There’s a slight retro theme running through this week’s new releases – a new Silent Hill along with the anticipated HD collection, a Ridge Racer revamp, this year’s Tiger Woods and a load of Capcom classics on one handy disk. The emphasis is obviously on the word ‘slight’ there. Silent Hill HD Collection angered fans …
We don’t know why journalists like to use the phrase “the rumour mill is spinning again†so much or even what a “rumour mill” is exactly, but we do know where rumours come from. Well, sort of. Let us start with perhaps the greatest rumour ever weaved – Nintendo’s “megaton†announcement. Back in 2002 Nintendo …
We’ve nothing against a series being made more casual – nobody likes frustrating difficulty levels, after all. However, in attempt to make Ninja Gaiden 3 appeal to a larger audience the developers have removed just about everything that made Tomonobu Itagaki’s previous Ninja Gaiden games so entertaining in the first place. The plot sees Ryu …
You may be thinking that this is a little bit of a pointless review. Although we won’t deny that it pretty much does what it says on the tin, to quote an advert that we hope people still remember, Nintendo’s 42 All Time Classics on DS was a game that we got a surprising amount …
There are four new entries in the top 40 this week but none of them have been able to tackle FIFA Street from the top spot. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City – Capcom’s first western-developed Resident Evil – leaps in at #2. That’s followed by Mass Effect 3, FIFA 12, SSX and Call of Duty: …
They say that there are five stages of grief. Well, in my experience, there are three stages of Angry Birds Space. 1. Anticipation Fuelled by the NASA association, endless tie-ins and ceaseless media attention, the impression that this is a Big Deal built and built. With it came an assumption that it must be a …
Supersonic’s much loved racer Mashed from 2004 is about to get a spiritual sequel on PSN and Xbox Live Arcade very soon. How soon? Wednesday, 28th March. WRECKED – Revenge Revisited sounds like a comprehensive package. There are 14 different weapons, including 5 types of air-strikes, co-op play both local and online for four players …
Capcom seemingly learnt nothing from the forgettable Resident Evil: Outbreak series on PlayStation 2 – Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has been getting some terrible reviews, including a 3/10 from gamesTM. GamesMaster also reviewed it this month but didn’t give it a score as they weren’t able to play it online. They did however point …
GamePro has been in the news recently. Sadly, it hasn’t been for the best of reasons – both the website and magazine were closed down in December. When visiting the GamePro.com now, those expecting gaming news and reviews are instead redirected to the PC World magazine website. The magazine had been struggling for a while …
Most gamers nowadays have a ‘pile of shame’ – a stack of games purchased at impulse prices, waiting to be played. Lately, rather than simply picking a game that I’m in the mood to play, I’ve had to put a little bit of thought into what titles to tackle first. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine had …
EA rules the roost this week – new entry FIFA Street is at #1, followed by Mass Effect 3, SSX and FIFA 12. Mario Party 9 remains at #5 while RAGE has leaped back up the chart, all the way from #20 to #7. Out of the all the titles in the top 5, four …
You may have noticed a few news stories floating around about Game Group lately. Just a few. Not stocking various big releases, share price plummeting, not stocking another big release, rumours of impending administration, not stocking some more big releases, not stocking another big release, potential buyers – and apparently they’re not stocking some big …
Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 is out this week which in a way is ironic – as we were compiling this new release round up we found it hard to identify what this week’s big game is. Not that there isn’t anything decent out – it’s just a funny week of odds and sods. Football …
Released: 1996 Formats: Game Gear, Master System (Brazil only) The Game Gear lived such a long life that the last few games for it were not based on Mega Drive titles but rather spin-offs of early Sega Saturn games such Panzer Dragoon Mini, Virtua Fighter Animation and Baku Baku. Sonic Blast was another late Game …
You know how some films are so bad that you can’t help yourself but to keep watching? MorphX is the videogame equivalent, riddled with plot holes, clichés, bad voice acting and poor dialogue. It’s a third person romp that 505 Games slipped out on the sly back in 2010, heralding all the way from an …