It pleases us greatly to learn that sticker albums are still around in this day and age of handheld consoles and mobile phones that do everything. Simply owning a sticker album allowed instant social standing in the playground; long time rivalries could put aside in favour of bagging a few stickers that you and your …
Stock shortages can’t be good news for Payday 2’s launch week sales, but it still manages to take the top spot of the UK chart regardless. For those not aware, the Xbox 360 version has seemingly sold out everywhere online and is currently selling for £50+ on eBay due to 505 Games underestimating demand. With …
North America is still waiting for the boxed release of New Super Luigi U – we in Europe got it last month. Still, at least they’ve got this Luigi branded train to make up for it. It celebrates the curiously late launch of the game later this month, and the wider Year of Luigi. That …
Had 505 Games’ Payday 2 launched next week it would have arrived just in time for many people’s actual payday. Next week, however, is looking incredibly busy considering it’s summer, and so the co-op shooter gets this week pretty much to itself. Sensible planning on the publisher’s behalf in spite of a game’s title – …
Mining for riches has to be one of the humblest professions known to man. Humble, yet dangerous. Chances of cave-ins, gas leaks, landslides and choking on lumps of gristle in mass-produced Cornish pasties are stacked incredibly high. Logic dictates that any job with a degree of danger has to be ideal for a videogame, although …
With Capcom’s DuckTales Remastered and Sega’s Castle of Illusion remake leaping onto the download services soon, a classic Disney platformer revival is almost upon us. We could celebrate with a look at some of best Disney games from the ‘80s and ‘90s, but we think it’s safe to say that your average gamer knows full …
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is the UK’s number one for the third week running. The last game from Microsoft to hold the top spot for three consecutive weeks, believe it or not, was Forza 2 back in 2007. With the Premiership nearly upon us FIFA 13 rises back to #2. Then it’s The Smurfs 2 …
It’s a shame that Ride to Hell developers Eutechnyx aren’t based in Hull, as it would have given us a slightly more amusingly headline for this month’s Google Street View feature. Instead we’re off to Gateshead, south of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Eutechnyx are best known for creating various budget-priced racing games – along with the …
This year’s Summer of Arcade promotion begins with the fairytale adventure of Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons, developed by Starbreeze Studios of The Darkness and early Xbox eye-popper Enclave fame. “This is one journey you will never forget†claims Microsoft, and review scores suggest that they aren’t wrong. The first few reviews appeared …
If you’ve worked in an office over the last decade or so, you’ve probably been hit at some point by the deluge of Excel quizzes. They were fun! Sort of. Little screen caps from films or scraps of sweet wrapper or whatever, and you have to guess what they are. The whole office gets involved …
Whereas most RPGs take a few hours to get going, Dream Team Bros. draws you in within mere minutes. As superficial as it may sound, the way it looks is perhaps initially the biggest draw. Releasing a sprite-heavy Mario game after the delightful Super Mario 3D Land may seem like a step backwards, but that …
Last week we speculated that The Smurfs 2 may rise up the chart once the movie had been released. Well, we weren’t wrong there – it has shot up all the way to #5 in the UK top 40. It’s #1 in both the Wii and DS charts, at an absurdly high #5 the Xbox …
We hope that in years to come somebody gets the scoop on how Ride to Hell came to be. No developer intentionally sets out to make a bad game, after all. It was first announced in 2008 as an open-world affair, with the first trailer reporting a 2009 release. That proposed release date came and …
Just two games are arriving at retail this week, neither of which can be classed as high profile. Those two are the terrible on-rails shooter Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear – which we handed a miserable 2/10 last week – and the hidden object game Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst on 3DS. Things fare a little better …
Although Mario Sunshine will always be the undisputed king of all things sun-drenched, Pikmin 3 has more of a summery feel to it than anticipated. It has cool and inviting pools of water, a new tropical region to explore packed full of exotic fruits to find, and plenty of pesky flying insects to swat. Rarely …
