Matt Gander It may have a hateful ‘z’ in the title, but this wasn’t originally anything to do with Ubisoft’s dire Catz and Dogz games. Love Love Hamster is the name it went by in Japan, and it has simply been rebranded to fit into the French publisher’s pet pampering portfolio. Over in the US it has …
A few years back there were rumours of Halo appearing on Game Boy Advance. Certain websites laughed at the idea, but not us: an isometric shooter set in the Halo universe would have worked just fine on the handheld. Plus, when the rumours emerged, Mircosoft were readying a Game Boy Advance version of Xbox launch …
Despite being reviewed months ago, Micro Machines V4 has finally managed to make it out onto Nintendo DS this week. Our best guess for the delay is that Codemasters thought all the lucky people who received a DS for Christmas will go out and buy it. The only other game out is another Codemasters effort …
By the time Sega were ready to release the Dreamcast in Europe and the US, a decent launch line-up had amassed. Sonic Adventure wasn’t the first 3D Sonic game, but it’s still arguably the greatest, Virtua Fighter 3 was almost arcade perfect, Toy Commander put a neat twist on war games, and Hyrdo Thunder was …
Although we didn’t review them, we are well aware that EA managed to balls up – no pun intended – this year’s NBA Live updates. One reviewer even reckoned that it was “literally” impossible to stop opponents from scoring. Wait just a second. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of 2K Sports coming to …
Paul ‘Mr Biffo’ Rose, former Teletext pixel-art master and all round nice guy, has finished penning his 288 page book Confessions of a Chatroom Freak. Extract-me-do: VWXman: hey there LoopyLisa21f (Biffo): Hello, dear. VWXman: so wot do u do then?? work, play, student, mummy, housewife?? LoopyLisa21f: I’m training to be a school teacher, and at …
Need for Speed Carbon has been toppled from top of the chart to #3, with Pro Evolution Soccer 6 and FIFA 07 taking places #2 and #1 respectively. Wii Zelda – which was at #11 last week – is out of the Top 40 entirely. In fact, there are no Wii-exclusives in the chart at …
» The PlayStation 2 will become a dumping ground for crap, with Little Britian: The Videogame in particular being a steaming festering pile. » Sony will finally get around to releasing some PSP games that people actually want to play. They will also launch a new version of the PSP, with built in microphone, camera …
You probably know all about Atari’s money woes. Things took a turn for the worst around a year ago, prompting them sell a handful of studios and flog a few of their franchises, such as Stuntman and Driver. But rather than shut up shop for good they’re sticking to their guns, hoping to be back …
While we patiently wait for Nintendo of Europe to update the Stars catalogue with the ability to turn surplus Stars into Wii shopping channel points, Nintendo of Japan have decided to rub a couple of new Club Mario freebies in our faces. The first is a custom-made Wii remote battery cover featuring your Mii. From …
Oh, Amazon. Your sales used to be so good. Just two Nintendo DS games reduced this year? That’s really pitiful. Even more so when one of these is the dire King Kong; the other isn’t even a game, it’s the DS Lite Browser for £14.87. Star Ocean and Makai Kingdom on PlayStation 2 – for …
You may remember that a few months ago we reported on one man’s mission to bring classic Amiga platformer Qwak to the Game Boy Advance. That man was Jamie Woodhouse – the sole designer and programmer of the original. With promises crushed by publishers – some of which wanted to totally re-skin the game – …
Sod Boxing Day – pretty much all of the sales are now go, both online and across the cold high streets of England. Over at Game, Yakuza on PlayStation 2 is £9.98, bizarre music/RPG thing Steambot Chronicles is £14.98, X-Men III on DS is £7.98 – although we can’t remember if it’s any good or …
Hurrah! Hurrah! Not one but two new animal nurturing games are available on Nintendo DS today – Hamsterz (known as Hamsterz Life in the US) and My Animal Hospital In Africa. The latter is the first Nintendo DS game from Europress, whose last console game, from what we can ascertain, was that awful Smarties thing …
What is up, vanilla faces? I’m Forty Nine Pence, the numero uno aficionado of the great rap luminary 50 Cent, or Good Sir Fiddy as his home lads say. Today I intend to proclaim the virtues of Fiddy’s new game, specifically G Unit Edition for the PSP. Now just let me doff my cap and …