Will Wright’s original city building sim has been released on almost thirty different formats over the years, but today we’re going to take a look back at just one version in particular – the SNES version from 1991. This isn’t any old SimCity. It’s Nintendo’s rendition of SimCity. Part of the SNES launch line-up, alongside …
It’s always a good sign when a publisher sets a review embargo date well before a game is due out. Tomb Raider is perfect example of this – reviews surfaced online eight days prior to its Tuesday release. There are perhaps fewer 10/10s around than Square-Enix had hoped for, but reviews on the whole have …
Despite being only being four months old, Sega has slashed the prices of Virtua Fighter 2, Fighting Vipers and Sonic the Fighters on Xbox Live Arcade to 160 MSP each. The discounted prices are only available to gold members until 11th March. Sonic the Fighters isn’t a particularly good game due to being rather on …
Evolved Games are a publisher who are no longer around. When you look at their back catalogue it’s no surprise as to why – their biggest release was Terminator Salvation, which is often referred to as being one of this generation’s worst movie tie-in. Smash and crash racer Mayhem was the last title the publisher …
Well, we don’t think it’s possible for somebody to buy Metal Gear Rising expecting it to be another intense stealth experience. If the ‘Rising’ part of the title doesn’t suggest that this is a spin-off, then the fact that the back of the box proudly proclaims it to be a “new kind of Metal Gear …
The only tears at Crytek this week will be tears of joy – Crysis 3 is the UK’s number one for a second week running, even with sales down 43% from launch. FIFA 13 is at #2 while Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance drops to #3. Call of Duty: Black Ops II holds onto #4 and …
If you’re a wrestling fan, there’s a good chance you could be a thirteen year old boy. Coincidentally, THQ’s WWE SmackDown! series has been dominating the wrestling videogame scene for just over thirteen years. So THQ’s WWE games could be all you’ve ever known, virtual wrestling-wise, if you are indeed thirteen. “THQ almost managed to …
Freemium gaming has no shortage of critics. It’s understandable, given that such games have earned a reputation for nickle and diming their players. EA have taken the concept further than ever with Real Racing 3, their attempt at combining the freemium model with AAA production values. The result? Possibly the most depressing thing to happen …
Devil May Cry’s Bloody Palace DLC is the best type of DLC – a download designed to add little bit of extra life to a game for the asking price of precisely nothing. There’s no intro or plot to speak of – after selecting Bloody Palace from the main menu, Dante simply finds himself in …
Last week Crysis 3 and Metal Gear Rising went head-to-head, resulting in a bloody battle for the top position in the UK chart. Konami’s hack and slasher missed out on the top spot by 5,500 copies, having to make do with #2. Had it been released this week, a week that sees very little of …
Since bagging what remained of Midway in 2009, Warner Bros. hasn’t done a great deal with Midway’s assets. They published the Mortal Kombat game NetherRealm were working on at the time, there have been a couple of half-baked retro collections – one for consoles, and one for iOS – and a Spy Hunter game was …
In a time when review scores matter more than ever, most publishers and developers are putting some long overdue attention into their licensed games. A few duffers do still slip out though, in hope that people will buy them based on name alone. We’ve put our thinking caps on and tried to formulate remedies to …
A thread of darkness is part of the appeal – and indeed function – of folklore and fairy tales. Simogo’s Year Walk – based on the Swedish tradition of year walking, a ‘vision quest’ meant to offer a glimpse of the future – puts the darkness firmly front and centre. It’s a puzzle-adventure, where the …
For the first time in ages, this week’s UK chart has two new entries in the top two positions. Those two are Crysis 3 – which is the new number one – and Metal Gear Rising: Revengence. Chart-Track reports that there’s a gap of 5,500 copies between them. Although EA’s shooter and Konami’s hack and …
We almost didn’t notice, but it turns out the PS Vita is one year old this weekend. Being the modest little handheld that it is, we thought we’d bake it a cake and surprise it with the birthday bumps! When the PS Vita was first announced in January 2011 we were reasonably impressed with it, …
