Destiny: The Taken King has landed Activision their first UK number one since Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Despite Bungie’s background the PS4 version came out on top with a 57% share of sales. The rest was split 34% on Xbox One, 7% on Xbox 360 and 2% on PS3. Positions #2 and #3 are …
On initial inspection Flame Over appears alarmingly simplistic. As fireman Blaze it’s your job to singlehandedly extinguish a raging inferno inside a London office block, occasionally stopping to escort citizens to safety. A tight time-limit is in place and a beady eye also has to be kept on water supplies, refillable at any water source. …
Sports games rule the roost this week – PES 2016, EA Sports NHL 16, Rugby League Live 3 and Forza 6 Motorsport are all due this Friday. What’s that you say? Forza 6 isn’t a sports game? The clue is in the title, chum. PES 2016 has arrived to a steady string of glowing reviews, …
It’s not easy being a fan of match-three puzzlers. If there isn’t some kind of saccharine-sweet license attached, then there’s often some horrid IAP system to contend with. EA’s Bejeweled games are the exception, but even then there’s a stigma to overcome before becoming hooked. Specifically, the fact that bored housewives are Bejeweled’s prime demographic. …
Wii U owners able to tear themselves away from Super Mario Maker will find a few notable bits and pieces on the UK eShop this week. Sorry, 3DS owners – all you get is a Fantasy Pirates demo and a few Pikachu themes. Year Walk is the sole indie release, priced £6.29. It’s a mobile …
After the surprise release of Shooting Love 200X back in April, we were left pondering what other previously import-only Xbox 360 games could belatedly appear on the Games on Demand service. Turns out the Xbox 360 still has a surprise or two left – fellow Japanese shooter Caladrius stealth launched in both the UK and …
Flop it like it’s hot – despite decent reviews Tearaway Unfolded is hardly off to the greatest of starts, limping in at a lowly #33 in the UK chart. Super Mario Maker on the other hand makes an incredibly strong debut at #2, becoming the 4th fastest selling Wii U release after Mario Kart 8, …
“Watch_Dogs was made by so many people that it feels like it was made by nobody at allâ€. We fail to recall which journalist said that – as does Google, bizarrely – which is a shame as that statement summed up Ubisoft’s cybercrime adventure perfectly. The game’s development was such a large scale effort that …
We’d stand a better chance at making our weekly new release round-up fully comprehensive if Microsoft issued a release schedule – the past few weeks have seen a handful of surprises releases arrive on a Friday. Last week was a fine example, dishing up Super Toy Cars, Quest of Dungeons and casual puzzle adventure Nightmares …
No new Virtual Console releases are due this week, but worry not – Super Mario Maker has more than enough nostalgia to go around. In addition to arriving at retail on Friday – packaged with an art-book as standard, and also available with a retro Mario amiibo – the incredibly well-received creation tool is also …
Konami has landed their first number one of 2015 with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, beating the opening sales for MGS2: Sons of Liberty by almost 37% in the process. It has also become the UK’s third fastest seller of the year after Batman: Arkham Knight and The Witcher III. Sales were split …
Despite fast approaching its ten year anniversary, it didn’t take very long for fond memories of Gears of War to come flooding back. We had the achievement for 25 active reloads by the end of the tutorial, managed to find most of the collectable COG tags during our first playthrough, took down General RAMM swiftly …
The hunter becomes the hunted in this 2D pixel-art platformer. Transformed into a deer by the Elder Gods, six relics must be found in order to become human again. Often mistaken for junk, these relics are handed out as rewards for completing the six pleasingly nonsensical quests at hand. If you’re thinking that six is …
It’s the end of an era. Hideo Kojima bids farewell to the Metal Gear Solid series with the incredibly well-received The Phantom Pain. This is also likely to be one of Konami’s last big-budget games, save for the Pro Evolution series, with the publisher turning their attention to mobile and gambling devices. What a way …
Next time Microsoft reveals a lackluster assortment of Games with Gold titles, bite your tongue and spare a thought for Japanese Xbox owners. A far smaller catalogue of titles in Japan has lead to some very questionable choices for freebies, with Microsoft themselves having to provide content most months. The free games on Xbox 360 …
