Matt Gander

When the new-look Transformers models were shown off for the first time, fans moaned about Bumblebee being turned from a Volkswagen Beetle into a Chevrolet Camaro. The creators explained that it was because they didn’t want their super-realistic movie to include a bright yellow clone of Disney’s Herbie,...

The first Stuntman game was frustrating to the extreme, resembling a memory test rather than a racing game in places. This fact wasn’t helped by the way that every time you had to restart a level – which was pretty often – it had to load again from...

Rockstar have announced their second Wii game. It’s not a Wii-make of Canis Candem Edit or any of the recent Grand Theft Autos, but rather the year-old surprise Xbox 360 hit Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis. They’re going for the casual market, it would seem, which is probably...

A 16 year old boy from Norfolk got more than he bargained for when he bought a PlayStation 2 off eBay – inside the box was €65,400 (£44,000). He didn’t get the two games promised from the seller, although it’s unlikely that he’s too peeved about that. How...

Our original plan was to print off an English translation guide to Link’s latest from GameFAQs, and have a solid blast in order to bring you a nice fact-packed review. Things haven’t quite gone to plan though, mainly because the game’s quite text heavy, and as such we...

E3 – it’s all done and dusted for another year. As usual a load of announcements have gone almost unnoticed. That’s where this round up comes in. They’re pretty chummy these days, so it’s odd that Nintendo haven’t lent Ubisoft the Excitebike name for their online-enabled Nitrobike on...

The latest issue of NGamer has fallen through subscribers’ letterboxes. Inside the magazine, which sports a nice laminated Boogie cover this month, they confirm that Project H.A.M.M.E.R. has been canned. This would explain why it wasn’t at E3. It always looked a bit rubbish, anyway.

A little bit of news to kick off this week’s new game round up: although already shipped to retailers, Mario Party 8 has been recalled by Nintendo due to a fatal bug. Game have removed all traces of it from their website while Amazon have confirmed that it...

There were a lot of war games on show at E3 – it isn’t humanly possible to even start listing them. Plenty of cartoon and movie licenses, tedious-looking first person shooters and complex-looking racing games too. But it’s not all bad, as this round up of mild innovation...

Watch this video of EA’s The Simpsons Game and you’ll see a handful of videogame parodies, from Frogger to We Love Katamari. Yeah, it’s amusing, but not laugh out loud funny. Watch it through to the end though, paying special attention to the formats it’s being released on…...

Its official: Sony have a new model PSP on the way, due worldwide in September. And no, it doesn’t feature two screens. You can connect it up to a TV to play games and watch UMD movies on a somewhat bigger screen though. The new model – which...

Like a school boy who has a girl’s pencil case, it’s all too easy to take the piss out of Nintendo Europe’s Stars catalogue. But we shouldn’t. Not just because bullying is bad, but because it isn’t a total farce. Recently – well, a few months ago –...