It’s Adventure Time!

Our collector’s edition of Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!! arrived in the post today (just two days after the US release, thank you very much Videogames Plus) so we thought we’d share a couple of snaps. It’s also available on 3DS but due to the system’s stupid regional lock-out we’ve …

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Bad game bad; bad game good

Those who follow us on Twitter – to whom we are eternally grateful – will know that I had a bit of trouble procuring a copy of Halo 4. My copy was dispatched the weekend before its Tuesday launch but it didn’t arrive on our doorstep until Thursday. With a day off work to play …

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Hitman: The Brave and Bald

Hitman: Absolution has been a long time coming, so this week’s Tuesday release is no doubt a godsend for those who have been looking forward to it. Worth the wait? Yes… well, maybe. Like a lot of this winter’s big releases, reviews have been mixed. So far scores include 5/10 from Videogamer, 7s from both …

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Midway Arcade Origins – review

If we were in charge of compiling a collection of Midway’s best arcade games, we would have picked the cream of the crop from the Midway Arcade Treasures series and included as many extras we could get our hands on. Midway Arcade Treasures 2 was one of our favourite retro collections of the PlayStation 2 …

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Top of the Blops 2

It feels absolutely pointless to report that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is #1 in the UK chart this week, because of course it bloody is. Since last Tuesday it has become the biggest launch of 2012 and the fourth biggest of all time, with 60 percent of copies sold on Xbox 360 and …

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Everyone’s talking about Ty – or not

On mobiles just as any other platform, a very few games generate blanket coverage in the specialist press, seep into the mainstream media, and become so ubiquitous that they’re virtually sat in the corner of your bedroom winking at you. Certainly that’s been the case recently. Boomerang Blast I refer, of course, to the iOS …

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Kinect buyer’s guide

Thinking of buying a Kinect to keep the kids quiet this Christmas? You’ve picked a good time to make a purchase – you should be able to find one for under £80 new, and significantly less second hand, with games starting at literally pocket money prices. You should feel sorry for our downstairs neighbour – …

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Halo 4 – review

If Halo 4 were food, it would be tomato soup – something you’ve had loads of times before yet it’s still comforting. The first few levels in particular have a slightly overbearing sense of familiarity, thanks to an opening not unlike the one found in the original Halo. Make no mistake – 343 Industries can …

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Two more UK magazines get the chop

The videogame magazine market is but a mere shadow of its former self. It’s soon to become even smaller – Future has announced plans to end both PSM3 and Xbox World. The final issues for both will go on sale Wednesday December 12th, reports CVG. “We intend and fully expect there to be no redundancies …

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Black for more

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best selling Call of Duty so far, beating even Modern Warfare 3, so it makes sense that Activision has chosen to give it a sequel. In fact, all of the Call of Duty games have sold so astonishingly well that it would make sense to make sequels to …

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Mighty Master Chief

Due to a certain game being released tomorrow, it’s looking like Halo 4 will only get one week at #1. That week is this week – Halo 4 sits on top of the UK chart, proudly selling more copies than Assassin’s Creed III managed at launch. However, it hasn’t sold as well as either Halo …

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SEGA Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl

800 Microsoft Points – or £7.99, if you prefer – may seem quite steep for a collection containing two crusty old Mega Drive games, but there is a reason of sorts behind this. Although Sega published the ToeJam & Earl games back in the early ‘90s, they don’t own the rights to the characters – …

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What’s inside Pete’s cube?

So Peter Molyneux’s “social experiment” Curiosity – what’s inside the cube has been out for two days now, and at the time of writing more than 396,000 people have tapped away at the giant cube, destroying more than 163 million cubelets. The big question remains – what is inside the cube? We’d like to offer …

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Halo goes fourth

What are the scores on the doors for Halo 4? A curious mixture is the answer. The highest score we’ve seen is a lofty 9.8 from IGN, followed by 97% from GamesMaster magazine. At the opposite end of the scale sits EGM’s 7.0 review, who panned the shooter for being too similar to the previous …

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Gaming’s fittest birds

We’ve spotted a worrying trend recently on a few less established websites – articles based ‘gaming’s sexist women’ and the like. We’ve decided to put a spin on our very own round-up though, so here’s our top six fittest birds… of the avian variety. Oh, it’s not what you were expecting? That’s a pity. 6. …

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