Pac-Man’s ability to sprout limbs seemingly at will has always disturbed us. For every Pac-Man platformer that has been released over the years, there’s a Pac-Man game where the yellow fellow is forced to devolve and roll around inside mazes like a primitive beast. This CGI cartoon tie-in sees Pac-Man in his arguably most evolved …
The first month of the year is always a quiet one for new releases, but there is usually at least one big name game out. Last year we had DmC – a game which many seemingly forgot about when compiling their GOTY lists – and also the budget priced Anarchy Reigns. Only two games, yes, …
The sales may currently be on, and many shiny new consoles sit underneath people’s TVs, but the UK chart is largely unchanged from last week. The top 4 are identical, in fact – FIFA 14 on top for a second week followed by Call of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed IV and Battlefield 4. At #5 …
…FIFA 14. We guess the image above was kind of a giveaway. It’s EA’s first FIFA to become Christmas number one since FIFA 09, and the publisher’s 14th Crimbo numero uno since the chart began 28 years ago. Call of Duty: Ghosts is at #2 – Chart-Track claims that FIFA outsold it by a remarkable …
Prior to the release of The Walking Dead we weren’t sold on the idea of episodic gaming. The thought of being drip-fed a story over several months seemed alien, but from as early on as the second episode Telltale managed to twist our arm. Each episode was more ambitious than the last, and as each …
Three releases are arriving at retail just in time for Christmas, but they aren’t exactly ones we can elaborate on. To wit – the 3DS version of the manky Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon, Zumba Kids on Wii and a ridiculously priced re-release of Red Faction Guerrilla via new license holder Nordic Games. If we …
You may be relieved to hear that we believe chances of Activision eventually releasing this kart racer on consoles are pretty slim. At least not as a full price retail release, anyway. This is a racer so heavily structured around microtransactions that if you were to remove them the entire thing would fall to pieces, …
Usually our annual lookback at the worst console games of the year is in conjunction with Metacritic. As in, we use the site as a source. But with Metacritic’s worst rated games of the year mostly consisting of PC and iOS games we’ve never even heard of, it doesn’t seem particularly right to go chopping …
Call of Duty: Ghosts is the UK’s number one for the third week running and the fifth time since launch. It was very nearly toppled by FIFA 14 however, with just 600 copies between the two. A price drop to £22.49 at GAME has seemingly helped LEGO Marvel Super Heroes rise up from #6 to …
News of a movie starring both Batman and Superman may currently be shaking up the world of cinema, but videogames featuring DC’s most renowned duo are a common occurrence. If we take DC Universe on PS4 and the belated Wii U conversion of LEGO Batman 2 into account there have been no less than three …
Praise be for digital downloads – if it wasn’t for the likes of Peggle 2 and Doki-Doki Universe we’d only have two retail release to talk about this week. Those two heading to retailers? Wii Fit U and the belated Wii U version of Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know. We reviewed …
Over the past few months alone we’ve seen the release of two new consoles, revamps of both the PS Vita and 3DS, plus some much needed big-name titles for the Wii U. That’s before we’ve even taken into account the release of GTA V, a game proclaimed to be not just the best game of …
Instant gratification forms the core of the first NFS from Ghost Games. The opening tutorial is less about learning the ropes and more about showing off the perks of playing as either a cop or racer. Cops get a long list of high-tech toys intended for pursuits, while racers have their own assortment of gizmos …
PlayStation 3-exclusive Gran Turismo 6 has unsurprisingly made the UK top 10, but at #8 in the chart that has to be a far lower placing than Sony was hoping. Sales were down five times that of GT5’s launch figures, which can likely be attributed to the PlayStation 4 currently flying off shelves. Nintendo can’t …
Kristian Fosh aims to continue the current point ‘n’ click adventure revival with Jason The Greek: The Ladies of Lemnos, a colourful and light-hearted caper inspired by Monkey Island, Discworld and other adventure games of yore. There’s also an influence behind it that you may not expect – Star Trek. Kristian is no stranger to …
