Matt Gander

In a genre neatly sewn up by Activision and their annual Tony Hawks knee scraping sims, you’d be forgiven for thinking that EA’s developers would struggle to get one over on the bird man. Admittedly we did have our doubts on hearing ‘Ace of Spades’ unpredictably blaring out...

Will The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass be able to knock FIFA 08 from the top of the charts? We’d like to think so – it’s not as if the DS hasn’t been selling well in the UK. Nintendo would probably be just as pleased if it outsold...

It’s a slow news day, not that it matters much around these parts, so we’d though we’d introduce you to High Score 100 – a Transfomer toy loosely based on a PlayStation joypad. Sadly he’s a bit smaller than the real deal, but still very cool. Can we...

The Sims bandwagon keeps on rolling, but whereas the Wii’s rushed out conversion of The Sims 2: Pets was a bit of damp dog, this tailor-made effort is superlative stuff. In fact it’s more like a medley of Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon than a proper Sims game...

Now here’s a surprise – Capcom’s Bionic Commando – last seen in Marvel vs Capcom 2, we believe – is making a comeback on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. The first person to link the headline to the game in question wins an awesome invisible prize. The...

The second – or is it third? – PlayStation 3 price drop has shaken up the chart a bit, propelling Resistance all the way from #22 to #8 and Motorstorm up from #23 to #18. Heavenly Sword goes back in at #14 and Formula 1 also makes a...

How’d this happen? Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron – one of the biggest PSP exclusives of recent times – arrives on store shelves with hardly any fanfare. It’ll be interesting to see how well it does in the top 40 chart as this week’s #1 PSP game –...

Nintendo has been full of surprises recently, but perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that they keep on coming. Have a read of this little lot just announced at a Japanese press conference. Which was held in Japan. To be honest the first announcement isn’t really that...

Business management games work nicely on the DS, as EA’s conversions of Theme Park and Sim City have proved. One that seems to have passed under the radar though is the largely self-explanatory Toy Shop by Lexicon Entertainment, due out early next year. Two siblings inherit their grandfather’s...

After just one week Halo 3 has been knocked from the top of the charts by FIFA 08. Bungie’s blaster now rests at #2, with Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights at #3. We’d say that THQ timed the release of Juiced 2 just right – it probably wouldn’t...

After last week’s chaotic release schedule things have calmed down somewhat this week, with Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions on PSP being the only highlight. Both EDGE and Eurogamer gave it a 9, with the latter claiming it to be “Gorgeous, complex, well-written and beautifully...

Surprise! Billy the Wizard on Wii has managed to outsell Halo 3, stopping it from taking the chart’s top spot. We jest, of course – Bungie’s opus has become the second fastest selling game in the UK with an estimated 466,000 copies sold. The 360 has an installed...