Unepic – hopefully selling itself short

Rather than cram Nintendo’s eShop offerings in with the rest of the week’s new releases – like we have been doing for quite some time – we’ve decided to give Nintendo’s download schedule a regular weekly overview. The main reason for this is that we felt as if we were skimming over a lot of …

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Everything changes but the chart

Similar to earlier this month, the majority of the UK’s top 10 remains the same as last week. That means FIFA 14 is still on top, followed by Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed IV. At #5 it’s LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and then at #6 – up two places – it’s …

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Eight cancelled 8-bit SEGA games

The Master System and Game Gear both lead a long life in Europe, peacefully co-existing alongside the Mega Drive for several years.  If we include the 32X, Mega CD, and Pico, SEGA did at one point circa 1995 have seven consoles on the market. And yes, that’s as crazy as it sounds. Something had to …

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Dr. Luigi offers a decent dose of nostalgia

There are not one but two titles featuring Nintendo’s plumbing duo out this week, but there’s no need to go rolling your eyes – they couldn’t be any more different from one another. Like NES Remix, the Wii U’s Dr. Luigi has seemingly been knocked up on a tight schedule to fill a void on …

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Belated Kinect mini-reviews

It’s questionable if the Kinect is going to play as big a part in the Xbox One’s future as Microsoft once believed. Indeed, by all accounts the original Kinect is dead – Microsoft even chose not to feature the usual ‘Better with Kinect’ branding on the recent Zoo Tycoon. That didn’t stop us from dusting …

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RoboCop – Review

Talk about an easy act to follow – the last RoboCop game was from the notorious Superman 64 developers Titus Interactive way back in 2003. The only thing you need to know about that game was that it was their last before going bankrupt. Even if this mobile movie tie-in was a clone of Space …

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Killzone: Shadow Fall retakes top ten

A slight shuffle has taken place in the UK chart this week, with the emphasis there on the word ‘slight’. FIFA 14 is still on top – which makes it seven weeks, although not consecutively – and is followed by Call of Duty: Ghosts while Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed IV switch places from last …

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eBay round-up: Pac-Man special

Following on from last week’s review of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures and this week’s lookback at Pac-Attack, it seems fit to focus this month’s eBay round-up on Pac-Man. Unsurprisingly, a Pac-Man arcade cabinet is the highest valued Pac-Man item to have sold on eBay recently. It’s not the original Pac-Man arcade game though, but …

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Starved for new releases

Christmas has only just been shoved back into the loft, and so unsurprisingly there are very few new games up for perusal this week. Maybe for those with impending credit card bills that’s not an entirely a bad thing. Randomly generated survival romp Don’t Starve on PS4 is the biggest release, available free to PlayStation …

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A double take on Double Helix

It has been a while since we last visited a developer via the magic of Google Street View, but Double Helix struck us as a decent contender. The California-based studio has been around since 2007, yet it was only when it was revealed that they were co-developing Killer Instinct that most gamers acknowledged their existence. …

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Pac-Attack – the forgotten Pac-Man puzzler

Namco’s iconic yellow fellow has starred in countless games over the years, so it’s no surprise that some have fallen into obscurity. Arguably, none of these are more deserving of a lookback than 1993’s Pac-Attack, a neat little puzzler with more than a whiff of Tetris about it. Although the puzzler appears to have been …

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UK chart – top seven unchanged

Quite how we’re supposed to write something interesting about this week’s UK chart is a mystery – the top seven remain unchanged from last week. This means FIFA 14 is on top for a sixth week, although not consecutively, and is followed by Call of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed IV, Battlefield 4 and GTA V. …

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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures – Import Review

Pac-Man’s ability to sprout limbs seemingly at will has always disturbed us. For every Pac-Man platformer that has been released over the years, there’s a Pac-Man game where the yellow fellow is forced to devolve and roll around inside mazes like a primitive beast. This CGI cartoon tie-in sees Pac-Man in his arguably most evolved …

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The games of January

The first month of the year is always a quiet one for new releases, but there is usually at least one big name game out. Last year we had DmC – a game which many seemingly forgot about when compiling their GOTY lists – and also the budget priced Anarchy Reigns. Only two games, yes, …

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