Change4Life is some sort of scheme dreamt up by the Government and various charities to encourage children to be healthy. This is a good thing. The entire games industry seems to have taken offence at one particular Change4Life advert, which points out that children who do nothing might die early. This is illustrated by a …
It’s still a mystery what’s going to be in the inside of the 200th issue of EDGE (apart the regular reviews and previews, obviously) but at least we know what’s going to be on the outside – one of 200 different cover designs. Yes, 200. That’s them to the right of this paragraph, and there’s …
I am not a snake but, unlike our delightful friends across the pond, I shorten mathematics to maths, not math. I had a number of American lecturers in my now distant mathematical past, so it doesn’t really bother me, but I like to make the distinction nonetheless. Getting to the point, Nintendo is going to …
Well that’s a relief: LittleBigPlanet is coming to PSP in 2009. A relief because it’s still the only thing really tempting me to buy a PlayStation 3, so I don’t need to now. It makes sense though. With neither PSP nor PlayStation 3 exactly flying off the shelves, the best tactic is to throw every …
Noby Noby Boy is said to be both good and cheap. The same goes for the new Noby Noby Boy T-shirts that Panic are selling. They’re $24.95 a pop, and yes, they do ship to the UK. They’ve still got some Katamari Damacy shirts in stock too, including a fetching fuzzy orange one.
Sega has slipped up! Next to the caption for Sonic 2 on the back of the new Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (known as Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection in the US, for some bizarre reason) somebody has used an image of Sonic 3 by mistake. It’s an easy blunder to make in all fairness – …
Brash Entertainment must be the worst thing to happen to videogames for a long time. After pumping out tat like Jumper, Space Chimps and Alvin and the Chipmunks they went bankrupt, leaving a handful of independent developers up poo creek and ditching several games in the process. These apparently included Saw, Prison Break, Clash of …
It’s all well and good using videogame artwork as desktop wallpaper, but a chap named Orioto has gone one better and drawn his own based on retro videogames. They’re available at Deviant ART to download and look dazzling. Shame Sega can’t make a 2D Sonic game that looks as good as this.
UK Charts Lily Allen’s The Fear is #1 in the music single chart; F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin is #1 in both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 charts. Conspiracy? I think so. It can’t knock Wii Fit off the top of the Top 40 UK chart though, having to make do with #2. There are also …
Pop-Up Pirate! ranks below even Buckaroo on the scale of incredibly basic childhood games. You insert small plastic swords into slots in a barrel until, by pure chance, you hit the slot that makes the pirate pop out of the barrel this time. The infant entertainment comes from the pirate popping out of the barrel, …
New Scientist – as proper a scientific website as you could ask for – brings news of a European emulation project called KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable). It’s going to cost over €4 million, and last 36 months. Our own University of Portsmouth is one of the participants. It’s aim is wide: to safeguard access …
It feels a little strange seeing big game releases at this time of year. Well, perhaps it’s not that strange – February is still a fairly dull, cold and wet month for many, an ideal time to sit inside and forget your troubles with a game. Maybe I’m just suffering bus stop syndrome. It feels …
The Eidos share price has more than doubled this morning, on the news that Square Enix has made an offer for the company. The motivation is obvious, and as Yoichi Wada, President of Square Enix, puts it: “Eidos’ products are highly complementary to our business and will accelerate our aggressive expansion into Western markets.” Chairman …
Future Publishing have recently made my head hurt. Back in June they ended the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine but decided to keep the Official PSP Guidebook going. Six months on, it’s increasingly evident that they’ve made the wrong decision. The latest issue of OPG makes for depressing reading – it’s released every 8 weeks but …
The nominations for the British Academy Video Game Awards have been announced, and make for really rather dull reading. For the sake of it: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has seven nominations; Grand Theft Auto IV has six; Fable II and LittleBigPlanet have five each. Anyway, what struck me were the categories. I can …