Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare remains top of the UK chart for a second week running, fending off six of this winter’s biggest releases. Assassin’s Creed: Unity is the highest placing new arrival at #2. Chart-Track informs that sales were spilt 52% on PS4, 46% on Xbox One and 2% on PC. Although it misses …
No thanks to a broken US street date, word of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric’s foulness started to spread far quicker than SEGA probably anticipated. Indeed, YouTube footage generated quite a buzz earlier this week, showing off all sorts of glitches and bugs. Not only this, but players have also discovered a jumping technique that …
WayForward’s take on the Turtles franchise surprised us for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it isn’t a wscrolling brawler – the genre that pretty much every TMNT game in the past has favoured. Instead it takes the form of side-scrolling ‘Metroidvania’ adventure that has obviously been designed with speedruns in mind. Secondly, it’s surprisingly good. …
Ubisoft releasing two Assassin’s Creed games on the same day sounds like the start of a bad joke. There’s no punchline here though – this Friday it’s really happening. Won’t somebody think of the easily confused parents? Assassin’s Creed Unity and Assassin’s Creed Rogue launched in the US on Tuesday, a few days ahead of …
Top up your eShop accounts – it’s another busy week for new arrivals on Nintendo’s download services. We’re also going to use this opportunity to remind Wii U owners to check their Nintendo Network Premium Account – the 31st December deadline for earning points is quickly looming. On Wii U this week there’s a curiously …
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is, unsurprisingly, the UK’s new number one. It had a better first week than Call of Duty: Ghosts, but still has to settle for becoming the 5th biggest launch in the series. We should bear in mind here though that Advanced Warfare launched on a Monday, giving it an extra …
The suffering of sheep continues in this fourth instalment of Activision’s money making franchise. In fact, the first creature you’re shown how to trap – using the new portal and a ‘Traptanium’ crystal – is of the woolly variety. This monumental mammal is far from innocent however. Going by the name of Sheep Creep, they’re …
Very few publishers are willing to go up against the juggernaut that is Call of Duty, and as such this week’s new release line-up is filled with a bunch of odds and sods. If you’ll excuse that expression. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is in fact the only game out this week on PS4 and …
When Insomniac began pitching Sunset Overdrive to publishers they took along a bag containing various comic books, DVDs, toys, masks and other bits and pieces to help illustrate the kind of vibe they wanted it to have. Noticing some heavy rock ‘n’ roll influences inside their bag of goodies, publishers feared that the studio wanted …
Football Up Online, The Swapper, a bunch of premium-priced downloads and two Mega Man Virtual Console re-releases – that’s what you’ll find on the UK Nintendo eShop this week. Curve Digital’s puzzle platformer hybrid The Swapper performed very well on PlayStation, with the PS Vita version in particular gaining a lofty 86% Metacritic. “The Swapper …
If you’ve noticed that the buzz surrounding Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is somewhat less than previous entries then you’re not alone. Perhaps Activision has finally realised that people will go out and buy in droves regardless of heavy advertising campaigns? Reviews would suggest this year’s iteration is worthy of the minimal buzz it has …
Eight new titles managed to enter this week’s UK top 40. None could topple FIFA 15 however, which remains on top for a sixth consecutive week. With the new Call of Duty now available though it’s doubtful it’ll make it for a seventh. Microsoft’s hyperactive shooter Sunset Overdrive arrived at #2 and is followed by …
Auto-saving has made gaming considerably easier over the years. No longer do we have to remember to save progress every few minutes; if we die we simply go back to near where we left off, making the consequences of failure minimal at the most. That’s not the case in Alien: Isolation. This deep space survival …
There’s yet another strong showing of new titles out this Friday. Some acquired tastes are required for this assortment though. Xbox One-exclusive Sunset Overdrive blends elements from Jet Set Radio, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Dead Rising to form a vividly colourful shooter. We were worried about the thrills it provides being short-lived, but critics …
Thinking of trading-in Titanfall towards one of the big name new releases? Hold your fire – Update 8 has just dropped. Instead of simply adding a few more Titan insignias and whatnot, it includes a very good reason to dust off your copy – a highly substantial four player co-op mode. Frontier Defense sees yourself …