Jake It’s tough to decide between MotoGP and the Superbike World Championship. Best motorsport series in the world? It’s close between them. Most entertaining rider? Rossi and Haga both have their charms. Best commentators? Jack Burnicle and James Whitham are excellent, but Randy Mamola – with Toby Moody and Julian Ryder on Eurosport – probably pushes …
Metroid Prime Pinball for Nintendo DS? Armored Core 4 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360? No, there’s nothing new this week for me to even pretend to be enthusiastic about – though Metroid Prime Pinball has been received well. There’s FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage for 360, but it’s always been a slightly disappointing series given its …
News of a Sonic RPG – currently untitled – for Nintendo DS should send a cold shiver down your spine. Sonic is fast, and that’s about his only notable characteristic. So suited to an RPG he is not. There’s a but. But! There is was. BioWare – who we knew from an announcement back in …
The third quarter of this year will see literally some games released for the Wii and Nintendo DS. And by my reckoning, about one of interest for each format. Those are Super Paper Mario for Wii, on 14th September, and Freshly Picked – Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland for Nintendo DS, on the same day. Honestly, I …
Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors are coming together in the form of Warriors Orochi. This is, say Koei, “an unforgettable crossover event.” The question is: will anyone notice the difference? Has anyone ever found any real differences between the two series? I guess there must be differences that I’m too stupid to pick up on, …
Texans MumboJumbo are working on a game based on The Office. But the US version of the series, so it won’t feature Ricky Gervais doing that dance that no-one’s sick and tired of seeing. In much the same way as no-one’s sick and tired of being hit around the head with a rotting corpse. It’ll …
EA Playground is another collection of mini-games for the Wii (and Nintendo DS), but this time based on playground games. You’d already guessed that, hadn’t you? Games mentioned so far include tetherball (swing the Wii remote), spitballs (blow into the DS mic) and dodgeball. It’s all sounding a bit American, but being developed at EA …
There are certain shocking gaps in my gaming CV, and the Katamari games make up one of those holes o’ shame. The 3D Grand Theft Autos – there’s another. I own them – indeed I can see them right now – but sheer bone idleness has got in the way. This is going somewhere, if …
Forza Motorsport 2’s still at #1, and it’s still followed by Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. It’s all down to Colin McRae: DiRT, new at #4, to invigorate the chart. Codemasters might be a bit disappointed with that, but it’s only out on Xbox 360 and PC, and with …
I’ve only just come to properly appreciate the Wii’s Mii builder. Everyone loves making their own Mii: it’s sufficiently flexible, but streamlined enough to keep even the most impatient idiot interested. I’d love to know how much time was spent tweaking the available options to reach that near-perfect balance. In fact, some Nintendo bod has …
Summer means slow release season, and with a big Xbox 360 release it can only mean one thing: this week it’s all about Forza Motorsport 2. For the record, it’s the third fastest selling 360 game (behind Gears of War and PES6) and the fourth fastest selling overall this year. And yes, it’s this week’s …
There’s nothing games websites like more than telling us things that aren’t going to happen, be it to debunk a rumour on a rival site, or apropos of nothing. They just love it! This, then, is the week in not news. » Eurogamer’s had an exceptional week of not news. We had the new Wolfenstein …
“How many times have you been at a dinner party when some egghead keeps ranting about his IQ and SAT scores?” The answer, of course, is never. That doesn’t stop Midway from solving the non-existant problem though. “Well now, instead of punching him in the head, take the high road and challenge him to a …
» A new version of the PlayStation 3 firmware has been released, and do you know what? It’s quite good. Why? Because it enables upscaling of DVDs, PlayStation 2 and PSone games to HD resolutions. And that’s a sensible idea. » If you own a copy of Pokémon Ranger, then be sure to visit a …
Publisher of little note Crave Entertainment have announced a Napoleon Dynamite tie-in for Nintendo DS and PSP. Why? I have no idea. What? There are no details, and frankly I can’t begin to imagine what they’re going to produce. “It’s one of those films that has great memorable lines and characters, and we expect that …