Sony’s free-to-play puzzler Fat Princess: Piece of Cake launched on PS Vita, iOS and Android earlier this week. We plan to review it at some stage, but for now we’re willing to say that it’s yet another solid but unspectacular match-three puzzler. It does, however, have a rather nice incentive to keep playing – once …
The latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine features a list of the top 20 PlayStation icons of all time, as voted by readers. A quick peek at the top ten has been provided – if you want to see the full list, you’ll have to pop down the newsagents. The top four are pretty …
This week brings loads of new DLC for various titles, along with a single retail release – Bandai-Namco’s curiously titled ‘Fighting Edition’ collection for PS3. Priced at around £20, it includes Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Soul Calibur V and Tekken 6. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 still sells for more than a tenner these days (it’s …
It’s funny how a change in circumstances can alter perspective. Destiny’s grind once left me in dismay, but when faced with just an hour or two of free time a day it became something to relish. Completing a couple of strikes, a spot of intergalactic patrolling and taking numerous trips to the tower in between …
Nintendo’s eShop schedule for this week includes the start of SEGA’s second batch of 3DS revamps. 3D After Burner 2 is the first arcade classic to fly out the door, priced at £4.49. 3D Fantasy Zone, 3D OutRun, 3D Fantasy Zone II, and 3D Thunder Blade are then to follow in the coming months. SEGA’s …
Despite being both the UK’s fastest selling and biggest selling game of all time, GTA V has only topped the UK chart five times. This week is one of those weeks. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – last week’s no. 1 – falls to #2 while FIFA 15 and Far Cry 4 hold at #3 …
The third year in a console’s life is usually a jubilant one. By now the console will be well established, with a user base large enough to attract studios large and small, not to mention having a sizeable enough market share for publishers to take a gamble by releasing niche titles. This isn’t quite the …
As our round-up of January’s new releases showed, this month is a surprisingly busy one. The likes of Dying Light, Saints Row IV Re-elected and Raven’s Cry aren’t due out until the end of the month however, and as such this week is almost a non-event. Almost. See, there is at least one new arrival …
Although not overly fond of the first two Dead Island games, we’re still willing to admit that they had their virtues. Namely, the weapon crafting and the ability to slay zombies with others online. This spin-off does away with these (debatably) redeeming features to allow for a slower paced single-player adventure. It’s an incredibly unstable …
There’s something of an unexpected theme connecting this week’s Nintendo eShop new arrivals – the murky underworld of the depths below us. Say “hello” to Chariot, Underground, Dig Dug and Lode Runner. We reviewed the Xbox One version of Frima Studio’s co-op platformer Chariot (£13.49) back in October before giving it another mention in our …
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker has become 2015’s first new arrival in the UK top 40, tunnelling in at #16. The official release date was last Friday but copies were available to purchase as early as before Christmas. It’s unclear if this has prevented the Wii U-exclusive from charter higher. Sales were down across the board …
After the barrage of new releases that October and November routinely bring, the release schedules tend not to clutter again until around Easter. That’s not to say that the first few months of a new year are always void of major releases though – this January alone has three titles worth investigating. One of these …
It’s a predictably quiet week for the Nintendo eShop, but the few new arrivals are worth considering and the week’s discounts aren’t to be sniffed at either. The digital version of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is the headliner, arriving on Friday for £34.99. At the time of typing the retail version is £28 on Amazon …
It’s a little hard to muster up enthusiasm for the final chart of the year. There are no new arrivals and very few re-entries, plus the titles in the top ten are likely to remain there for weeks – if not months – to come. Every game in the top ten did however see a …
Christmas issues of gaming magazines are usually packed to the rafters with reviews. Featuring just nine games – four of which were tiresome sporting sims – this wasn’t quite the case for the November 1998 issue of N64 Magazine. Considering The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was amongst the other five games though, it’s …
