The Nintendo DS wasn’t the first handheld to feature a touch-screen. Back in 1996, Philips planned to release a touch-screen handheld aimed at girls called the In2It, also known as Kidcom during its pre-production. Despite extensive focus testing, which entailed groups of children providing sketches of their ideal handheld and – somewhat bizarrely – also …
While PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and even 3DS owners are enjoying their new fangled version of FIFA 13 with their numerous new features, those who have purchased versions for other systems have been left shaking their heads in dismay. The lack of effort put into FIFA 13 for Wii is frankly appalling. Nintendo Gamer ran …
If variety is the spice of life then Nintendo Land is a vindaloo with extra chillies. We’re not just talking about the variety of mini-games present but also the variety of controllers required. Aside from the touch-screen GamePad, some games require just a standard Wii remote while others need a Motion Plus-enabled Wii remote. Haven’t …
This year’s Eurogamer Expo kicked off today, hosting the widest range of games imaginable. If you can’t find something to grab your attention at the show then you’re beyond even our help. As you may expect it it’s the anticipated likes of Halo 4, ZombiU and Call of Duty: Black Ops II that are drawing …
Note to all: this is how to transfer a game to mobiles. Okay, so it’s not a conversion of Rayman Origins per se – but that’s the point. The wonderful UbiArt framework has been retained, but the controls stripped down to accommodate the touch screen. Which leaves a sticky condensed residue of the essence of …
Remember the days when FIFA games were more often than not rubbish? Thankfully those days are long gone. FIFA 13 is going to set tills ringing this week and all signs point to it deserving to. It walked away with a 9/10 from Eurogamer who found much to praise, including the weekly updated team and …
If there’s one thing we have learned from videogames over the years, it’s to always attack the red flashing spot. That, and the fact that it’s always the games with a steep learning curve that end up being the most rewarding. To say that Port Royale 3 is initially confusing is an understatement – the …
Most Kinect games tend to look and feel on the budget side as, well, they are budget games. Not this one though – rather than use the same engine as Fable III it has been built from the ground up for Kinect. Voice-acting impresses and it’s clear that a great deal of polish has been …
Borderlands 2 has become this year’s biggest release so far, outselling the previous best – Mass Effect 3 – by 4,000 copies. 71% of copies sold at launch were on Xbox 360, with 22% on PlayStation 3 and 7% on PC. 2K Games are in fact the only publisher to have two games in this …
Going by the product description for Happy Street alone it does sound like a blatant clone of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing. The idea behind it is identical, at least – to create a community for overwhelmingly cute animals to inhabit. They even talk in similar garbled tones. When playing it though it doesn’t take much more …
It was almost as if EA had totally given up on Harry Potter license towards the end – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One was close to being an absolute abomination. Thankfully for Harry Potter fans the license is back in the hands of Warner Bros. As we’ve mentioned before, Warner Bros. appears …
When Ubisoft first announced Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth we joked that it couldn’t be any worse than the publisher’s own Kinect title PowerUp Heroes. Fortunately for Marvel fans, it isn’t. It is clearly aimed at younger gamers though. If you’re expecting something like Activison’s Amazing Spider-Man tie-in that gamers of all ages can enjoy, …
Sleeping Dogs. Now that’s a name ripe for pun making. Had this free-roaming oriental adventure – which originally started out as a new True Crime game for Activision – turned out to be on the smelly side we could have rolled out such one-liners as “this dog should have been put to sleep†and “every …
I’m sure every gamer has dreamed about owning an arcade machine at some point. To the infuriation of girlfriends and significant others across the world, a little known website known as eBay exists. The really worrying thing is that some arcade machines don’t really cost a great deal – we’ve managed to find working machines …
You’d be forgiven for mistaking this as a Kairosoft game. It’s a very easy error to make as not only does Bookstore Dream share a similar visual style to Game Dev Story and the like, but at £1.80 the pricing isn’t far off from a Kairosoft game either. This is a small game in more …