Just like last week, this week had us checking our calendar to make sure it really is only February. Catherine, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and The Darkness II are the big new releases and all are worthy of your time and money. Catherine is one of niche appeal though – it’s an interactive anime with …
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 64 of EMAP’s Nintendo Official Magazine from January 1998. The history of the Official Nintendo magazine license has a curious history …
The recent announcement of Platinum Games’ involvement with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance just goes to show how unpredictable the world of video games can be at times. If only it were a little more unpredictable then maybe would we end up with one or more of the games below, fabricated from our very own imaginations. …
Last week’s trio of big name releases has given the UK top 40 the shake up it so desperately needed. It’s Final Fantasy XIII-2 that ends FIFA 12’s dominance at the top of the chart, which is followed by Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection at #2. Soul Calibur V enters in at a rather apt …
Talk about a long time coming. If there was one arcade game that Mega Drive and SNES owners wanted to see on their systems back in the ‘90s then surely this was it. Due to Acclaim having the console rights, Konami was only allowed to release it on computers back in the day, and so …
Social gaming behemoth Zynga has been in the news a bit recently. You might have noticed. One particular highlight was Edge tearing apart Zynga’s assertion that it’s forthcoming game Dream Heights is the continuation of a long line of tower-based games, rather than a clone of Tiny Tower. Most entertaining. But what about the figurative …
After the quiet month of January, which would have been a new release write-off if it wasn’t for Resident Evil: Revelations, February has so many notable releases that it’s like October all over again. Say thank you to the nice Japanese men for Final Fantasy XIII-2, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and Soul Calibur V …
There was a time, back in 1998, when mobile phones didn’t have cameras. Standalone digital cameras were still far from being affordable; the common man was far more likely to covet a then swanky APS camera. Can you imagine that, children? Taking photos on film? The massive ’90s idiots, with their B*Witched and dial-up internet. …
Early in the Xbox 360’s life there were plenty of 400 Microsoft Point games regularly arriving on Xbox Live Arcade. As development budgets get bigger and downloadable games get more ambitious, we’re starting to see fewer and fewer. That’s not to say that Denki Software’s Quarrel isn’t ambitious, however. Simply trying to strike up a …
We recently took a look at Choatic: Shadow Warriors – an Xbox 360 card-based RPG released only in the US, but import friendly due to being region-free. Feedback about the article was positive so this month we’re going to look at another region-free Xbox 360 game not released in Europe – Sega’s Cyber Troopers Virtual-On …
Last week Resident Evil: Revelations made the news as eagle-eyed gamers spotted a host of ‘typos’ not only on the box but also during the cut-scenes. This week it’s making news again – it’s at #6 in this week’s UK chart, making it the first new release of 2012 to make the top 10. FIFA …
Though it was released quite a few months ago, Temple Run is the game dominating the App Store today – yes it’s free, but it’s also high up in the Top Grossing chart, thanks to the sheer volume of downloads and in-app purchases. Tiny Tower developers NimbleBit rightly had a pop at Zynga this week, …
Normally we’d be deeply sceptical of a new handheld, whatever niche it’s targeting. And it’s always ambitious – shall we say – of companies to invoke comparisons to Apple. But we like a bit of retro round these parts, so the idea of a retro handheld with an “iTunes style” download service is certainly intriguing. …
Ubisoft has chosen the Game Boy Color version of Prince of Persia as their first 3DS Virtual Console title. Our money would have been on the little known Game Boy Color version of Rayman being their first release, so if you ever see us outside Ladbrokes and fancy a flutter then it’s probably not a …
We have Capcom to thank for January’s biggest new release – Resident Evil: Revelations on 3DS. It’s also the only new game out this week. Good timing there, Capcom. Reviews have been mixed – EDGE gave it 6/10 (“the levels are a mishmash of beauty and blandness”) while Nintendo Gamer magazine dished out 90% and …