Back in the ‘90s, Bullfrog was one of the biggest names in PC gaming. Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Magic Carpet, Syndicate and Populous became instant classics overnight, but it was Dungeon Keeper that turned the fantasy genre upside, making the player the bad guy instead of the hero. The game’s tag line “It’s Good to …
It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while, a stinker of a game comes out which makes you consider whether there was a joke involved somewhere. Unfortunately, Airport Simulator is one of those stinkers. Developed by Actalogic and published by UIG Entertaintment, both companies have their roots firmly planted in simulation games, and …
Once destined to fill gamer’s Christmas stockings, Fable Anniversary is finally with us this week. Having read a few reviews though, we aren’t entirely sure if that extra development time was as well spent as it could have been. Eurogamer and GamesRadar – amongst others – speak of weird bugs and glitches, stuttering frame-rates, texture …
Originally intended to help Microsoft get Windows Phones and Surface tablets out of their warehouses and into gamer’s hands, twin-stick shooter Halo: Spartan Assault makes its final pit stop on Xbox 360 after launching on Xbox One last month. Usually we disapprove of mobile games being converted to console, but considering it has been a …
You know it’s a quiet week for new Nintendo downloads when a farming simulator takes the limelight. At least My Farm on Wii U looks far jollier than the recent – and also rubbish – console iteration of Farming Simulator 2013, sporting a colourful European visual style and a more comical vibe. The £7.19 download …
We never doubted that Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition would enter the UK top ten, but the fact it has taken the top spot has surprised us slightly. It is a relatively simple conversion of a year old game, after all. 69 per cent of sales were on PlayStation 4, with the remaining 31 per cent …
As most Americans will know, today is Super Bowl Sunday, a day when millions of Americans sit around a giant bowl of cereal and watch American Football on TV – or Hand Egg USA as they call it over there. Each year over the last decade EA has run a simulation with the latest Madden …
We were aiming to bring you a review of the newly released Xbox 360 version of Halo: Spartan Assault today, but that plan fell through on the grounds that it rarely goes ten minutes without crashing. That’s no exaggeration – we’ve just gone over the halfway mark and had to reboot our humble Xbox 360 …
It was only a few weeks ago that Crystal Dynamics revealed Tomb Raider did eventually go on to make profit, contradicting everything Square-Enix said about it not selling as well as forecast. Then again, they did have some frankly absurd expectations – it sold 3.4 million in its first month, when Square expected a ridiculous …
Regular readers will know that we’ve always had a soft spot for retro collection, and so we’ve rounded up eight of the best. Inexpensive and often containing one or two games that would cost a small fortune if purchased for their original hardware, all of the below offer decent value for money as well as …
Just like last week, only two new arrivals are hitting the Nintendo eShops this week – one each for Wii U and 3DS. Wii Fit U will be available from 1st Feb for £29.99 while virtual pet thing Brilliant Hamsters! gnaws its way onto 3DS this Thursday for £9.99. There’s a video of the finger …
It would appear that Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z’s mediocre reviews haven’t harmed sales – the brawler has managed to enter the UK chart at a respectable #10. It’s at #7 in both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 charts, and #1 in the PS Vita chart. This just goes to show how popular …
It was Toy Fair 2014 at London’s Kensington Olympia this week. Video games didn’t exactly feature prominently, but Sonic was there. You can see him above, loitering in the background of a photo of event manager Simon Pilling. Sega weren’t exhibiting, so it’s hard to say exactly what Sonic was up to. Apart from loitering. …
Say hello to the first Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PS Vita retail release of the year – Dragon Ball Z – Battle of Z. Yeah, it has been a slow month. Whereas the majority of Dragon Ball Z games have taken the form of one-on-one brawlers in the past, this one offers online battle …
Released on PlayStation 2 back in 2005, SEGA Classics Collection is a small part of gaming history. Not so much in terms of the collection’s content, but rather a display of Sony’s seldom seen authority. Over in Japan the games in the eight-strong compilation were released individually as part of the SEGA Ages 2500 series. …