If we were asked to name the movie series which has had the greatest influence over videogames as a whole, we wouldn’t hesitate to answer with the original Star Wars trilogy. Probe us a bit more and ask what film has had the greatest influence over the FPS genre, and that answer would be 1986’s …
Before Dead Space 3 launched last week EA seemed confident that it’s going to perform better than Dead Space 2, claiming that the demo has been downloaded over 2m times. Although it may do in the long run, it hasn’t broken Dead Space 2’s launch record with Chart Track claiming that sales are down 26.6%. …
Has there ever been a movie license more perfectly suited to a videogame adaptation than Aliens? The movie series has influenced countless games over the years, from its entire arsenal of sci-fi weaponry to the design of H.R. Giger’s Xenomorphs. Heck, a few games are even guilty of copying Aliens’ marine banter word for word. …
It’s ironic, really. Just as Microsoft announces that they’re ditching support for XNA, which pretty much puts another nail in the coffin for Xbox Live Indie Games, Canadian developer Firebase Industries goes and releases the ‘80s arcade management sim Arcadecraft. It’s a game that single-handedly demonstrates what Xbox Live Indie Games should be all about …
Last weekend news broke that the new issue of Game Informer magazine contains the first ever review of Dead Space 3, where it was awarded a 7.75. This turned out to be a massive filthy lie – they did in fact give it 9.75 and claimed it to be one of the best games of …
When Sega released Sonic the Hedgehog back in 1991, there’s no doubt that they knew they had a huge hit on their hands. Even though the ‘hog then arguably went on to to star in more bad games than good, the fan base has remained loyal and more than willing to spend vast sums on …
Some know him as that brown thing who’s on T-shirts in the dark corners of HMV that nobody visits. Others know him as Domo-kun, the official mascot of Japan’s NHK television station. We discovered this for ourselves first-hand when visiting NHK in Tokyo around five years ago. What were we doing there? Obviously not becoming …
Late last year when we weren’t looking, Microsoft added a free to download karaoke app onto Xbox Live dully titled Karaoke. If this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction to Sony making Singstar free on PSN, then we’d be very surprised. Still, it’s always nice to see something extra added to Xbox Live, and even more so …
Our faith in the gaming industry has been restored slightly today. Namco’s PlayStation 3-exclusive RPG Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is the new UK number one. Last week’s #1 was Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which drops to #3. FIFA 13 remains at #2. At #4 it’s Far Cry 3 and …
Time for another of our regular jaunts around the gaming world via the medium of Google Street View. Nothing topical or clever this month: let’s just go and have a gander at Sumo Digital. After all, it’s official: everyone likes Sumo Digital. With various Sonic Racing and OutRun titles to their name, you would, wouldn’t …