Five Xbox Indie Games to try

The fact that the greatest Xbox Indie games are buried under tat like Baby Maker Extreme and Dont B Nervous Talking 2 Girls [sic] makes their discovery seem all that more special. Some damning praise for the way Microsoft manages the service, there. Perhaps we should be glad that Microsoft has never really shown any …

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Stay away from Finn’s bins

Nintendo’s download schedule for this week isn’t to be sniffed at. Why? Because you might catch a whiff of Finn’s garbage. After being released in the US back in 2012, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!! finally gains a European release via the 3DS eShop. We reviewed the DS version – …

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Fable: Anniversary falls foul to FIFA

After being cut to £20 in-store at Tesco and on Amazon – and still available for that price at the time of typing – we anticipated GTA V to retake the top spot of the UK chart. That hasn’t happened, but FIFA 14 has managed to dislodge last week’s chart topper Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, …

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Dungeon Keeper – Review

Back in the ‘90s, Bullfrog was one of the biggest names in PC gaming. Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Magic Carpet, Syndicate and Populous became instant classics overnight, but it was Dungeon Keeper that turned the fantasy genre upside, making the player the bad guy instead of the hero. The game’s tag line “It’s Good to …

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Airport Simulator 2014 – Review

It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while, a stinker of a game comes out which makes you consider whether there was a joke involved somewhere. Unfortunately, Airport Simulator is one of those stinkers. Developed by Actalogic and published by UIG Entertaintment, both companies have their roots firmly planted in simulation games, and …

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Lionhead spins us another Fable

Once destined to fill gamer’s Christmas stockings, Fable Anniversary is finally with us this week. Having read a few reviews though, we aren’t entirely sure if that extra development time was as well spent as it could have been. Eurogamer and GamesRadar – amongst others – speak of weird bugs and glitches, stuttering frame-rates, texture …

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Halo: Spartan Assault – Review

Originally intended to help Microsoft get Windows Phones and Surface tablets out of their warehouses and into gamer’s hands, twin-stick shooter Halo: Spartan Assault makes its final pit stop on Xbox 360 after launching on Xbox One last month. Usually we disapprove of mobile games being converted to console, but considering it has been a …

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Meanwhile, on the funny farm…

You know it’s a quiet week for new Nintendo downloads when a farming simulator takes the limelight. At least My Farm on Wii U looks far jollier than the recent – and also rubbish – console iteration of Farming Simulator 2013, sporting a colourful European visual style and a more comical vibe. The £7.19 download …

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Lara Croft – still gaming’s leading lady

We never doubted that Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition would enter the UK top ten, but the fact it has taken the top spot has surprised us slightly. It is a relatively simple conversion of a year old game, after all. 69 per cent of sales were on PlayStation 4, with the remaining 31 per cent …

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EA’s Madden Super Bowl Simulation

As most Americans will know, today is Super Bowl Sunday, a day when millions of Americans sit around a giant bowl of cereal and watch American Football on TV – or Hand Egg USA as they call it over there. Each year over the last decade EA has run a simulation with the latest Madden …

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Tomb Raider – the same old brand new view

It was only a few weeks ago that Crystal Dynamics revealed Tomb Raider did eventually go on to make profit, contradicting everything Square-Enix said about it not selling as well as forecast. Then again, they did have some frankly absurd expectations – it sold 3.4 million in its first month, when Square expected a ridiculous …

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Retro collections – invaluable portals back to misspent youth

Regular readers will know that we’ve always had a soft spot for retro collection, and so we’ve rounded up eight of the best. Inexpensive and often containing one or two games that would cost a small fortune if purchased for their original hardware, all of the below offer decent value for money as well as …

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Dragon Ball Z bounds into UK top ten

It would appear that Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z’s mediocre reviews haven’t harmed sales – the brawler has managed to enter the UK chart at a respectable #10. It’s at #7 in both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 charts, and #1 in the PS Vita chart. This just goes to show how popular …

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