Jake I was over a year late to the Art of Balance party, and for that I blame only Nintendo. Had they given the green light to WiiWare demos earlier – as they clearly and obviously should have – then I would have played the demo earlier, and realised how ridiculously brilliant it is earlier. The …
I only recently realised that Gameplay is a part of Game Group, as well as Gamestation. And Game, obviously. I’d ordered a few games from a few places, and they had the same Basingstoke return address. “Aha!” I thought. “How mildly notable.” So what is this mysterious distribution centre for the whole of the Game …
Shenanigans! I declare SHENANIGANS! A couple of weeks ago, our new release round-up carried the headline Portal Kombat – because Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat were released. Very clever, you’ll agree. Today, Chart-Track have used the same headline for this week’s chart news. Blatant thievery! Either that, or it’s quite an obvious play on words …
There have been some really good science documentaries recently: Wonders of the Universe, with physics megastar (pun intended) Prof Brian Cox; TV’s Ben Miller getting to grips with temperature on Horizon; and BBC Four’s Everything and Nothing. Properly entertaining, and properly mind-bending. It’s fun to stimulate your brain’s big number region. Like this: there are …
It seems like the gaming world has got over its desperation to be represented on mainstream television. With Wii Network Live or whatever, YouTube, and video content from websites far more professional than this one, the need has perhaps diminished somewhat. Good for Channel 4, then, for sneaking out a series about the annual Dare …
Our trip around the world of gaming via the medium of Google Street View continues. In the Nintendo years, Rare was a notoriously secretive company – which made the developer all the more fascinating to its fervent fans. Under the ownership of Microsoft, that mystique has faded somewhat – blame the games, blame the fans, …
We’re celebrating ten years of Games Asylum all month, but today is our actual birthday. Since YOU haven’t thrown us a SURPRISE PARTY, we have no choice but to present ten fun facts about Games Asylum. Enjoy. We’ll be in the corner singing Happy Birthday to ourselves. Games Asylum is ten years old, but its …
I’ve been looking back through the 200-plus reviews I’ve written over the last decade. It was definitely a couple of years before I remotely found my feet, but after that it’s not all bad. In an act of almost unconscionable self-indulgence, I present ten intros which I think bare repeating – an awkward mix of …
Ten years is a long time. But has much actually changed since Games Asylum was born into this world? Yes. And no. I’ve dredged the archives to illustrate. 1. Walls no barrier “Another technical marvel contained within is the RF module. With this you can play against up to three other players within a ten …
As part of 10 Years of Games Asylum, the site’s fine writers are each choosing one game to represent the last decade. Jake is up first. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was responsible for an unreasonable amount of unrestrained emotion flowing from my brain, through my fingers and keyboard, and onto the web. …
March 2011 sees Games Asylum turn ten years old. If you want to be precise, we launched on 26th March 2001. Surprised that we’ve been around for a decade? So are we. To celebrate ten glorious / anonymous / ignominious years (delete as appropriate), we have a month of hugely self-indulgent features planned. We’ll choose …
It’s a good first week for Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, but not quite as good as we expected: it debuts at #2. That’s a bit better than Marvel vs Capcom 2, which entered the chart at #183 back in 2002. That’s not an exaggeration: it’s a Chart-Track fact, friends. “Enough trivia, …
I wanted S4E1 – that’s what I reckon all the cool kids are calling it – to be excellent. I think I only read one review when it was released last year, and took that as confirmation that it is indeed excellent. Having finally got round to downloading it, I’m not entirely disappointed. It starts …
Everyone loves a good poke around on Google Street View. So, in an idea I’ve shamelessly plagiarised from myself, we’re going to take an irregular jaunt around the world of games via that very medium. Where better to start than the scenic M4 motorway heading out of London? That’s where, as well as a number …
This week’s shenanigans from retail group The Hut – shoving up listings for the Nintendo 3DS priced at £300 (now changed to pre-order pages) – got me thinking. The 3DS is set to be Nintendo’s most expensive piece of hardware since the Nintendo 64, 14 long years ago. The UK price has yet to be …