I’ve mentioned TrueAchievements before, but since then the site has had a clean and tidy up and had new bits added. If you haven’t been there, the site works out your true Xbox 360 Gamerscore based on how rare your acquired achievements are and how hard they actually are to obtain. You can also see …
Gears of War 2 is a typically decent sequel, improving on the original in every way possible. It looks and sounds amazing, while the new weapons – including a flamethrower and mortar cannon – have their shortcomings as well as strengths. Which is good. The new multi-player team-based horde mode is stupidly addictive, and the …
It’s the festive season, so rubbish features are a requirement. Hence this Twelve Games of Christmas. We’ll skip to the end, shall we? On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: The King of Fighters XII, » Winning Eleven, » Final Fantasy X, FIFA 09, Mario Party 8, » Ridge Racer …
In a recent spate of tidying, I had cause to go through a box of old console paraphernalia, which I’d left without a lid on. It reminded me how much we’ve moved on. Controller cables, for one thing. From the last generation of cabled consoles, PlayStation 2 definitely wins: even though my blue pad has …
The title explains it all, really, here are five things that annoy me about my 360. Firstly… …The inconsistent stupidness of it all. The 360 can play DivX when I share my media through the cumbersome Windows Media Player, but the nice Windows Media Centre interface won’t play DivX at all. This is stupid. I …
You can’t beat a bit of cake, and this Nintendo DS cake from Asda tastes sweeter than most. Well, it probably does. Maybe. The main image features artwork (note: not a screenshot) from New Super Mario Bros. while the top screen is made from cardboard with a blank ‘screen’ to write a birthday message on. …
We Brits may get our games later and often at inflated prices, but there is one advantage we have over our American friends: a continuous flow of free gifts stuck to the front of our video game magazines, some of which are actually worth the price of the magazine alone.
These are some of the best from over the years.
If I were to tell you that there’s a new console on the horizon with games from Sega, Namco, Capcom and EA confirmed, you’d be pretty excited, right? Now what if I told you that they were games initially designed to be played on a mobile phone? Less excited? I thought as much. Zeebo will …
The Most Memorable New Product Launch Survey is definitely as interesting as it sounds. It tells us today that Americans can remember fewer new things this year because of the economic shit storm and the presidential election. Moreover, it tells us that Wii Fit is the most memorable new product launch of 2008. It beat …
When Donkey Kong Country was first revealed many thought it was for the then upcoming Ultra 64 console. The twist was that it was actually for the SNES. But what if it was made for the NES instead, complete with rendered visuals? Impossible, right? Well, talented Chinese pirates ‘Hummer Team’ have had a go and …
Globe recently revealed some Gears of War branded skate shoes, but they weren’t anything fancy – just a plain black shoe with the iconic red skull logo on the side. These Nike Air Classic NES trainers, on the other hand, are obscenely desirable. Rather than covered in predicable NES-era pixel art, Nike have been cleverly …
Need for Speed must rank as one of the most improved brands we’ve seen – in terms of commercial success, at least. EA has noticed, of course, and now has plans for Need for Speed Live. Negotiations are underway to hold the event next summer at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, and a better …
HMV recently said that they want to focus on game sales in the future, but just rather than increase the number of cardboard stand-outs in the doorway, some stores have started selling pre-owned titles. Not a great surprise, seeing as there’s a lot of profit to be made, but what is surprising is that they …
There are plenty of third-party titles lined up for Giftmas for the PlayStation 2, including Tomb Raider Underworld and Sonic Unleashed, but the only Sony published game due is SingStar Singalong with Disney. With this in mind, you’d think that next year would be looking bleak for the system. But Sony has found an answer …
Absolute dedication to a very specific cause never ceases to intrigue me – and it’s more common than anywhere on the internet. Today, for example, there’s a press release about the first annual Widescreen Gaming Forum (WSGF) Awards. The WSGF website is an impressive thing. I have no interest in how well widescreen is implemented …