Jake Capcom’s Lost Planet has found – ho ho – its way back to the top of the chart, pushing last week’s comfortable #1, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, down to #5. That leaves room for the the pair of big football games to fill the rest of the top three, with Wii Play up …
It’s funny how finding out the developer of a game can raise or lower my expectations. Take Crush, Sega’s new PSP puzzle game. It involves crushing a 3D world down into 2D to solve puzzles then ‘uncrushing’ it back to 3D. Sounds interesting. But Kuju Brighton are developing it. Now I’m fond of Kuju for …
Well it’s all about World of Warcraft this week, with The Burning Crusade – the first expansion pack – comfortably taking #1. It missed out on being the fastest selling PC game ever by less than a thousand units, so Championship Manager 04 keeps that title. World of Warcraft itself is back at #28 too. …
There may only have been two things said this week worth repeating, but it’s quality, not quantity, which counts. » I’m growing to like Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. He does love to comment on the games industry, and he doesn’t care if he’s wrong. A couple of weeks ago his thought that there wouldn’t …
It may be clear by now that I love a good pun. I love a bad pun, too. There are also certain people who would have you believe that I love pirates (the old fashioned nautical kind). But these people are liars. The point I’m managing to avoid is that, unbeknownst to me, the press …
For this week’s Saturday round up, I’d like to salute IGN UK writer Rob Burman, and his contribution to the art of headline writing. » Livingstone Singapores His Heart Out Ian Livingstone said something in Singapore, so what more could you ask for in a headline? Bonus marks for the word “opined” in the article …
“There are new and exciting games available and more and more family orientated and mentally stimulating titles to grasp and hold the interest of all ages.” That’s what ELSPA’s Paul Jackson said about the record breaking software sales of 2006. So where are those “new and exciting” games in the chart of the year? Nowhere. …
There’s nothing like an analyst’s report to pad out a site’s news coverage. It’s been a vintage week. » Gamespot have information from In-Stat that, since there are now more consoles and handhelds with online capabilities, there will be more and more people playing online on console and handhelds in the future. Excellent work, analysts. …
It’s Internet law for us to mention Boris Johnson’s Telegraph column decrying that computer games rot the brain. It’s all too easy to criticise the piece, but there are a couple of genuinely intriguing points. For one thing, Boris clearly thinks that he’s making an original, outrageous point – “it is time someone had the …
Okay, 2006 ended on a hugely cynical note, so let’s start 2007 with a dose of unrealistic and unjustified optimism. First, PlayStation 3. The launch line-up might be depressingly familiar, but imagine if something were to come along in 2007 that actually justifies the £400 plus price tag. Just imagine how good that game would …
Do you remember 2006? “Of course I do.” Ah, but do you? Do you really? Science has determined that there is only one way to find out: by taking our needlessly cynical end of year quiz. Microsoft charmingly ignored the original Xbox entirely in 2006. This left the Xbox 360 with: A lot to answer …
It’s 2007 New Year Honours time, and there’s a new member of the games industry OBE gang, which currently counts among its members Argonaut founder Jez San (2002), Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux (2005) and former important man at Eidos Ian Livingstone (2006). It’s SW19’s Ms Jane Cavanagh, SCi founder and effectively the woman who put an …
As executives try to find ways to make programmes for ever less money, ‘user-generated content’ is slowly turning television into the Internet but without the less rubbish bits. MTV Flux is leading this erosion of the already dubious quality of digital TV. And they’ve only gone and done a games programme. Up Up Down Down …
Though EA still have the top two positions to themselves – albeit with Need for Speed Carbon moving back above FIFA 07 – and they’ve now spent more than half of the year at the top of chart, there is some positivity to be found. In the land of Wii, Zelda’s back up a place …