Pandora’s Tower is the last of Nintendo’s trio of Wii RPGs. That’s not to say that it’s the last big Wii release – there’s still Epic Mickey 2 to come, and perhaps E3 will reveal something – but it’s certainly one of the last significant releases. The Metro’s GameCentral claimed that the developer’s lack of …
Here’s a hypothetical question for you. What would Mass Effect 3 be like if EA never purchased Bioware and Microsoft carried on the publishing duties? Microsoft could have done with another big game in their line-up for last Christmas so perhaps we would have seen it sooner. Something we’re more certain on is that Microsoft …
It’s remarkable that Rayman Origins won the BAFTA for Artistic Achievement. Not because it isn’t a thing of beauty – it is, even on the distinctly standard definition Wii – but because of what it is. It’s a 2D platformer, with levels based around fire, ice, water, desert and so on. In the 16-bit heyday, …
Mediocre reviews haven’t harmed sales of Kinect Star Wars one bit – it’s the UK’s new number one, making it the first Kinect game to go straight to the top of the chart. It’s also the first Star Wars game to enter at #1 since 2008’s Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. You have to admit …
Capcom’s Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law from 2007 was the unlikeliest of things – a cartoon tie-in that wasn’t a total waste of everybody’s time. It’s quite amazing really considering that Harvey Birdman on first inspection isn’t ideal fodder for a videogame. He may appear to be a superhero, but under that bright exterior he’s …
We’re running this week’s new release round-up a little earlier than usual because this week’s biggest games are already out. We can understand why Microsoft wanted to give Kinect Star Wars a simultaneous US and European release seeing as it’s the first big Kinect game since… well, in a very long time. Quite why Capcom …
Sega have taken AGES to get their Game Gear games onto the 3DS Virtual Console. A quick browse of the options however is all it takes to realise that they’ve been hard at work making the emulation as authentic as possible. There’s a choice of screen sizes ranging from full screen to pixel perfect with …
Bungie has been keeping tally of the amount of Halo games played online since September 2004 – two months before the release of Halo 2. With the franchise now in the hands of Microsoft’s 343 Industries, Bungie’s stat tracking has come to an end. 31st March was their final update and as a special farewell …
Ridge Racer reboot Ridge Racer: Unbounded hasn’t got off to the best of starts in this week’s UK top 40 – it makes its chart appearance at #21. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 performed the best out of last week’s other new releases, swinging in at #3. The top three titles are now all EA …
Interesting tales at both ends of the App Store this week. Angry Birds Space achieved 10 million downloads in three days, a story so important that literally every site on the internet reported it. At the other extreme, one-man developer Mr Qwak had his well-received iOS game Retro Racing removed from the App Store for …
There’s a slight retro theme running through this week’s new releases – a new Silent Hill along with the anticipated HD collection, a Ridge Racer revamp, this year’s Tiger Woods and a load of Capcom classics on one handy disk. The emphasis is obviously on the word ‘slight’ there. Silent Hill HD Collection angered fans …
We don’t know why journalists like to use the phrase “the rumour mill is spinning again†so much or even what a “rumour mill” is exactly, but we do know where rumours come from. Well, sort of. Let us start with perhaps the greatest rumour ever weaved – Nintendo’s “megaton†announcement. Back in 2002 Nintendo …
We’ve nothing against a series being made more casual – nobody likes frustrating difficulty levels, after all. However, in attempt to make Ninja Gaiden 3 appeal to a larger audience the developers have removed just about everything that made Tomonobu Itagaki’s previous Ninja Gaiden games so entertaining in the first place. The plot sees Ryu …
You may be thinking that this is a little bit of a pointless review. Although we won’t deny that it pretty much does what it says on the tin, to quote an advert that we hope people still remember, Nintendo’s 42 All Time Classics on DS was a game that we got a surprising amount …
There are four new entries in the top 40 this week but none of them have been able to tackle FIFA Street from the top spot. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City – Capcom’s first western-developed Resident Evil – leaps in at #2. That’s followed by Mass Effect 3, FIFA 12, SSX and Call of Duty: …
