Jake Mobile games are released at such an unrelenting rate, that I don’t generally find pre-release coverage very helpful. If I can’t click through and buy it immediately, then there’s every chance I’ll have forgotten about it by the time it’s released. But it’s been a pretty lovely week for announcements. Rayman Jungle Run Everyone loves …
There’s every change that you’ve already been convinced by others of the merits of Thirty Flights of Loving. But if not, here are six good reasons to bloody well buy the thing: It’s interesting. More interactive short story than game, it requires no gaming skill to speak of, just that you be intrigued enough to …
That image – beautiful, but also crushingly sad – was the last offering from @wipEout2048 on Wednesday, following the news that Sony are closing SCE Studio Liverpool – or Psygnosis, if you prefer. Which I do. Look back at the original PlayStation launch titles. No, really, look: Ridge Racer Battle Arena Toshinden Jumping Flash! Rapid …
All week I’ve been confronted by frightening, freakish visions on every street corner. That’s right, I’ve been in Edinburgh for the Fringe. Boom! (And, more relevantly, also playing a bit of augmented reality iPhone thing Ghostbusters Paranormal Blast.) It’s a neat set up: a Google Map of your immediate neighbourhood displays calls for you to …
If video games were an Olympic sport – and let’s be clear, they aren’t – then button bashing would have to be the blue ribbon event. After all, it’s well established as the equivalent of sprinting 100m. Sadly, the noble sport of button bashing is dying. Nintendo dealt the first serious blow with Wii Sports, …
The freemium model is a bit of a curious fit for an official Olympics game. It doesn’t quite give the right message, does it? If you want to succeed, you need to build on your natural talent through plenty of good solid practice. Or just bung us a few pennies and we’ll sort you out. …
The last thing the world needs is another karting game. Admittedly the situation was even worse in the middle of the last decade, a low point marked by Crazy Frog Racer 2. Though Sebastian Vettel would presumably consider that the height of hilarity, if his post-race Crazy Frog impression at last year’s Spanish Grand Prix …
Tiny Wings was Apple’s 2011 game of the year in Europe, and deservedly so: it’s lovely. A delightful teaser trailer for Tiny Wings 2 surfaced last week, with a release date of 12th July 2012. Collective conclusions were leapt to, but we should have been looking more closely at developer Andreas Illiger’s Twitter stream: There …
Peter Molyneux said he’d learnt his lesson a couple of years ago. He even reiterated it just before 22 Cans announced their first project: Must remember not to give to much away about 22Cans next project, don’t get too excited, don’t over promise, ahhhhh it’s going to get messy — peter molyneux (@pmolyneux) June 4, …
What David Perry is doing running a cloud gaming company and not making an new Earthworm Jim game, I will never know. Actually, that’s a lie: no-one is interested in a new moderately humorous 2D platformer; and that cloud gaming malarkey paid off rather handsomely this week, when Sony bought his company, Gaikai, for $380 …
A couple of weeks ago, beardy indie development sorts the Pickford Bros launched their self-explanatory Games We Like page, and called for other indies to do the same. A number have done so now, and always on the look out for interesting bits to play, I thought I’d act on some of those recommendations. Karate …
The web made a step towards being a whole lot bigger yesterday, when ICANN revealed the full list of potential new generic top-level domains – because .com is terribly 1985. Sony have gone for .playstation, .xperia and .sony. Microsoft are after a handful, including .microsoft, .xbox and .live – giving them the option of both …
By now, it’s no secret what Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo wanted to say at E3. In some cases it was never a secret, even if it was supposed to be. But what about how they said it? What can we glean from the the words they used? Unfortunately – and surprisingly – no-one on the …
We had a brief look at the GameGadget – the self-proclaimed “iPod for retro games” – back in January, a couple of months before launch. Since then it’s certainly been eventful, so it’s time for a catch up. The hardware’s the easy part It launched pretty much on time, on 4th April 2012. What’s more, …