Top up your eShop accounts – it’s another busy week for new arrivals on Nintendo’s download services. We’re also going to use this opportunity to remind Wii U owners to check their Nintendo Network Premium Account – the 31st December deadline for earning points is quickly looming. On Wii U this week there’s a curiously …
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is, unsurprisingly, the UK’s new number one. It had a better first week than Call of Duty: Ghosts, but still has to settle for becoming the 5th biggest launch in the series. We should bear in mind here though that Advanced Warfare launched on a Monday, giving it an extra …
The suffering of sheep continues in this fourth instalment of Activision’s money making franchise. In fact, the first creature you’re shown how to trap – using the new portal and a ‘Traptanium’ crystal – is of the woolly variety. This monumental mammal is far from innocent however. Going by the name of Sheep Creep, they’re …
Very few publishers are willing to go up against the juggernaut that is Call of Duty, and as such this week’s new release line-up is filled with a bunch of odds and sods. If you’ll excuse that expression. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is in fact the only game out this week on PS4 and …
When Insomniac began pitching Sunset Overdrive to publishers they took along a bag containing various comic books, DVDs, toys, masks and other bits and pieces to help illustrate the kind of vibe they wanted it to have. Noticing some heavy rock ‘n’ roll influences inside their bag of goodies, publishers feared that the studio wanted …
Football Up Online, The Swapper, a bunch of premium-priced downloads and two Mega Man Virtual Console re-releases – that’s what you’ll find on the UK Nintendo eShop this week. Curve Digital’s puzzle platformer hybrid The Swapper performed very well on PlayStation, with the PS Vita version in particular gaining a lofty 86% Metacritic. “The Swapper …
If you’ve noticed that the buzz surrounding Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is somewhat less than previous entries then you’re not alone. Perhaps Activision has finally realised that people will go out and buy in droves regardless of heavy advertising campaigns? Reviews would suggest this year’s iteration is worthy of the minimal buzz it has …
Eight new titles managed to enter this week’s UK top 40. None could topple FIFA 15 however, which remains on top for a sixth consecutive week. With the new Call of Duty now available though it’s doubtful it’ll make it for a seventh. Microsoft’s hyperactive shooter Sunset Overdrive arrived at #2 and is followed by …
Auto-saving has made gaming considerably easier over the years. No longer do we have to remember to save progress every few minutes; if we die we simply go back to near where we left off, making the consequences of failure minimal at the most. That’s not the case in Alien: Isolation. This deep space survival …
There’s yet another strong showing of new titles out this Friday. Some acquired tastes are required for this assortment though. Xbox One-exclusive Sunset Overdrive blends elements from Jet Set Radio, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Dead Rising to form a vividly colourful shooter. We were worried about the thrills it provides being short-lived, but critics …
Thinking of trading-in Titanfall towards one of the big name new releases? Hold your fire – Update 8 has just dropped. Instead of simply adding a few more Titan insignias and whatnot, it includes a very good reason to dust off your copy – a highly substantial four player co-op mode. Frontier Defense sees yourself …
Hot on the heels of Bayonetta 2 comes another Wii U essential – Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones. Curve Digital’s anticipated co-op stealth puzzler launches on the eShop this Thursday, along with half-a-dozen other releases. When Curve announced that they were defecting to the Wii U for Stealth Inc’s sequel it caused something …
Entering at a very respectable #7, Bayonetta 2 charted the highest out of last week’s bumper bounty of new releases. The fact that Nintendo Land is back in the top 40 suggests that the Wii U-exclusive managed to shift a few more consoles for Nintendo. Mario Kart 8 however stayed put at #30. Civilization: Beyond …
The Xbox 360 revamp of GTA: San Andreas managed to escape the grasp of our weekly new release round-up. There’s an acceptable reason for this though – it has been rumoured, officially announced and launched all within the space of a week. Released in the nick of time for the crime caper’s 10th anniversary – …
When Capcom announced Resident Evil: Gaiden for the Game Boy Color it came as a surprise to many. Not because the source material was undecidedly unsuitable for the demographic, but because Capcom had cancelled a handheld conversion of Resident Evil just a year before. Developed by London-based HotGen Studios, it pushed Nintendo’s 8-bit handheld hard …
