Dragon’s Dogma

Creating the illusion that you’re playing with a human player rather than an AI controlled character is quite the task, but one that Capcom has managed to pull off here spectacularly. The AI of your three fellow adventurers is in fact good enough to instantly forgive that there’s no ‘proper’ multi-player. Instead, in this RPG …

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E3: All aboard the fun bus to Nintendo Land

Nintendo’s conference left fans a little perplexed. No less than 23 games were on show, which is a figure none too shabby, but most had already been announced while the rest felt distinctly casual. At least things got off on the right foot with a demonstration of Pikmin 3 on Wii U. The visuals are …

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E3: Sony shows Beyond, God of War, The Last of Us and a book about magic

Sony’s E3 2012 press conference came and went, much as expected, and a little light on dramatic unveilings. Whilst the big hitters such as The Last of Us and God of War: Ascension oozed quality, the biggest surprise of the night was arguably Wonderbook, an augmented reality… book. In its favour, the first Wonderbook title, …

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Resistance: Burning Skies fails to set top 10 ablaze

We didn’t expect the UK charts to be released today with it being a bank holiday and all. We certainly aren’t complaining though – we wouldn’t want it to get swamped under tomorrow’s E3 news. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Solider remains #1 for a second week running, followed by Max Payne 3, FIFA 12, …

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Improbable E3 predictions

E3 is now go. Are you excited? We are excited. Let’s speculate, with some very improbable predictions, shall we? Ubisoft hands out free rabbits in order to promote 3DS title Rabbids Rumble. By the end of the week the price of carrots inflates to an all-time high. Out of force of habit, 2K Games puts …

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Nintendo’s pre-E3 news – Wii U Pro Controller, Miiverse and more

Nintendo’s decision to release a special pre-E3 edition of their news show Nintendo Direct has a slight knee-jerk feel to it. Most have assumed it’s because EA and Ubisoft are planning to show their Wii U titles at E3 on Monday, which is something they wouldn’t be able to do without showing off the new …

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GameGadget – a quick catch up

We had a brief look at the GameGadget – the self-proclaimed “iPod for retro games” – back in January, a couple of months before launch. Since then it’s certainly been eventful, so it’s time for a catch up. The hardware’s the easy part It launched pretty much on time, on 4th April 2012. What’s more, …

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Celebrate The Queen’s Jubilee shooting aliens

When it was announced that Nihilistic were working on Resistance: Burning Skies we were sceptical. This is the studio that gave us the dire Marvel Nemises: Rise of the Imperfects and the mediocre PlayStation Move Heroes, after all. That scepticism appears to have been well placed – reviews of this PS Vita-exclusive haven’t been great, …

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Let’s Eat Sweets!

How do you choose a game from the baffling variety on offer on the App Store? When it’s only 69p at stake, the name is as good a reason as any to splash the pennies. Let’s Eat Sweets! – that’s Temporal Games’ exclamation mark, but I like it – definitely falls into the ‘good name, …

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Sonic’s Edusoft

Released: Unreleased Format: Sega Master System Frequent Games Asylum readers may be questioning why we’ve picked a Sonic game twice in a row for our monthly retro gaming feature. Although it’s true that we do have a soft spot for the ‘hog, the story behind the unreleased Sonic’s Edusoft (sometimes referred to as Sonic Edusoft) …

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Ubisoft’s ghosts send Max Payne packing

After just one week Max Payne 3 has fallen from the top spot in the chart. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Solider: Future Solider is the new #1, pushing Max Payne 3 down to #2. We assume that people had an easier time finding a copy of Capcom’s spiffing RPG Dragon’s Dogma than we did, as …

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Mario Kart keychain provides mirth, merriment

We recently stumbled upon an unopened Mario Kart keyring from 1994. The reverse of the packaging raised a grin – not only is there a typo (“Koopa Troopers”) but Toad is referred to as Little Toadie: We bet the only time Toad goes by that name is when Mario wants to sweet talk him into …

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Wow HD – putting the ‘wow’ in wowsers

Wow HD isn’t a website I frequently visit, but when they sent an e-mail reporting a massive 20% off all games this weekend the bargain hunter inside me couldn’t resist a look. I have been informed in the past that the Wow HD (formally CD Wow) is a little shady with reports of people receiving …

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Fun Labs – Men in Bucharest

This month’s Street Viewtiful takes us all the way to Bucharest in Romania, the home of development studio Fun Labs. They’re the guys behind movie tie-in Men in Black: Alien Crisis – which is out this week – and the copious amount of Cabela hunting games. For years we’ve assumed that they’ve based in the …

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