Jake My, wasn’t Matt confident that Sonic and the Secret Rings would make the top ten? He was bloody right as well: it’s the second highest entry, at a perfectly respectable #5. Meanwhile some Sims thing at #3 is the highest, leaving Crackdown and Final Fantasy XII at #2 and #1 respectively. Ghost Rider – which …
It used to be a gentle pleasure to watch non-gaming idiots play racing games, leaning from side to side and rotating the controller as if it’s going to do anything. But now gaming has caught up with human intuition. This is Excite Truck, and it’s bloody wonderful. In fact, it’s the best thing on the …
Becoming the fastest selling game in the series, and taking more than half of the week’s full price PlayStation 2 software sales, Final Fantasy XII inevitably tops the chart. Crackdown is #2 though, and the fourth fastest selling Xbox 360 title to date. There might be budget PC toss on GDL’s Grabbit label swarming over …
It’s not often that I’m impressed by the standard of game-related interviews, but GameDaily BIZ did an excellent job of making Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan flap about on the floor, attempting to convince anyone that the GameCube might still be worth buying. It’s all in this quote: “Are we producing any more GameCubes? No. But do …
A few years ago, the US Patent and Trademark Office website was a great place to uncover games before they were announced. But companies have pretty much stopped trademarking titles before announcing them, to stop us from having fun searching the database. But fuck the man, we can still have fun with the USPTO. We …
Little Britain is not #1. That’s the good news. It is #5 though. Meanwhile FIFA is back up to the top of the chart, with Need for Speed and Pro Evo not far behind. Last week’s #1, Battlestations: Midway, is down to a slightly rubbish #7. The highest new entry is some PC thing called …
Wednesday saw the launch of the Wii Everybody Votes Channel. You should be able to work out what it does from the name, but for the hard of thinking, it lets every Wii user vote in a number of simple surveys, both nationally and worldwide. Already it has had a more profound affect on the …
It’s hard not to enjoy watching the PlayStation 3 story develop, and there’s been plenty happening this week. Let’s play catch up. 1UP spoke to Phil Harrison. “We’re not going to slate our lineup,” he said. No, there’s no need to, everyone else is doing it for you. “We’ll continue to plow our own furrow,” …
If you’ve not noticed, it’s Valentines Day tomorrow. So games rental website Gametart – classy name – have conducted a survey which claims to make it official that women who play games have more sex. I’m not sure that I recall a more cynical, worthless survey. Which makes it hugely appropriate for Valentines Day. Inadvertently …
Battlestations: Midway is a new entry at #1 for Eidos, proving yet again that Xbox 360 owners really, really like war. And – cunts alive! – Little Britain is up to #2. Stop now, please. Really. You should be buying the excellent Okami, which enters at a shameful #17. Look: it’s both good and cheap. …
Crude, unimaginative, and frankly pathetic. And I’m not proud of that headline, either. Yes, I am literally as funny as Little Britain since the second TV series. The game – which I’m assuming is beyond poor, but if someone wants to prove me wrong then go ahead – is new at #14. It’s not the …
Generally, I ignore news about anything with ‘Tom Clancy’ in the title. But on Tuesday I was wrong to, because the trailer for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is actually worth downloading. No, the game doesn’t look to be a radical departure or anything like that, but the soundtrack to the trailer is …
Xbox Live Arcade and Wii’s Virtual Console both offer downloadable retro titles. But which is the best way to relive a misspent youth, in the process misspending your not so youth? I tried to find out without going to too much effort. It was Super Probotector’s Virtual Console release which got me here. I have …
Yer actual Ubisoft have signed up as European publishers of the Top Trumps games previously announced by Ironstone Partners. This remains essentially good news, especially as PlayStation 2, PC and – most importantly – Nintendo DS versions have been mentioned for release in the next couple of months. Top Trumps over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection …
Among the next batch of titles to grace Xbox Live Arcade, revealed by Microsoft today, is Worms. This is a good idea. Look at it. It looks like Worms. There are no forts, no bubbles at the top of the screen to burst, and it’s 2D. Admittedly, I’d have quite liked a straight conversion of …