When footage of Oddworld New ‘N’ Tasty was shown during the special E3 Nintendo Direct it caused a bit of a stir on the social networking sites. It’s easy to understand why – a lot of people have fond memories of the playing the Oddworld games, with Abe said to be very popular with female …
I bloody love a match-three puzzler, and the tile-swapping variety is that rarest of things: a game mechanic born on a controller that actually benefits from a touch screen. Certainly that’s one reason there are so many on iOS. And very nice they are too. Increasingly though games are playing with the formula – games …
You may recall we were concerned about Activision’s Deadpool game after hearing that it’ll be less-than-full-price and that developer High Moon was being downsized upon the game’s competition. Were we right to be concerned? Perhaps. It’s a short game with little replay value, which we assume is why Activision dropped the price to around the …
Released in 1995, Tails Adventure was one of the final big name releases for the Game Gear. With the Saturn and PlayStation on the horizon, and Pokémon causing a stir on Game Boy, most people had already considered Sega’s battery draining beast to be way past its prime. We think it’s fair to say that …
Usually retail compilations of PSN or XBLA titles are very bare-boned affairs. A few don’t even have a main menu in place, instead simply plonking their contents into your game library. When thatgamecompany is involved with something though, nothing is ever ‘usual’. Retailing at £15 – give or take a quid or two – Journey …
Who’s a good boy? Naughty Dog are good boys – The Last of Us sits at the top of the UK top 40 for a second week running. The delightful Animal Crossing: New Leaf remains at #2 for a second week also. FIFA 13 and Tomb Raider are at #3 and #4 respectively, with FIFA …
The thing that pleases us the most about New Leaf is that it’s on a handheld. Untold hours were wasted playing Animal Crossing on GameCube, and Let’s Go To The City on Wii was all well and good, but it’s 2005’s Wild World on the DS that we have the fondest memories of. For a …
Three. That’s how many of this week’s new releases are based around bikes, and each is different in their own little way. MotoGP 13 may seem like an acquired taste, but Eurogamer’s review makes it sound like a taste worth acquiring. They handed out a resounding 8/10 yesterday, claiming to to be a “lean, scrappy …
If we were asked to name three things Insomniac has brought to the world of videogames our reply would be something like this – purple talking dragons, wise-cracking robot sidekicks and over the top weaponry. Fuse features just one of these things, and you can probably guess which. If Fuse’s servers aren’t ghost towns in …
Earlier today we reviewed Shelter, a mobile game that puts a twist on the survival genre by blending turn-based card battles with tower defence elements. Industry veteran Chris Roberts was kind enough share some words regarding the game’s development, and also the future of the series. Shelter was made entirely by yourself. Did development go …
As long as developers are willing to explore beyond the boundaries of the usual third and first person shooters, we can live with the fact that zombie games aren’t going anywhere any time soon. just as much about defending and planning as it is about attacking Luck would have it, then, that Survivalist Games are …
Backed by a string of 10/10 review scores, The Last of Us has unsurprisingly become the new UK number one. The last time Sony took the top spot was with Uncharted: Golden Abyss over a year ago. Moreover, it’s the third fastest selling game of the year so far and also takes the accolade for …
Of the 11 games mentioned in Namco-Bandai’s press release, three of them star Pac-Man. That’s a resounding 36%, unless our calculator is borked. Let’s take a look at what the yellow fellow is getting up to. We enjoyed the Pac-Man World games, so we’re rather intrigued by 3D platformer Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. We …
We didn’t have to scratch ours heads for long to figure out why screenshots of Atlus’ movie tie-in R.I.P.D bare a sense of familiarly – it would appear to be a reworked version of the recent XBLA/PSN title God Mode. That’s not entirely a bad thing – the arena-based third-person shooter had a lot going …
Activision’s take of the TV show sensation includes a cheeky nod to Skyrim – an achievement called ‘I used to be human like you’ which is gained by shooting a walker in the knee with an arrow. Why are we telling you this right at the start of our review? Because it’s the only thing …