Something Awful have knocked up a guide to what was required in order to get the ‘Nintendo Seal of Quality’ stamped on their game, throughout Nintendo’s console history. You can see it by clicking on these words. Best bit: “Works extra good when blown on.†The infamous seal was never intended to show consumers that …
Play-Asia just popped an email in my inbox promoting two new upcoming Dreamcast releases: 2D Shooter DUX and watery puzzler Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles. Last Hope developer NG:DEV.TEAM is at the helm of DUX. The choice of colour palate is bold (to say the least) but there’s a nice smooth visual style. Wind and …
Are beat ’em ups back? I’ve not used that term in ages. Beat ’em up. Brilliant. Once one of the busiest genres, these days we’re pretty much left with Tekken, Virtua Fighter and Soulcalibur. It makes me wonder whether video game genres are subject to boom and bust, much like the economy. Ten years from …
Has London Games Festival – kicking off later this month – got it right now? Take Video Games Live – a performance of video game music by co-creators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, and the English Chamber Orchestra. That’s proper, real life classical musicians right there. It’s at the Royal Festival Hall, but tickets are …
Does Bomberman ever have trouble getting through airport security?
You may have heard that Sainsbury’s cut the price of Xbox 360 and Wii consoles this week by £30 a piece. But if you’re struggling to find one, then don’t blame Sainsbury’s staff for snapping them up – Game, GameStation and other high street stores have confessed that they sent out store managers to pick …
Are you a PC MMO player that can’t be bothered to pop down to Tesco for food supplies for your 48 hour intense leveling-up sessions? Well here’s news for you, lardy – you’re going to die a sad and lonely life. But you probably knew this already, so here’s some real news – Biosilo Foods …
Game have been emailing those who have pre-ordered the Fable II Collector’s Edition warning that nearly all of the proposed goodies have been dropped due to a “supply chain issueâ€. The Hobbe figurine and a set of five postcards were the first items to be removed around a week ago, but now the soundtrack and …
Nintendo can’t sit still for two minutes. After introducing the redesigned DS Lite a couple of years ago, they’re at it again. This time it’s called the DSi and it’s an ever-so-slightly modified version of the DS Lite. What’s new? The DSi features a slightly bigger 3.25″ screen (as opposed to 3″ on the DS …
Sony seem to be pushing the PSN a lot recently. First they had GT4 Prologue released as a download, and now two major titles have popped up in a week. Wipeout HD is in a word, superb. It looks amazing, the craft control perfectly, and there’s tons of stuff to do. They’ve even managed to …
As you may have read (or seen) elsewhere, Bungie aren’t ditching Halo just yet and yesterday released a teaser trailer for what looks like a new Halo 3 campaign. Around half way through the video some garbled text appears and if you watch without blinking the words ‘MADDIE, WHERE ARE YOU?’ flash up for a …
Game, Gamestation and Play are all giving away the original Nintendo 64 Banjo-Kazooie as a free Xbox Live Arcade download when you pre-order Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts on Xbox 360. The two games tie into each other to make use of the abandoned swap-shop feature that Banjo-Tooie was supposed to use. So it’s a good …
I dutifully downloaded the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – subtitled Homestar Runner – when it was released on WiiWare. For free, of course, using the Wii Points I’d exchanged for the Stars I’ve collected over the years. I intended to review it properly, but now that the second episode …
Retro box art can be a great source of amusement, as proved by the artwork for the first ever Mega Man game. The wags over at The Minus World have decided to go one step further and knock up some retro-style artwork for current releases including Bioshock, No More Heroes and Portal. The result? Like …
Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth McFarlane is branching out into animated shorts, with the first an amusing little parody of Super Mario. Sponsored by Burger King! This about a dog on a gameshow is better still.