Matt Gander Even before taking the Plants vs Zombies cartridge out of the box I knew there was going to be a criticism to make. Mastertronic have set £24.99 as the recommended price, which seems awfully steep for a game which was originally designed to be a small and inexpensive PC download. Even a boxed copy of …
Even with a few days extra sales behind it (it was released on a Tuesday) DiRT 3 hasn’t been able to shift L.A. Noire from the top of the chart. Instead, it has to make do with a respectable #2 placing. The Wii price drop has also helped a couple of titles re-enter the top …
Codemasters’ focus on few titles but of a better quality is paying off – the company hasn’t released a duff title in a long time. Following suit is DiRT 3, which was actually released earlier this week. Sadly for PlayStation 3 owners the early release isn’t so much of a boon for them – it …
It’s not often we cover gaming news on these pages but here’s a tasty morsel we couldn’t pass up on. According to an interview with Team 3’s Shaun Southern in the new issue of Retro Gamer – which has a nice shiny Zelda cover this month – a 3DS version of the cult retro classic …
After finding a boxed Game Boy Color in a charity shop for £2 earlier this month, most of my searches on eBay have been Game Boy related. As such, you can probably guess what format I’m going to kick off this month’s eBay round-up with. Despite being in abundance, the Pokemon games are still quite …
Brink sure knows how important it is to make a good first impression. Rather than a predictable CGI intro you’re presented with a neat stop-motion animation showing the construction and eventual ruin of The Arc – a self-sustaining floating city that has become overrun with refugees. You’re then forced to make a major decision right …
As you can see here in both black and white, L.A. Noire has taken the top spot of the chart. Chart-Track reports that it has become the fastest selling new videogame IP in the UK, with 58% of copies sold so far on Xbox 360 and 42% on PS3. With word of its greatness still …
L.A. Noire is the type of game that’ll make your console feel all shiny and new, spouting some of the most realistic facial animation seen this generation. It’s a very ambitious game but unlike most that overload on features this one comes close to perfection with only a few repetitive tasks to drag it down. …
Every month Matt pulls a magazine out for under his bed and gives it a fine going over. Stop giggling at the back there – we’re talking about video game magazines. This month: issue 149 of Electronic Gaming Monthly from December 2001. American magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly – later in life abbreviated to EGM – …
With the Portal 2 ending song proving absurdly popular on YouTube, spawning numerous remixes and tributes, now seems a good time to look back at a very short fad from the ’90s. For reasons unknown – or at least for reasons that didn’t involve making money – record labels thought that releasing remixes of music …
The last LEGO game was released less than two months ago but we’re already on the receiving end of another – LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean. This was called in at the last minute to replace the canned Armada of the Damned tie-in – in which you could choose to be good or evil, Ã …
Released: 1991/1992 Formats: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, GameGear, Mega Drive, NES, Master System and ZX Spectrum If you haven’t ever played this game then you’ve at least heard of it – take another look at the list of systems it was released on. Pretty exhaustive, right? And people say that there …
Playing this Mortal Kombat revamp is like meeting up with an old school friend. They’ve become a lot wiser and more mature, and also better looking, but because you can still remember all the stupid things they did back in the day it’s kind of hard to take them seriously. But since when did people …
Despite being around since the days of the PlayStation 2, Zumba Fitness was 505 Games’ first ever #1 when it was released about a month ago. It has now taken the top spot for a third time, knocking off Portal 2 which was #1 last week. Portal 2 is now at #2, followed by Mortal …
Steel Diver isn’t quite the triple-A title the 3DS needs right now, but with most reviews around the 7/10 mark it’ll probably tide you over until Zelda: Ocarina of Time is released. Plants vs Zombies on DS does sound like a much better proposition, however. It may not be the best version, or in indeed …