Sony’s Big in Japan sale on the PlayStation Store has some cracking bargains – if you have an lot of time on your hands. £3.99 each for Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch and Demon’s Souls? Absurd. Their critical acclaim – 85 and 89 respectively on Metacritic – are reason enough for the …
Considering the time of year, we haven’t done too badly for new releases. The last few weeks alone have seen Sniper Elite 3, GRID: Autosport, EA Sports UFC, Tomodachi Life and a handful of other notables. This week however signs of the dreaded ‘summer game drought’ are becoming apparent. Pokemon Art Academy is the biggest …
Since filing for bankruptcy earlier this year, we’ve seen a steady string of Atari licensed products. Back in May a range of casino games featuring the likes of Missile Command were announced for Facebook and mobiles, while during E3 a whole host of Atari branded tablets and mobiles were revealed. Their latest licensing endeavour is …
It’s another busy week for new Nintendo downloads, and an eventful one at that thanks to the arrival of the first third-party release with cross-buy support. That game is strategic underwater RPG Squids Odysesey. It’s due to launch on 3DS this Thursday, priced at £9.99…or for the sum of sweet nothing if you already own …
Proving that shooters are still as popular as ever, 505 Games’ Sniper Elite 3 has taken the top spot of the UK chart. The fact that the last-gen versions are available for around £25 likely played a key part in helping it get there. Watch_Dogs remains at #2 while EA Sports UFC – last week’s …
Remakes, re-releases and revamps. These three words are becoming all too common in the world of videogames. There’s another, similar, word and it’s one that sums up Rise of the Dark Spark perfectly: rehash. Even though it’s from a different developer, it heavily recycles assets from 2012’s Fall of Cybertron. Character models – ergo transformation …
The big picture news of the week was the partnership between motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, and Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital. As you can see, FIA President Jean Todt amused Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi no end at the press conference. There it was announced that four tracks in Gran Turismo 6 have been certified …
To allow plenty of reviews of the week’s new releases to materialise, we always wait until towards the end of the week to compile our weekly round-up. This week however we’re still waiting on reviews for two major releases – Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark and Sniper Elite 3. Rise of the Dark Spark …
Compared to Sony and Nintendo, Microsoft is still the new boy on the block. Relatively speaking, of course. When the original Xbox launched, Sony had already managed to make the PlayStation a household name and had successfully launched the PlayStation 2. Yet in the fifteen so or years that the Xbox brand has been around, …
Coming as a mild surprise following some lukewarm reviews, EA Sports UFC is the UK’s new number one. It’s EA’s third number one of the year, and also their first UFC title to take the top spot since acquiring the license from THQ. Watch_Dogs drops to #2, while presumably due to price-cuts Titanfall rises from …
Like a bag of Haribo Starmix, this week’s line-up of eShop downloads is all about variety. On the Wii U eShop a pairing of Wii U Sports Club titles lead the way. The Wii Sports Club: Baseball + Boxing – Double-Sport Pass costs £8.99, giving the chance to own HD revamps of Wii Sports’ baseball …
History has a habit of repeating itself. Exactly one year ago this week, Moto GP 13 and Tour de France 2013 were released. Skip forward a year, and we’re on the receiving end of Moto GP 14 and Tour de France 2014. Amazingly, both are from different publishers. How’s that for a coincidence? MotoGP 14 …
As much as we admired the concept behind Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, it was still a vastly familiar experience under the neon-hued exterior. That’s to say, the AI routines, vehicle handling and even some of the mission objectives were identical to its full-price counterpart. Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Arcade Remix Hyper Edition …
As one of the first major 3DS eShop releases, Pullblox was a delectable little puzzler that signified the kind of bite-sized morsels that Nintendo had in mind for their new download platform. Putting a unique twist on puzzlers of the block-shoving variety, and with an exemplary use of 3D to boot, it was one of …
Watch_Dogs is top dog for a third week running, keeping 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil at bay. With the World Cup now in full swing, EA’s soccer sim rises up from #6 to #2. A price cut could see it take the top spot next week, but we can’t see EA cutting it just yet. …
