Due to a certain game being released tomorrow, it’s looking like Halo 4 will only get one week at #1. That week is this week – Halo 4 sits on top of the UK chart, proudly selling more copies than Assassin’s Creed III managed at launch. However, it hasn’t sold as well as either Halo …
800 Microsoft Points – or £7.99, if you prefer – may seem quite steep for a collection containing two crusty old Mega Drive games, but there is a reason of sorts behind this. Although Sega published the ToeJam & Earl games back in the early ‘90s, they don’t own the rights to the characters – …
So Peter Molyneux’s “social experiment” Curiosity – what’s inside the cube has been out for two days now, and at the time of writing more than 396,000 people have tapped away at the giant cube, destroying more than 163 million cubelets. The big question remains – what is inside the cube? We’d like to offer …
What are the scores on the doors for Halo 4? A curious mixture is the answer. The highest score we’ve seen is a lofty 9.8 from IGN, followed by 97% from GamesMaster magazine. At the opposite end of the scale sits EGM’s 7.0 review, who panned the shooter for being too similar to the previous …
We’ve spotted a worrying trend recently on a few less established websites – articles based ‘gaming’s sexist women’ and the like. We’ve decided to put a spin on our very own round-up though, so here’s our top six fittest birds… of the avian variety. Oh, it’s not what you were expecting? That’s a pity. 6. …
Halo 4 is out today. For those who have been living under an inanimate object for the past year or so, 343 Industries are at the helm of this new trilogy rather than Bungie, who have buggered off to do Activision’s bidding. Tracking down an address for 343 Industries wasn’t the easiest of tasks – …
The new issue of GamesMaster magazine – which comes with an Xbox 360 WWE avatar outfit, Wii U poster and Xbox/PS3 joypad “skins†this month – contains the first two Wii U game reviews. Hitman: Absolution is also reviewed on Xbox 360 this issue – another first review. Nintendo Land scored a jolly 86%. “An …
This week’s UK chart bears very good news for Ubisoft – Assassin’s Creed III has performed exceptionally well, arriving at #1. Not only has it sold more than double the number of copies that Assassin’s Creed II did at launch, but it has also beaten Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – the previous fastest selling game in …
Fix-It Felix Jr, the faux ‘80s arcade game from Disney’s CGI movie Wreck-It Ralph, is now available as a free download on the iTunes App Store. As Felix it is your job to repair the windows smashed by Wreck-It Ralph, while avoiding low flying ducks and the barrels that Ralph throws. The difficulty level ramps …
Punch Quest is free. And it’s brilliant. What more needs to be said? Let’s see. I quite often invoke Jetpack Joyride as a comparison for mobile games, and I’m going to have to again here: from your character bursting through the wall at the start, through the endless running and classy 16-bit graphics, to the …
Earlier this year it was announced that Criterion are now behind the steering wheel of the Need for Speed franchise. This more than likely means no more Burnout, but as NFS: Hot Pursuit proved Criterion are able to bring the best bits of Burnout to Need for Speed and make them better experiences for it. …
Released: 1998 Formats: Dreamcast, Arcade, PC, Wii Early Dreamcast release The House of the Dead 2 was praised for being arcade perfect, showing that the console could handle arcade conversions with total ease. Lest we forget, the original The House of the Dead never received a decent home version. The Sega Saturn iteration – handled …
Coincidentally, two articles elsewhere on this here internet today have invoked MS Paint in describing games – one a mobile game, the other console. So let’s see if we can’t learn something about the difference between console and mobile games. Christian Donlan described iOS beat ’em up Buddha Finger on Eurogamer at lunchtime thus: “The …
Released: 1993 Formats: Mega Drive, PSP (via EA Replay) EA gets a lot of criticism these days for knocking out games that aren’t exactly innovate. Our take is that this criticism isn’t entirely justified – Boom Blox remains one of our favourite Wii games, physics-based puzzler Create was vastly overlooked, and we’ve heard good things …
A sea of 5/10 reviews, leading to a current Metacritic of 51%, hasn’t put gamers off purchasing Medal of Honor: Warfighter. It’s the UK’s new number one, knocking EA’s own FIFA 13 to #2. Forza Horzion makes a pitstop at #3. Then we’ve got Skylanders Giants, Dishonored and Just Dance 4 at #4, #5 and …