Matt Gander

Sonic needs to cut back on eating worms, dead foxes and whatever else hedgehogs eat before entering the Beijing 2008 Olympics. And Mario should know better than to waste water by fiddling with sprinklers. He’s a ruddy plumber!

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is undoubtedly this week’s big one. Review scores haven’t been as high as the first game – released six years ago now, believe it or not – but they have been higher than the slightly lacking sequel. The controls are said to be spot...

All those who said they’d eat their hat the day a decent cartoon licensed game arrives should get ready to eat hat pie – Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck on DS has been getting some very warm reviews. Rather than being another generic platformer, the idea is to frustrate...

Sega’s Football Manager 2008 – for PeeCees – has knocked FIFA 08 off the top spot and has become Sega’s first number one since Football Manager 2007. The Orange Box has managed to outsell Zelda: Phantom Hourglass – Valve’s collection goes in at #3, while Link’s latest enters...

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...