It was almost as if EA had totally given up on Harry Potter license towards the end – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One was close to being an absolute abomination. Thankfully for Harry Potter fans the license is back in the hands of Warner Bros. As we’ve mentioned before, Warner Bros. appears …
When Ubisoft first announced Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth we joked that it couldn’t be any worse than the publisher’s own Kinect title PowerUp Heroes. Fortunately for Marvel fans, it isn’t. It is clearly aimed at younger gamers though. If you’re expecting something like Activison’s Amazing Spider-Man tie-in that gamers of all ages can enjoy, …
Sleeping Dogs. Now that’s a name ripe for pun making. Had this free-roaming oriental adventure – which originally started out as a new True Crime game for Activision – turned out to be on the smelly side we could have rolled out such one-liners as “this dog should have been put to sleep†and “every …
I’m sure every gamer has dreamed about owning an arcade machine at some point. To the infuriation of girlfriends and significant others across the world, a little known website known as eBay exists. The really worrying thing is that some arcade machines don’t really cost a great deal – we’ve managed to find working machines …
You’d be forgiven for mistaking this as a Kairosoft game. It’s a very easy error to make as not only does Bookstore Dream share a similar visual style to Game Dev Story and the like, but at £1.80 the pricing isn’t far off from a Kairosoft game either. This is a small game in more …
The PlayStation 3 “super slim” has been one of the internet’s worst kept secrets of recent times. It’s now official, and it’s just a week away from release. Sony claims that it’s 25 per cent smaller and 20 per cent lighter than the current model. There’s a sliding disk cover on the top, which appears …
Borderlands 2 has been creating a buzz ever since it was first announced. Reviews suggest the hype hasn’t been for nothing. UK magazine GamesMaster had the first review, where it bagged a resounding 95%. That was then followed up with a 9.0 from IGN. “Borderlands 2 preserves the best parts of the franchise while also …
Majesco’s Double Dragon NEON was met to positive reviews when it arrived on XBLA and PSN last week. We haven’t spent that much time with it yet, but that all signs point to it being a decent remake. One thing that really stands out though is the music. It’s some of the finest we’ve heard …
The App Store can be a sinful place at times. Take 3D Cartoon Land: Safari as an example. It doesn’t just pay homage to Nintendo’s Super Mario 3D Land – it’s a right bloody rip off. The list of similarities is as long as our arm. The hero is dressed in an identical manner to …
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 hasn’t been able to dislodge Sleeping Dogs from the top of this week’s UK chart, having to make to with #2 instead. The individual format chart show us that the PlayStation 3 version has proven to be the most popular. In fact, the Xbox 360 version was outsold by The Sims …
You should be familiar with our regular Street Viewtiful feature by now. We pick a possibly topical company, and use our secret spy camera (Google Street View) to have a peak at their offices. This month we’ve picked the Bath-based Future plc, who lately made the decision to end the rather spiffing Nintendo Gamer magazine. …
The headline for this article may sound like a rhetorical question, but it actually isn’t. Ubisoft has revealed that the price of converting an already existing game to Wii U is around 1m Euro. That’s a little over $1.2 million, and around £800k in real money. Considering that some Xbox Live Arcade and PSN games …
If it wasn’t for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and NHL 13 this week would be an interesting one for new releases, to put it politely. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is a game that has been a long time coming – the original released alongside the PlayStation 2 back in the space year 2000. Eurogamer gave …
There was a bit of apprehension in the air before writing this list. Our line of thought was that by writing about undesirable games this article itself would become one that people would choose to avoid reading. If you’re reading this then thankfully that isn’t the case. Presenting eight games that are so undesirable, you …
If you’re anything like us, then you’ll have suspected that the claw games – or UFO catchers, as they’re known in Japan – are rigged. It may even be common knowledge to some that they’re designed to not grip the goods inside properly every time. It’s not such common knowledge, however, that the user manuals …
