If you decided to give the Warface beta a miss then you made a wise choice. The servers were about as stable as a three-legged table, and even when they were up and running there were countless irritations to contend with. One particularly annoying quirk was that when attempting to host a match you’d often …
It’s a busy week for eShop offerings – two recommended Wii U downloads, two Virtual Console releases, two 3DS demos, three new 3DS games and three re-releases of older 3DS titles. Blimey. Ubisoft’s stylish 2D RPG adventure Child of Light (£11.99) has been getting strong reviews, including an 8/10 from Eurogamer: “Child of Light stands …
A dearth of new releases has resulted in a lack of activity in this week’s UK top 40. In fact, EA’s dominance in the top ten is about the only noteworthy occurrence. Titanfall is on top for a third week running, while 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil remains at #2. FIFA 14 is at #4, …
There aren’t many games around that allow you to re-live the innocence of being a child. Unless those games are games you previously played as a youngster, you’re hard pressed to find something that awakens the inner child, knocking at the door of long forgotten memories and emotions. However, there is a fine line between …
Tower-defence/RTS hybrid Defense Grid managed to gain a sizeable cult following when it was first released, and no doubt after being made available for free as part of Microsoft’s Games for Gold promotion it managed to find more fans. This week sees this release of Defense Technica, a game that we assumed is a sequel …
The current issue of Uncooked Media’s ONE Gamer magazine is to be the last. Fear not – the mag isn’t about to join the likes of Xbox World, PSM and NGamer in heaven’s paper recycling bin. It’s instead being transformed into a multi-format magazine known simply as GAMER, with the first issue launching 21st May. …
Those who believe Call of Duty is Activison’s most overworked franchise obviously aren’t aware of how often the publisher releases new Cabela hunting simulations. There are seventeen on Xbox 360 alone, three of which – we kid you not – were once released on the same day. That said, chances are the majority of gamers …
Usually Nintendo spaces their sequels years apart, but that’s not the case for NES Remix 2. The £8.99 download is due to arrive on the Wii U eShop this week, almost five month exactly after the original launched. With a stronger line-up of NES classics broken into bite-sized bits – including Super Mario Bros. 3, …
We wasn’t aware that the retail version of Trials Fusion includes the season pass – hence the inflated cost over the digital version – and so we didn’t expect it to chart highly this week. There must be plenty of gamers out there more switched on than we are, as Trials Fusion has entered at …
Codemasters remained loyal to the 8-bit cassette formats right up until the market was almost diminished entirely. They were so heavily devoted, in fact, that technology had way surpassed humble cassette tapes – they were even able to release a ‘greatest hits’ collection for the Spectrum and Commodore on CD, simply requiring an everyday CD …
For a game that’s resoundingly simple, Lines (or Lines – by That Wonderful Lemon Co. to give it its full name) is tricky to explain. It’s a ‘match-five’ puzzler in which rows of coloured dots make their way down a cylinder. They descend at an incredibly fast rate, and just a few precious seconds are …
Eurogamer was keen to mock the very existence of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, poking fun at its cumbersome name on a handful of occasions, before calling it “a very, very well made promotional souvenir†and “a game many of its audience will already ownâ€. It walked away with a solid 7/10. We whole heartedly …
Unsure what a Bitcoin is? Don’t even bother looking for the answer – you may as well just spend those thirty seconds cleaning dirt from under your finger nails. Trust us, that’s a far more beneficial thing to do with your time. All you need to know is that they’re the currency in this Xbox …
Impatiently waiting for Nintendo to finally reveal Legend of Zelda on Wii U? You should definitely consider reaching for Darksiders II to fill the Hyrulian-shaped void. Though rather than heading on a quest to save the princess or uncover the secret to a mysterious event; as Death, and his journey to free his brother War …
It appears voxels are in this season. California-based indie developers MyDream Interactive have recently finished their successfully funded Kickstarter campaign for MyDream, a co-operative world building game that takes inspiration from the likes of Minecraft and LittleBigPlanet. After surpassing their Kickstarter goal and receiving backing from high-profile figures such as Ultima Online creator Richard Garriott, …