The beginning of 2013 is looking incredibly jam packed with Crysis 3, Dead Space 3, Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Aliens: Colonial Marines and X-Com due out. Now we can add Sega’s Anarchy Reigns to that list too. After putting the Western release on hold, Sega have confirmed that it’s due out Q1 2013. Believe it …
If there’s one thing developers Grasshopper Manufacture are good at, it’s excellent character design. No More Heroes gave us Travis Touchdown, a fearless assassin that most gamers could still relate to despite being something of an anti-hero. Shadows of The Damned then gave us Garcia ‘Fucking’ Hotspur and his slightly-camp floating skeletal pal Johnson. Garcia …
Despite being released on a variety of formats (Amiga, ST, C64, Mega Drive, Lynx and NES to be precise) Toki: Going Ape Spit isn’t a particularly well remembered platformer. And that’s even bearing in mind that it was re-released on iPhone back in 2009. Hopefully the upcoming remake will jog a few people’s memories. Toki …
Two out of the three games released last week have managed to enter the UK top 40. It’s the rather good Heroes of Ruin on 3DS that misses out, having to make do with #5 in the 3DS chart. Riding high though are both Lollipop Chainsaw – arriving at #4, much higher than possibly anybody …
The web made a step towards being a whole lot bigger yesterday, when ICANN revealed the full list of potential new generic top-level domains – because .com is terribly 1985. Sony have gone for .playstation, .xperia and .sony. Microsoft are after a handful, including .microsoft, .xbox and .live – giving them the option of both …
There aren’t many games out this week, but those that are making an appearance are worth considering. We were curious as to why Lollipop Chainsaw had been given a £29.99 price tag. Now that the first few reviews have appeared online we know why it’s not quite full price – it’s rather on the short …
If anybody is saddened by the fact the ten games below were never released, then you probably need to take a good long look at yourself. We’re mildly confident that they’re the best of the worst. Jamster All-Stars – PlayStation 2 After the undeserved success of the two Crazy Frog Racing games the publisher started …
With Euro 2012 upon us now seems a fine time to talk footballing platformers. There were a few of these about in the mid ‘90s – you could even say they were a minor fad. A lack of information available makes it hard to say which was first – Soccer Kid or Marko’s Magic Football. …
It would seem plenty of gamers have been spending the weekend playing Game of Thrones while sitting on their gamer thrones – it’s this week’s highest new entry, arriving at #6. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Solider is #1 for the third week running. The only other two games to stay at #1 for three …
By now, it’s no secret what Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo wanted to say at E3. In some cases it was never a secret, even if it was supposed to be. But what about how they said it? What can we glean from the the words they used? Unfortunately – and surprisingly – no-one on the …
Peter Molyneux has been talking about his upcoming PC/mobile game Curiosity – the first from new studio 22Cans – and as the name suggest, it’s a curious one. It’s not a ‘proper’ game as such, more of an experiment to explore the psychology of social media users. The idea is to chisel away at a …
You’d think publishers would be too busy showing off new software at E3 to release titles people can go out and buy right now. This isn’t the case, however – there are a few new games out this week. Game of Thrones is a hard one to recommend to anybody apart from fans of the …
Brilliantly timed to coincide with E3, Disney has released a new trailer for their winter movie Wreck-It Ralph. As you’d expect from a movie which has been described as a gaming version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, cameos of videogame characters are in abundance. The trailer shows Ralph – a videogame villain who wants to …
One of the more amusing things from Microsoft to be spotted at E3 was this Halo-influenced bar menu: Apparently the food menu consisted of just two types of onion ring – battered or bread-crumbed.
