One of the more unusual stories to break after the Xbox One reveal was that Microsoft has patented the ability to unlock achievements by watching TV. One obvious use is as an incentive to tune into certain shows and films. It’s not an idea that’s massively new – there have been movie trailers on Xbox …
We could start this article by sharing our views on the morality of luring children into fast food resultants via free toys, but then we remembered our tagline: “finding the fun”. That subject would be precisely no fun at all to discuss. One, believe it or not, allowed you to mould a moustache out of …
The 3DS was released in Europe two years ago today. If it were a child it would be entering the notorious ‘terrible twos’, sporadically having tantrums in public and throwing bits of mashed up banana at passers by. Right now though the 3DS’s future is looking anything but terrible. This wasn’t always the way. The …
Regional taste and brand recognition are the reasons for the ten games below not being released in the UK. It certainly doesn’t have anything to do with the games in question being a little too odd – this is the country that gave the world Little Britain, Fawlty Towers, Monthy Python and Mr. Blobby. It …
Evolved Games are a publisher who are no longer around. When you look at their back catalogue it’s no surprise as to why – their biggest release was Terminator Salvation, which is often referred to as being one of this generation’s worst movie tie-in. Smash and crash racer Mayhem was the last title the publisher …
If you’re a wrestling fan, there’s a good chance you could be a thirteen year old boy. Coincidentally, THQ’s WWE SmackDown! series has been dominating the wrestling videogame scene for just over thirteen years. So THQ’s WWE games could be all you’ve ever known, virtual wrestling-wise, if you are indeed thirteen. “THQ almost managed to …
Since bagging what remained of Midway in 2009, Warner Bros. hasn’t done a great deal with Midway’s assets. They published the Mortal Kombat game NetherRealm were working on at the time, there have been a couple of half-baked retro collections – one for consoles, and one for iOS – and a Spy Hunter game was …
In a time when review scores matter more than ever, most publishers and developers are putting some long overdue attention into their licensed games. A few duffers do still slip out though, in hope that people will buy them based on name alone. We’ve put our thinking caps on and tried to formulate remedies to …
We almost didn’t notice, but it turns out the PS Vita is one year old this weekend. Being the modest little handheld that it is, we thought we’d bake it a cake and surprise it with the birthday bumps! When the PS Vita was first announced in January 2011 we were reasonably impressed with it, …
As you may have noticed from the flood of coverage online this week, Sony have unveiled the PlayStation 4. Or haven’t, in that we didn’t get to see the box itself. But we could argue over semantics all day. (We won’t.) They did show the new DualShock 4 controller, so let’s focus on that. I …
Most web-based mini-games are designed with one goal in mind: to promote full price titles. A lot of them are terrible, but there are a few exceptions perfectly suited for a quick play during a lunch break. Here’s a quick recap of the freebies found on Sony’s and Microsoft’s websites for all the office-bound bods …
If we were asked to name the movie series which has had the greatest influence over videogames as a whole, we wouldn’t hesitate to answer with the original Star Wars trilogy. Probe us a bit more and ask what film has had the greatest influence over the FPS genre, and that answer would be 1986’s …
There’s a Hong Kong-based online retailer where, hidden away from the official console bundles and realms of third party peripherals, there’s a peculiar section titled “Other videogame consolesâ€. Here you’ll find a variety of dubious looking handhelds of all shapes and sizes, pre-loaded with hacks of NES games and more. We don’t condone piracy here …
Not only does Microsoft have a list of the best selling XBLA games of all time on Xbox.com, but they also keep it updated daily. We doubt it changes dramatically on a day to day basis, but it’s a touch that we didn’t expect to see. Speaking of unexpected things, the official top 50 best …
Metacritic has been on the receiving end of some right old douchebaggery this year. Rest assured though that the scores below aren’t based on the site’s infamous user reviews. If that was the case then you would be seeing the likes of Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3 and FIFA 13 listed below, which currently have …