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Nintendo can’t really cope with being popular, can they? After years of not exactly failure, but certainly not runaway success, they’re probably just out of practice. Mario Kart for the Wii is the latest product looking like it might be scarce. Gameplay.com had presold their entire initial allocation...

How about converting your PlayStation 3 into a laptop? I’m not quite sure what to make of it. On the one hand, well done that man for spending 14 months squeezing his PS3 into a new case. Though, it does look wrong – not the design so much,...

Do you remember a year or two ago, Sega couldn’t stop buying and opening Western development studios, in the hope that the result would be more games appealing to the North American market? Well that’s starting to crumble already. Britain’s own Sega Racing Studio – based in Birmingham...

Yesterday I reported about the European price of Rock Band being a trifle high. Indeed, it’s more than double the price our lovely friends over the pond have to pay. Today Eurogamer ran an interview with Rob Kay, a design director at Harmonix, the creators of Rock Band,...

For a variety of reasons (laziness, real life, not being bothered) I have quite a few games lying around that I should have reviewed by now. Some I spent a great deal of time playing a few months ago, but never got around to actually writing any words...

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...

The other day I was listening to some games journalist go on about games piracy. His view was quite clear; ‘pirates are bad, don’t pirate games you wouldn’t buy, pay for your games or burn in hell scum’. I understand his view, though he like me gets the...

Occasionally I’ve toyed with the notion of creating a GA podcast. Fortunately I’m too lazy to bother with such an idea and fear that it would end up awful, aside from the lack of a professional recording studio. However, I do enjoy listening to the odd gaming podcast...

I only ever played the original Mario Kart on Daniel Johnston’s SNES. He was the kind of delightful child who would play ‘Saturday Night’ by Whigfield every time I went round, knowing full well I hated it. Still, he was called Johnson’s Baby Lotion at school, and that...

As you can probably tell, the site has changed a little. In part, thanks to a messed up software update, and also just due to our fickle nature. We’ll be trying to restore service to normal over the coming hours and days, albeit with a camp new look,...