Matt Gander Over the years Capcom’s street fighters have faced a wealth of new faces to pummel, from Marvel Superheroes to SNK’s lesser known brawlers. Midway have now decided to make a belated jump on the crossover bandwagon, with Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. Shame it wasn’t DC Thomson Universe – we could have had Scorpion fighting …
There is, apparently, a shortage of official Nintendo Wii Wheels. But worry not – issue 23 of NGamer (which is due to reach newsagents next week) comes with a free steering wheel shaped piece of plastic. Which isn’t a bad freebie at all, really. In other magazine related news, Retro Gamer hits nifty fifty this …
The DS RPGs just keep on coming, with Square Enix’s The World Ends With You making it out to stores this week. It’s set in Shibuya, Tokyo, and features a battle system that spans two screens. Apparently it works really well. If you own a PlayStation 3 and have some money to burn, then you …
Travis Touchdown is a curious fellow. He’s a sleazy anti-hero of sorts, who lives in a dingy motel packed full of anime figurines and is on a mission to become #1 assassin by taking out the top 10 one by one. Pleasingly, that’s about as complex as the plot gets. You can’t help but like …
Chart Track are good are providing interesting statistical snippets, such as pointing out that Mario Kart Wii – which has gone to the top of the chart this week – has managed a launch bigger than all five of the other Mario Wii games combined. There are also four Mario games in this week’s top …
Puzzles, brain teasers, riddles, conundrums – whatever you want to call them, the inhabitants of the peculiar village of St. Mystere are full of them. In fact, their biggest export is not any type of animal, mineral or vegetable but, as you may have guessed, puzzles. Or whatever you choose to call them. The titular …
An unnamed developer has been talking to MTV about Microsoft’s plans for a Wii-style motion sensitive remote for the Xbox 360, claiming that Rare have been working on such a device since last August. That’ll explain why Viva Pinata: Party Animals was palmed off to Krome Studios. According to their source it looks a lot …
It doesn’t take much to confuse the internet. Earlier this week Ubisoft announced the Wii-exclusive Emergency Heroes, which looks almost identical to Codemaster’s Wii-exclusive Emergency Mayhem. So much so, in fact, that some websites thought that the game had simply changed publisher… which wouldn’t be the first time seeing as Emergency Mayhem has been on …
It’s a good week for both Wii and PSP owners, but mostly for the former. On Nintendo’s white opus there’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, The House of the Dead, Dancing Stage Hottest Party, Sega Bass Fishing and the sadly offline-only Worms: A Space Oddity amongst others. Then over on PSP there’s the God of War: …
Lost’s drug addict ex-hobbit Charlie wasn’t pleased about being pushed aside in the latest season of Lost, and so went and snagged a role in the upcoming X-Men: Wolverine movie. His character? Beak – a humanoid birdman with feathers, talons and a beaked face. Call us cynical, but going from an edgy addict in one …
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has become Ubisoft’s first #1 of the year and is also the fifth Tom Clancy game to take the top spot. More facts: sales were split 77% Xbox 360 and 23% PlayStation 3, and it’s the fourth fastest selling Xbox 360 game so far. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games …
The price of Virtual Console games is a regularly debated topic, but things look set to improve slightly for those after a retrofix – Sega has announced that their Master System back-catalogue will cost just 400 Wii Points (£3) a pop. The first games down for a re-release in the US are Wonder Boy and …
SEGA Tennis Superstars and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 are this week’s big ones, although to be fair there isn’t much else out. SEGA Tennis Superstars has been getting good reviews, which isn’t surprising seeing it’s by Sumo who had a hand in the last Virtua Tennis games. Rumour has it that both Alex …
Does Midas’ new DS game ring any bells with you? Don’t let the similar name fool you though – it’s weapon based, so it’ll probably play more like a shoddy clone of Wipeout than Nintendo’s rip-roaring racer. It’s out in April – £11.99 from Play.com if your interest is piqued.
If this week’s chart is anything to go by, people are desperate for rubbish war games and painfully dire mini-game collections for Wii. Carnival: Fun Fair Games is up from #16 to #6, while Game Party is hanging around just outside the top ten at #11. Turning Point – which seems have to scored mediocre …