The home consoles did very well for themselves last week, with dozens of new renditions of big name franchises making an appearance. This week it’s the DS and 3DS that get to shine. Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call is this winter’s big DS offering from Nintendo. Us Europeans however aren’t quite getting the full …
It’s another good week for gamers. That’s providing you have healthy bank balance, at least – there are half a dozen big name titles out this week. The old-age question if whether Mario can blow stripy balloons up with his arse has finally been answered. As the image to the right shows, he can indeed. …
So here it is, Sony’s big Christmas game – Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Reviews have so far included 9 from EDGE, a 10 from Destructoid and 5/5 from The Guardian. Eurogamer caused a little bit of a fuss on the internet by giving it an 8 – they found it a little bit “narrowâ€. The …
There’s only one game out this week that matters, and that’s Fifi and the Flowertots: Fifi’s Garden Party on DS. We’re joking of course – it’s Battlefield 3. Reviews poured out onto the internet earlier this week, along with the announcement that it’ll have a hefty day one patch. At the time of typing the …
Batman: Arkham City. Now this is a game that a lot of people have been waiting for. Visually it’s sublime – Rocksteady have managed to master the Unreal Engine in a way that only Epic themselves have. They’ve also managed to give us the first decent rendition of Robin. Robin often looks a bit camp …
You have to laugh – Capcom are charging £14.99 for downloads of their old Resident Evil titles, yet online retailers are asking a mere £17.99 for retail release Dead Rising: Off The Record. It’s not an entirely new game, but there’s a good 15 hours of play at hand along with a new theme park …
id Software’s RAGE provoked a bit of a sharp response from the developer’s fan base when it was first announced. There’s no multi-player (id themselves invented the term ‘death-match’ lest you forget, back when Doom was released) and it also features racing elements, which is something rarely fused into first person shooters. The developer’s response …
FIFA 12 – or Females Ignored For Another 12 months, as some people have cheekily titled it – is this week’s biggest release. Plenty of good things are being said, although 360 magazine pointed out that if you’re only playing it offline you’re going to miss out on the best stuff. There a rather informative …
We’ve brought this week’s new release round up forward a couple of days as this week’s biggest release – Gears of War 3 – is being released today. A Tuesday, of all days. Reviews hit the ‘net late last week. The Official US Xbox magazine gave it a perfect score of 10/10 while the Official …
Last week was an eventful one for new releases. This week? Not so much, but there’s a fair old bit of variety. Perhaps not for PlayStation 3 owners though, as their new releases aren’t actually all that new – they’re Splinter Cell Trilogy HD and God of War Collection Volume II. Eurogamer said that the …
Our cynical side told us to be wary of Dead Island. The trailer caused a lot of excitement on the ‘net but fancy CGI alone isn’t enough to distract from the fact that it’s by the developers behind Call of Juarez – a series that hardly has a glowing reputation. Were we right to be …
When Ubisoft bagged the Driver license from Atari they had a huge task on their hands – to restore the public’s faith in the series. Driv3r was the joke of the industry, after all. Ubisoft’s Wii conversion of Driver Parallel Lines and the PSP-exclusive Driver ’76 were a step in the right direction, and if …
Reviews for Deus Ex: Human Revolution went live on Monday and just about everybody, from EDGE to Eurogamer, has dished out a 9. EDGE had a little grumble about the loading times (over a minute on the 360 version) but that’s about it. If it doesn’t boot Zumba Fitness off the top of the chart …
Those who have been waiting patiently for a major Wii release will be rejoicing this week – Xenoblade Chronicles is here. Very few bad things have been said about this JRPG, with the likes of Eurogamer dishing out a 9 while NGamer Magazine awarded it their highest score of the year so far – a …
You don’t need me to tell you that Pheasants Forever is a hunting game. And as you may have guessed, it’s for Wii. But what a strange name to call a game – if people hunted pheasants forever then there will be none left. I suppose though they couldn’t have called it Pheasant Slaughter Sim. …