It was Toy Fair 2014 at London’s Kensington Olympia this week. Video games didn’t exactly feature prominently, but Sonic was there. You can see him above, loitering in the background of a photo of event manager Simon Pilling. Sega weren’t exhibiting, so it’s hard to say exactly what Sonic was up to. Apart from loitering. …
Say hello to the first Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PS Vita retail release of the year – Dragon Ball Z – Battle of Z. Yeah, it has been a slow month. Whereas the majority of Dragon Ball Z games have taken the form of one-on-one brawlers in the past, this one offers online battle …
Released on PlayStation 2 back in 2005, SEGA Classics Collection is a small part of gaming history. Not so much in terms of the collection’s content, but rather a display of Sony’s seldom seen authority. Over in Japan the games in the eight-strong compilation were released individually as part of the SEGA Ages 2500 series. …
Rather than cram Nintendo’s eShop offerings in with the rest of the week’s new releases – like we have been doing for quite some time – we’ve decided to give Nintendo’s download schedule a regular weekly overview. The main reason for this is that we felt as if we were skimming over a lot of …
Similar to earlier this month, the majority of the UK’s top 10 remains the same as last week. That means FIFA 14 is still on top, followed by Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed IV. At #5 it’s LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and then at #6 – up two places – it’s …
The Master System and Game Gear both lead a long life in Europe, peacefully co-existing alongside the Mega Drive for several years. If we include the 32X, Mega CD, and Pico, SEGA did at one point circa 1995 have seven consoles on the market. And yes, that’s as crazy as it sounds. Something had to …
There are not one but two titles featuring Nintendo’s plumbing duo out this week, but there’s no need to go rolling your eyes – they couldn’t be any more different from one another. Like NES Remix, the Wii U’s Dr. Luigi has seemingly been knocked up on a tight schedule to fill a void on …
It’s questionable if the Kinect is going to play as big a part in the Xbox One’s future as Microsoft once believed. Indeed, by all accounts the original Kinect is dead – Microsoft even chose not to feature the usual ‘Better with Kinect’ branding on the recent Zoo Tycoon. That didn’t stop us from dusting …
Talk about an easy act to follow – the last RoboCop game was from the notorious Superman 64 developers Titus Interactive way back in 2003. The only thing you need to know about that game was that it was their last before going bankrupt. Even if this mobile movie tie-in was a clone of Space …
A slight shuffle has taken place in the UK chart this week, with the emphasis there on the word ‘slight’. FIFA 14 is still on top – which makes it seven weeks, although not consecutively – and is followed by Call of Duty: Ghosts while Battlefield 4 and Assassin’s Creed IV switch places from last …
Following on from last week’s review of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures and this week’s lookback at Pac-Attack, it seems fit to focus this month’s eBay round-up on Pac-Man. Unsurprisingly, a Pac-Man arcade cabinet is the highest valued Pac-Man item to have sold on eBay recently. It’s not the original Pac-Man arcade game though, but …
Christmas has only just been shoved back into the loft, and so unsurprisingly there are very few new games up for perusal this week. Maybe for those with impending credit card bills that’s not an entirely a bad thing. Randomly generated survival romp Don’t Starve on PS4 is the biggest release, available free to PlayStation …
It has been a while since we last visited a developer via the magic of Google Street View, but Double Helix struck us as a decent contender. The California-based studio has been around since 2007, yet it was only when it was revealed that they were co-developing Killer Instinct that most gamers acknowledged their existence. …
Namco’s iconic yellow fellow has starred in countless games over the years, so it’s no surprise that some have fallen into obscurity. Arguably, none of these are more deserving of a lookback than 1993’s Pac-Attack, a neat little puzzler with more than a whiff of Tetris about it. Although the puzzler appears to have been …
Quite how we’re supposed to write something interesting about this week’s UK chart is a mystery – the top seven remain unchanged from last week. This means FIFA 14 is on top for a sixth week, although not consecutively, and is followed by Call of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed IV, Battlefield 4 and GTA V. …
