Matt Gander Ubisoft aren’t as chummy with Nintendo in the way that Capcom or Sega are, but they did help bolster the Wii’s western launch with a large number of titles and continue to heavily support the system. With this in mind, quite a few people asked why Nintendo didn’t lend them the Excitebike name for this …
No, that’s not a late Christmas greeting – Telly Addicts is out on Wii this week. Obviously that’s not the biggest game out – that’s a combination of Battalion Wars 2, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings and Cooking Mama 2. Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles on PSP is bound to be worth getting your teeth into …
Patapon is looking like the best thing to happen to the PSP since LocoRoco. Featuring characters drawn by the French graphic artist Rolito, it’s your job to march the Patapons into battle by pushing various buttons in time with the beat. A sort of musical platform game, if you will. Reviews have been glowing so …
Confusion! Way back in 2002, EA were working on an Aliens game for PlayStation 2 entitled Aliens: Colonial Marines. Some screenshots were released, but eventually the game was blasted out of an airlock and into a dark void. Now according to US magazine Game Informer, the name of the Aliens game Gearbox are developing for …
Remember the fuss about Starfox having to be renamed in Europe? Well, it would seem that publishers have no qualms about releasing two almost identical sounding games in this day and age. Enter Agetec’s Puzzle Guzzle for PSP, and Blast’s Puzzle Buzzle for PS2 and DS. Which of course both sound a bit like Tatio’s …
Tears of joy for Capcom this week as Devil May Cry 4 takes to the top of the charts. It would appear, then, that the decision to make it multi-format was a wise one. But would have it gone straight to #1 if it had been released on PlayStation 3 only? It’s impossible to say …
I really don’t understand what’s going on with Game’s new release section. According to them Turok, Devil May Cry 4 and The Club aren’t out today, despite running pre-order promotions for all three for the past month or so. Sort it out, fellas. The ‘big three’, then. As Jake mentioned earlier this week Turok is …
Burnout Paradise has held onto the top spot for a second week running, which isn’t a surprise given that it’s the biggest game released in 2008 so far. Wii Play has moved up a couple of places to take second, while WWE Vs Raw 2008 has gone back into the top ten, rising from #12 …
Pillaging their back catalogue is something Sega like to do quite often, but the results haven’t exactly been positive – for every Outrun 2 or Sega Rally there’s an a rancid 3D update of Alien Syndrome or Altered Beast. NiGHTS is a funny one – sequels have been rumoured for ages but it has taken …
This week won’t go down in history as a good one for new releases, with only a trio of titles out – Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom and NFL Tour on Xbox 360 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 on DS. Pity we aren’t all living in Japan – Super Smash Bros. Brawl is causing …
With 17 million copies of Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training sold across the globe, you’d think that the titular professor would be rolling in it. Not so – in an interview with AFP it was revealed that he politely turned down royalties claiming that his salary of Â¥11 million (around £50,000) was enough to live on. …
There’s a little bit of history behind this PSP exclusive. You see, Rebellion were the first studio to have a go at pitting cinema’s illustrious baddies together way back on the Atari Jaguar, but after doing four Aliens vs. Predator titles in a row the license holders decided to let another studio (Monolith) have a …
It’s been a while since the last Burnout, so it’s good to see that it hasn’t become another fixture of EA’s yearly update rooster. Although there was Burnout Revenge on Xbox 360, this is the first proper next-gen Burnout and reviews have been pretty positive even though the crash junctions have gone. If you’ve got… …
With 8 million copies of Nintendogs sold in Europe alone, it’s a wonder that Nintendo hasn’t milked their puppy pampering sim further than the lame Dalmatian edition. Every other publisher has since cashed in on the DS virtual pet craze – just take a look at the DS charts – but we can’t turn down …