That image – beautiful, but also crushingly sad – was the last offering from @wipEout2048 on Wednesday, following the news that Sony are closing SCE Studio Liverpool – or Psygnosis, if you prefer. Which I do. Look back at the original PlayStation launch titles. No, really, look: Ridge Racer Battle Arena Toshinden Jumping Flash! Rapid …
Last week saw two big names releases despite it being the typically quiet summer period. So that’s our lot now, right? Nope – there are another two big releases out this week too. What on Earth is going on? Darksiders II was released on Tuesday to tie-in with the US release, although we did see …
Yet another war game? Perhaps on first inspection. Once the joypad is firmly in your hand though, it doesn’t take much more than a few minutes to realise that Spec Ops does a lot of things differently from other shooters. Different in a good way, of course. It’s a third-person shooter and just like Gears …
For the obvious reason, the price of Spider-Man games has shot up in the past month or so. Even the rushed out Spider-Man 3 movie tie-in – in which some female NPCs had male voices and vice versa – is selling for more than a tenner on Amazon. What’s really quite astonishing though is that …
The philosophy of a video game corporation nowadays is that if a game doesn’t prove to be popular, then all support and everything to do with it should be dropped like a hot potato, and attention focused elsewhere. This sort of thinking only started around ten years ago, when budgets for video games began to …
Take note publishers who aren’t either Nintendo or Square-Enix – gamers are quite happy to go out and buy new releases during the summer. Both Sleeping Dogs and New Super Mario Bros. 2 have performed well, taking the top and second spots of the UK chart respectively. Sleeping Dogs is in fact the sixth best …
All week I’ve been confronted by frightening, freakish visions on every street corner. That’s right, I’ve been in Edinburgh for the Fringe. Boom! (And, more relevantly, also playing a bit of augmented reality iPhone thing Ghostbusters Paranormal Blast.) It’s a neat set up: a Google Map of your immediate neighbourhood displays calls for you to …
News broke earlier today that EA are currently exploring the options of putting themselves up for sale. There’s more on that story here and here, but what would happen in the unlikely case that the company was to sell off their IP and shut up shop for good? Because publishers are a predictable bunch, we’re …
After a dull few weeks with very little being released we finally have some exciting stuff upon us. If Square-Enix’s Sleeping Dogs had turned about to be poor no doubt the creatively void journalists out there would be reeling out lines like “This dog should have been put to sleep†and “Every dog has its …
Released: 1994 Formats: PSone, Arcade If a developer released a racing game in this day and age with only one track, we’d either expect the rest to be available as free DLC or consider them to have a screw loose. Back in 1995 though this happened. After wowing gamers in the arcade, Namco’s Ridge Racer …
None of the characters below are starring in the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars, but by our reckoning Sony still has the rights (or could easily access the rights) to at least five of them. Whether gamers would want to play as a cartoon mouse or a medieval jester over Nathan Drake or Cole MacGrath is another …
The UK is seemingly caught in a time-warp – this week’s UK chart is pretty much identical to that of last week. This means London 2012: The Official Video Game is #1 for the third week running. That’s followed by LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, …
The rate that new games appear on the Xbox Indie service is overwhelming – there’s no way we’d be able to play through them all to sort the wheat from the chaff. We have Eurogamer to thank for bringing this 80 MSP shooter to our attention via their review, and now we’re going to wax …
If video games were an Olympic sport – and let’s be clear, they aren’t – then button bashing would have to be the blue ribbon event. After all, it’s well established as the equivalent of sprinting 100m. Sadly, the noble sport of button bashing is dying. Nintendo dealt the first serious blow with Wii Sports, …
Thank goodness for downloadable games. If it wasn’t for the ability to buy new games from the comfort of your sofa or toilet, then this week’s new release round-up would make for very dull reading. The belated PC version of The Amazing Spider-Man is this week’s only retail release. Here’s a fun fact: the PC …
