FIFA 13 sits on top of the UK chart for a fourth week running this week, fending off three new arrivals. Skylanders Giants enters at a very respectable #2. Just to show how much momentum the franchise has gained, the original Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure only entered the chart at #16 exactly a year ago. DOOM …
The fact that Borderlands 2 has a shotgun called ‘Customer Focused Thinking’ automatically gives the array of arsenal present an edge over that of the competition, let alone taking into consideration that there are a gazillion different weapons to choose from. Not all vary cosmetically – usually it’s just the statistics that change from one …
A lot of parents are going to be pestered for a temporary raise in pocket money this week – Skylanders Giants is out on Wii, 3DS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The new giant figures, like Eye-Brawl on the right there, cost £14.99, while in addition to a new range of smaller figures there are …
Back in March we dug out some older Xbox 360 games to see if anybody was still playing them online. The results were surprising – we found nobody playing Turok, Shaun White Skateboarding or Perfect Dark Zero but found people still playing Forza 2, Halo Wars and Sega’s Japan-only Cyber Troopers: Virtual-On Force. The article …
The Japanese developers of this Xbox 360 online battler have quite the history. As well as working on 2009’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up for Wii and PlayStation 2, they also had a helping hand on the game that inspired it – Super Smash Bros. Brawl. If this doesn’t make you curious about Happy …
When the late Michael Jackson sung “It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white,†he may as well have been talking about Pokemon Black and White 2. Pokemon Black 2 entered the UK chart at #3 while Pokemon White 2 arrived at #5, but even if their sales were combined they wouldn’t have beaten fellow …
Last month we used our all seeing eye (AKA Google Street View) to have a peak at Future Publishing’s offices. It only seems fair that this month we take a look at the Bournemouth-based Imagine Publishing. Imagine Publishing are responsible for Retro Gamer, X360 and Play – the longest running PlayStation magazine out there. They …
The subtitle for episode four of Telltale’s adventure series refers to the fact that the survivors have finally arrived in the city of Savannah, only to be greeted by more zombies than they could have ever imagined. There really is one around every corner, making this the most action-heavy instalment yet. Don’t expect to be …
It’s crazy to think that there was once doubt about whether Borderlands 2 would happen. The original entered the UK chart at #7 and proved to be a slow and steady seller, very much a game that sold on word of mouth alone. A strong following and a bigger advertising spree helped Borderlands 2 to …
Christ on a moped – this week is rammed with new releases, of which at least six are of tip-top quality. Won’t somebody think of our bank balances? Firstly – new IP! Launching a new game series is a tricky task that requires a lot of shrewd marketing and heavy advertising. Thankfully due to the …
The best games out there are always the ones designed to capture our imaginations. They suck us in with their creativity, and often prove to be so rich with brilliant ideas that those who play them can’t resist singing their praises to other gamers. In 1997 Sonic Team’s NiGHTS into Dreams blew the minds of …
A Tuesday release for Resident Evil 6 has helped Capcom’s survival horror shooter become the 4th biggest release of 2012. It hasn’t been able to knock FIFA 13 off the top spot of the chart though, settling for #2, and it hasn’t beaten Resident Evil 5’s launch week sales either. Borderlands 2 moves down from …
Mobile developers like to make life hard for themselves, it would seem: platformers are thriving on mobiles, yet touch screens don’t have the delicious precision of physical buttons that the genre demands. Rayman Jungle Run notably rose to the challenge recently, but here are a couple of other recent examples that tickled my platforming fancy. …
The idea of Supermagical is neat: whack a story and some light RPG elements onto the classic bubble-popping game. It looks and sounds fantastic. What a shame, then, that the game goes out of its way to make playing it a real bloody chore. Turning the classic mechanic on its side makes absolutely no difference, …
While browsing the demo section on Xbox Live the other night I came across Kung Fu High Impact. The demo was released in November 2011, so I assumed that it had been canned prior to release as it’s a game I’ve never seen for sale. A quick look on Google reveals that isn’t the case …
