’ series draws to a close, but you may have noticed that this one is different from the rest. Rather than focus on Nintendo’s forgotten heroes we decided just to look at those from the N64 era. It’s a system that we don’t talk about much on Games Asylum, even though …
Even with three days of extra sales behind it, Darksiders II hasn’t been able to dislodge Sleeping Dogs from the top of the chart. We’d imagine that THQ are pretty happy with it entering at #2, though. New Super Mario Bros. 2 drops from #2 to #3, then at #4 it’s London 2012: The Official …
Sony has released a list of the PSone Classic games that’ll be playable on PS Vita following today’s v1.80 firmware update. You can view it on the PlayStation Blog here. It’s an impressive list. There are plenty of classics – including Crash Bandicoot, WipEout, Abe’s Exoddus, Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil 2 – and also …
If you purchased a Nintendo DS at launch then Zookeeper should be a game that’s familiar to you. It launched alongside the handheld in all three territories and, Super Mario 64 DS aside, it was one of the few games launch games worth buying. Ping Pals, The Urbz and Sprung: The Dating Game weren’t quite …
That image – beautiful, but also crushingly sad – was the last offering from @wipEout2048 on Wednesday, following the news that Sony are closing SCE Studio Liverpool – or Psygnosis, if you prefer. Which I do. Look back at the original PlayStation launch titles. No, really, look: Ridge Racer Battle Arena Toshinden Jumping Flash! Rapid …
Last week saw two big names releases despite it being the typically quiet summer period. So that’s our lot now, right? Nope – there are another two big releases out this week too. What on Earth is going on? Darksiders II was released on Tuesday to tie-in with the US release, although we did see …
Yet another war game? Perhaps on first inspection. Once the joypad is firmly in your hand though, it doesn’t take much more than a few minutes to realise that Spec Ops does a lot of things differently from other shooters. Different in a good way, of course. It’s a third-person shooter and just like Gears …
For the obvious reason, the price of Spider-Man games has shot up in the past month or so. Even the rushed out Spider-Man 3 movie tie-in – in which some female NPCs had male voices and vice versa – is selling for more than a tenner on Amazon. What’s really quite astonishing though is that …
The philosophy of a video game corporation nowadays is that if a game doesn’t prove to be popular, then all support and everything to do with it should be dropped like a hot potato, and attention focused elsewhere. This sort of thinking only started around ten years ago, when budgets for video games began to …
Take note publishers who aren’t either Nintendo or Square-Enix – gamers are quite happy to go out and buy new releases during the summer. Both Sleeping Dogs and New Super Mario Bros. 2 have performed well, taking the top and second spots of the UK chart respectively. Sleeping Dogs is in fact the sixth best …
All week I’ve been confronted by frightening, freakish visions on every street corner. That’s right, I’ve been in Edinburgh for the Fringe. Boom! (And, more relevantly, also playing a bit of augmented reality iPhone thing Ghostbusters Paranormal Blast.) It’s a neat set up: a Google Map of your immediate neighbourhood displays calls for you to …