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 …
The studio behind Blues and Bullets shrewdly picked the perfect time to launch a new episodic adventure. The foregone conclusions of Game of Thrones and Tales from The Borderlands are almost upon us, while the end of Dontnod’s Life is Strange also draws near. Blues and Bullets is packaged in a similar fashion to the …
After several quiet weeks (Rare Replay was the last significant release) we finally have a UK chart worth reporting on, featuring five new arrivals in the top ten alone. Gears of War: Ultimate Edition takes the top spot, followed by the very well-received PS4-exclusive Until Dawn at #2. Disney Infinity 3.0 enters at #3 while …
Nintendo loyalists shouldn’t feel envious about the slew of big-name titles that have hit PS4 and Xbox One recently – this week’s eShop line-up is chock full of decent downloads. Making for a pleasant change, the upcoming discounts aren’t too shabby either. The Wii U is in line for six new arrivals this Thursday – …
What better use of the current generation than to tart up past hits? Probably several, but don’t tell this week’s new releases. Gears of War gets an Ultimate Edition (Xbox One), while for Dishonored it’s a Definitive Edition (Xbox One, PS4). Critics are pretty stoked with the former, but thin on the ground on the …
Bad games. We’ve seen plenty since this site started in 2001, but in this day and age of big budgets and high expectations they’ve started to become few and far between. Godzilla on PS4 was the most recent, and it’s fair to say that many were surprised by how awful it was. We’ve come to …
Oddly, there are no new Virtual Console releases due this Thursday. That’s not a huge cause for concern though – the Wii U is set to receive two retail releases and a smattering of intriguing downloads. Admittedly, we do have concerns about Devil’s Third as previews were far from flattering. It’s also set to cost …
