Some know him as that brown thing who’s on T-shirts in the dark corners of HMV that nobody visits. Others know him as Domo-kun, the official mascot of Japan’s NHK television station. We discovered this for ourselves first-hand when visiting NHK in Tokyo around five years ago. What were we doing there? Obviously not becoming …
Late last year when we weren’t looking, Microsoft added a free to download karaoke app onto Xbox Live dully titled Karaoke. If this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction to Sony making Singstar free on PSN, then we’d be very surprised. Still, it’s always nice to see something extra added to Xbox Live, and even more so …
Our faith in the gaming industry has been restored slightly today. Namco’s PlayStation 3-exclusive RPG Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is the new UK number one. Last week’s #1 was Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which drops to #3. FIFA 13 remains at #2. At #4 it’s Far Cry 3 and …
Time for another of our regular jaunts around the gaming world via the medium of Google Street View. Nothing topical or clever this month: let’s just go and have a gander at Sumo Digital. After all, it’s official: everyone likes Sumo Digital. With various Sonic Racing and OutRun titles to their name, you would, wouldn’t …
It’s the end of the month and for some it’ll be the first payday of 2013. So, there are plenty of games out this week, right? Nope, just three. Luckily for those still paying off Christmas presents purchased with their credit cards, Hitman Trilogy HD and Omerta: City of Gangsters are both less-than-full-price releases. The …
There’s a lot to be said for novelty. This doesn’t sound like a terribly original concept for a mobile game: a cute giant cat roams the streets setting free animals held captive by evil scientists. But when it’s your streets, well, then you’ve got my interest. The level select screen is an OpenStreetMap of your …
Price drops are apparently the reason for the amount of shuffling going on in this week’s UK chart. Call of Duty: Black Ops II is back on top, dislodging DmC down to #4. FIFA 13 is at #2, Far Cry 3 at #4 and up from #10 to #5 is Assassin’s Creed III. LEGO Batman …
Owning a rare game is one thing; owning a sealed version of a rare game is quite another. But to own something that was never commercially available to the public? That’s taking collecting to the extreme. Plenty of things only available to industry insiders have been sold on eBay recently. A good example is this …
It’s not exactly a brilliant week for new games. That’s as far as retail releases are concerned at least – there are just two titles out, both of which were released in the US a few months ago. These are Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth on Wii U, which mysteriously slipped from the launch line-up, …
Rumour has it that when the developers of the Cablea’s Dangerous Hunts series played Far Cry 3 for the first time, they cried themselves to sleep. We can exclusively confirm that this rumour is untrue, because we just made it up. What is true though is that Far Cry 3 handles hunting brilliantly, easily making …
There’s a Hong Kong-based online retailer where, hidden away from the official console bundles and realms of third party peripherals, there’s a peculiar section titled “Other videogame consolesâ€. Here you’ll find a variety of dubious looking handhelds of all shapes and sizes, pre-loaded with hacks of NES games and more. We don’t condone piracy here …
Dante’s latest has shot to the top of the UK chart, becoming Capcom’s first UK #1 since Resident Evil 5 in 2009. However, all signs point to DmC not having to shift all that many copies to bag the top spot – it has only sold just over a third of what Devil May Cry …
Sonic, Mario and Mortal Kombat – if there was a franchise guaranteed to sell magazines back in the ‘90s, it was one of those. After appearing in arcades in 1992, Mortal Kombat had become a phenomenon, fuelled by the controversy caused in its wake. Today, Mortal Kombat looks incredibly tame. Comical, even. Back in 1992, …
Last week gave us hack and slashers Anarchy Reigns and Ninja Gaiden: Razor’s Edge, and this week we’re on the receiving end of another – DmC: Devil May Cry. As fans of the genre, we couldn’t have asked for 2013 to have got off to a better start. Reviews of the franchise reboot appeared online …
Not only does Microsoft have a list of the best selling XBLA games of all time on Xbox.com, but they also keep it updated daily. We doubt it changes dramatically on a day to day basis, but it’s a touch that we didn’t expect to see. Speaking of unexpected things, the official top 50 best …
