Over the years Capcom’s street fighters have faced a wealth of new faces to pummel, from Marvel Superheroes to SNK’s lesser known brawlers. Midway have now decided to make a belated jump on the crossover bandwagon, with Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. Shame it wasn’t DC Thomson Universe – we could have had Scorpion fighting …
There is, apparently, a shortage of official Nintendo Wii Wheels. But worry not – issue 23 of NGamer (which is due to reach newsagents next week) comes with a free steering wheel shaped piece of plastic. Which isn’t a bad freebie at all, really. In other magazine related news, Retro Gamer hits nifty fifty this …
The Nintendo Wii was the highest selling console in American this March. Nothing unusual about that, except that to win that title, it outsold the Xbox 360 by 459,000 systems. That’s a lot. Overall Nintendo sold 721,000 Wiis, which made it the biggest non-Christmas month for the Wii yet. The DS was shamed into second …
The DS RPGs just keep on coming, with Square Enix’s The World Ends With You making it out to stores this week. It’s set in Shibuya, Tokyo, and features a battle system that spans two screens. Apparently it works really well. If you own a PlayStation 3 and have some money to burn, then you …
Travis Touchdown is a curious fellow. He’s a sleazy anti-hero of sorts, who lives in a dingy motel packed full of anime figurines and is on a mission to become #1 assassin by taking out the top 10 one by one. Pleasingly, that’s about as complex as the plot gets. You can’t help but like …
This is a video of a man playing the Mario theme tune with bottles and a remote control car. That is all. Mario Bottle Theme
Chart Track are good are providing interesting statistical snippets, such as pointing out that Mario Kart Wii – which has gone to the top of the chart this week – has managed a launch bigger than all five of the other Mario Wii games combined. There are also four Mario games in this week’s top …
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 by midweek; Play.com and Amazon.co.uk have none …
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, rather the notion that someone would need …
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 …