You know an RPG series has hit the big league when minor characters start to appear in their own spin-offs. The Chocobos from Final Fantasy have departed the main series many times to star in the likes of Chocobo Racing and Chocobo’s Dungeon, while the blue blobs from Dragon Quest appeared in Rocket Slime on …
This free Kinect Fun Labs download has been funded by NASA themselves, who in turn are funded by the American government. So a big thanks goes out to all the honest and hard working Americans – your taxes have helped to pay for this. Good job! We do genuinely mean that without a hint of …
The last thing the world needs is another karting game. Admittedly the situation was even worse in the middle of the last decade, a low point marked by Crazy Frog Racer 2. Though Sebastian Vettel would presumably consider that the height of hilarity, if his post-race Crazy Frog impression at last year’s Spanish Grand Prix …
There is one thing you can bank on in the world of videogames – when a console starts getting long in the tooth, more budget games appear. They’re called budget games for a reason – not just because they’re cheap, but because they’re often made on a budget of very little. There are a few …
When we first caught wind that a game called Professor Pym and the Secret of Steam was arriving on the App Store our collective minds mustered up images of some sort of Professor Layton clone. Alas, this isn’t the case – it’s a vertical platformer similar to Doodle Jump and more recently Circus Atari. Don’t …
The Skylanders come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but most are easily identifiable. Thanks to Spyro’s involvement there are a fair few dragons, plus a few knights, elves, skeletons and dinosaurs thrown in for good measure. Then you have these chaps below, who are somewhat harder to describe, with faces only a mother …
There was a time that whenever Square-Enix strayed away from RPGs the results would more often than not be disastrous. Thankfully the days of the embarrassingly bad beat ’em up The Bouncer and shoddy racing sim Driving Emotion Type S are long behind us. The PSP-exclusive brawler Dissidia Final Fantasy proved that they didn’t have …
There weren’t a great deal of new releases out last week, and as such this week’s UK top 40 is devoid of all new entries. We were expecting Namco’s Inversion to enter in the bottom half of the top 40 but it hasn’t even managed that. According to Chart-Track it entered at a lowly #50. …
Tiny Wings was Apple’s 2011 game of the year in Europe, and deservedly so: it’s lovely. A delightful teaser trailer for Tiny Wings 2 surfaced last week, with a release date of 12th July 2012. Collective conclusions were leapt to, but we should have been looking more closely at developer Andreas Illiger’s Twitter stream: There …
Peter Molyneux said he’d learnt his lesson a couple of years ago. He even reiterated it just before 22 Cans announced their first project: Must remember not to give to much away about 22Cans next project, don’t get too excited, don’t over promise, ahhhhh it’s going to get messy — peter molyneux (@pmolyneux) June 4, …
We feel a bit sorry for gravity-bending shoot ’em up Inversion. Not only has it had a rough development period but Namco-Bandai thought that the best time to send review code out to the press was just before E3. In theory it was a smart idea – reviews would then appear on gaming sites the …
Following on from Kinect Fun Labs, Microsoft have just released another free app for Kinect users. This one isn’t a bunch of half-arsed ‘gadgets’ though – Kinect PlayFit tells you how many calories you’ve burned from your play sessions and awards you with achievements and avatar items. There are 20 achievements in total, with the …
It’s no surprise that Asura’s Wrath divided opinion when it was released earlier this year. It’s a game that can be broken down to being approximately 75 percent cut-scenes, 20 percent hacking and slashing, and 5 percent QTE events. For the most part you’re simply sat holding the joypad, waiting from a button prompt or …
Even with the The Amazing Spider-Man movie out now, Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes has managed to hold onto the top spot of the UK chart for a third week running. Spider-Man has to make do with #3, as London 2012 has risen up to #2. Spec Ops: The Line drops to #4 and …
What David Perry is doing running a cloud gaming company and not making an new Earthworm Jim game, I will never know. Actually, that’s a lie: no-one is interested in a new moderately humorous 2D platformer; and that cloud gaming malarkey paid off rather handsomely this week, when Sony bought his company, Gaikai, for $380 …
