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There’s a BAFTA for gameplay?

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 …

It’s a Sim lifestyle choice

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SometimesÂ press releases can be quite amusing. In this case, EA sent a press release for The Sims 3, talking about the game’s limitless options to create any type of Sim you like and enjoy the lifestyle of your choice. Quickly followed by a retraction… The first press release email went something like this… “At …

Lord save us all

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After cashing in with their awful Golden Balls game, Mindscape are going to be offending us all with a Coronation Street game for the DS. It’s to be released in time for next Christmas, meaning they’ve got a good eight or nine months left to knock up something. How about a scrolling beat â€˜em up …

RPG lust

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After devouring my way through Fallout 3, twice (best post apocalyptic RPG ever, by the way), I’ve found myself desperate for some RPG satisfaction. It turns out, particularly if you like your RPGs to be of a more statty and thoughtful nature, there isn’t a great deal of choice. I couldn’t just accept the prospect …

The Nishikado

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Snowed in? Bored? Then, apropos of nothing, allow me to point you in the direction of The Nishikado by the tremendous Silvery. Where can you hear it? Why, on the band’s MySpace page of course. It mainly consists of chanting the name of Space Invaders creator Toshihiro Nishikado. It is excellent. While you’re at it, …

Take your Sega for a mega drive

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It’s only been a few years since the last Sega Mega Drive collection, but Sega are ready to release another round-up of their finest 16-bit hits later this month, this time on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Rumour has it that Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection will also include a few unlockable Master System and …

Conversion capers

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Remember when the PSone was fading fast and budget games (like CT: Special Forces, Yeti Winter Sports and Ballerburg) started popping out of thin air? It seems that the same is starting to happen to PlayStation 2: while browsing in Morrisons the other day I spotted former Wii-exclusive Nitro Bike for a mere Â£5.99. Searches …

Block party

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Sega’s Block Pipo looks like it’ll be one of those arcade games that you won’t be able to resist putting a quid or two in. Why? Because instead of joysticks it uses Lego-style bricks that you stack up onto the screen to save little bird-like critters. See: All well and good, but what happens when …

Two is enough

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I must have been faintly aware that LocoRoco 2 was on its way, but its release around these parts in November last year passed me by, as these things have a habit of doing. It wasn’t until the deluge of sales emails hit my inbox that I noticed it. In short: it’s more of the …

Quote of the whatever-you-like

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SCE big man Kaz Hirai has been trying to reassure the PlayStation faithful that they’ve made the right choice in an interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine. Which I’ve now shamelessly pilfered from Eurogamer. “This is not meant in terms of numbers, or who’s got the biggest install base, or who’s selling most in any …

Words for your eyes

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GamesRadar have been on top form this month, with a bounty of features worthy of five minutes of your day. If it came in a tin, Game names corrected by spell check would do exactly what it said on it. The Top 7… Best ports on inferior systems must have taken a fair bit of …

Virtually stupid

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Heard the one about the new PSP owner who thought you had to remove the white casing from the UMD before putting it in the handheld? Well, here’s one that manages to top it – somebody over on the NeoGAF forum claims that their neighbour put not one, not two, but three credit cards into …

RIP EGM

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It’s a sad day – legendary American videogame magazine EGM will ceased to exist as of this month. The February issue, which was due to feature Street Fighter IV on the cover, won’t even make it to the press. It will apparently be available online at 1UP.com soon though. EGM stood tall over other US …

You’re buying more budget tat

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The BBC has properly reported on 2008’s video game sales figures, as released by ELSPA and GfK Chart-Track. Basically: we’re buying more games than ever, and across all formats. But it’s not that I’m interested in. Unit and pound figures have been released, meaning we know the average price people are paying for games on …

Do the locomotion

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The January sales – which, oddly, have been starting in mid-December for the last few years – are a thing of brilliance. Not only are the big name games recently released cut in price (Mirror’s Edge for under Â£15? Thanks, Tesco!) but many retailers also flog off the titles that have been gathering dust for some time. A-Train HX, purchased for a nice Â£5.98 in Game, is one such example.

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