Jake PlayStation Eye is the next-generation equivalent of the EyeToy, but it’s not a toy. Oh no, it has “sophistication”, and comes with editing software EyeCreate rather than anything fun. Sony: taking the ‘play’ out of PlayStation, one step at a time. The built in microphone sounds a bit interesting though. It can track voice location, …
…is another Tom Clancy franchise. So good news! Ubisoft have announced Tom Clancy’s EndWar. The question which leaps to the mind of any sane individual is this: how is it any different to Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six? Actually, I’d argue that Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six are too similar as it is, …
Serious driving games on Nintendo formats always seem a bit wrong to me, and even more so on Nintendo handhelds. So you’ll excuse me if I’m not a shining light of enthusiasm about Race Driver: Create & Race for the Nintendo DS. I’m as big a fan of Codemasters’s Race Driver series as you’ll find, …
The weak puns are rolling in today, oh yes. TMNT jumps a place to this week’s #1, just ahead of the once invincible Pokemon at #2, in the form of Pokemon Ranger for the DS. You’ll have to accept my apologies, because I can’t be doing with finding the accent for the ‘e’ in Pokemon …
So, Capcom have nabbed the PlayStation format MotoGP rights from Namco. Good. For a long while, Climax and THQ have had it far too easy. Their Xbox MotoGP games have been of a uniformally high standard, but they’ve also not changed much over the years. So a bit of serious competition for the biking crown …
Can I be the only one who gets bored really quickly with ‘adventure’ games, for want of a better term? I imported Hotel Dusk: Room 215 – yeah, get me importing, it’s only out in the UK this week – months ago, and after a few sessions I found myself wandering around failing to do …
David Gibbon. That name strikes fear into the hearts of a certain tiny, former-Digitiser-reading section of society. He was responsible for Ceefax’s games coverage for a period, and became known for his… unique style of reporting. He’s now found on largely respectable site Digital Spy, and has kept up the standard. Digital Spy don’t cover …
165,000 is certainly more PlayStation 3s than I expected to be sold in the UK this past weekend. It’s remains too expensive given the lack of essential titles, but I have to hand it to Sony, it has sold well. Indeed, it’s the UK’s fastest selling home console ever (EVER!), ahead of the Wii’s 105,000, …
It’s depressing how effective marketing is on me at the best of times, but when it still has influence after fifteen years, there has to be something wrong. That’s right, I only bought Kid Icarus from the Wii Shopping Channel because it appeared in Captain N: The Game Master, the probably rubbish Nintendo-based cartoon of …
Sony are already applying liberal pre-emptive spin to the impending UK PlayStation 3 launch, saying that not selling out on pre-orders will mean they got it right. Nevertheless, come Monday they’ll surely want some snappy factlet for journalists to hang their stories on. Obviously the best one would be record-breaking launch weekend sales, but if …
If you’d bought 200 copies of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 last week, it would be #1 this week, and not Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. I am of course making the assumption that you didn’t buy 200 copies of that game last week. I hope you didn’t. It would have been a silly …
It sounds like a good idea for Comic Relief to make Red Noses (and t-shirts) available to buy in online world Second Life. But what I’d really like to know, after the event, is how many they’ve sold. Because I genuinely can’t even take a guess, mainly because I don’t have anything to compare it …
Tom Clancy and Xbox 360 is becoming an unbeatable combination, so yes, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 is #1 this week. Final Fantasy XII is down to #2, and at #3 it’s the return of Vice City Stories, thanks to the cheap PlayStation 2 release. Impressively, Sonic and the Secret Rings on Wii rises a …
If the term Web 2.0 isn’t enough to make you want to shove your fist in a blender, then beat yourself around the head with the blender just to make sure, then try Sony’s new favourite phrase, introduced at GDC: Game 3.0. They just want to be hated, don’t they? It’s about user-generated content and …
The Game Developers Conference started today in San Francisco. As far as I can gather, the exciting news so far is a 512MB Memory Unit for Xbox 360, an increase to 150MB for the size limit on Xbox Live Arcade games, and vague details of Nokia’s N-Gage plans. There’s a whole week of this. Let’s …