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 – only managed to produce the rather …
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, and he had a few interesting things …
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 about (such as Assassin’s Creed and FIFA …
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 …
Rock Band is one of the most self explanatory titles in recent history. It’s a rhythm action game where multiple controllers link up to become … a rock band. It’s been one of the biggest games over in the States for a while now, and it’s already sold one and a half million units. It’s …
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 majority of his games for free via …
We really loved Persona 3. It had a wonderful, unique quality, so I think now is a good time to talk about it’s sequels. The first sequel Persona 3: FES (the FES apparently stands for festival) was released in Japan along with the original game. It’s basically a continuation of the original game, with more …
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 nowadays (and whatever the video ones are …
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 wound him right up. The fact 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, but in the mean time you should …
Useless videogame accessories have been around for as long as videogames themselves. Who remembers the infamous Game Veil, a piece of black cloth designed for putting over your head while playing handheld games? Or those extra speakers for the original Game Boy, so that everybody in an entire train/bus/school/underground nuclear bunker can have their ears …
A short while ago Sony got a scolding over Resistance on PlayStation 3 featuring a battle in Manchester Cathedral. What occurs in Global Defence Force isn’t as sacred, but within the first few minutes alone you can reduce Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament or the London Eye to a pile of rubble. If the …
Nintendo’s philosophy has always been to wait and see what their competitors are up to, then go one step further and better their products. It happened with the SNES, it happened with the Nintendo 64 and it arguably happened with the Wii. Back in 1995 however, the Kyoto giant went head first into the world …