They say that there are five stages of grief. Well, in my experience, there are three stages of Angry Birds Space. 1. Anticipation Fuelled by the NASA association, endless tie-ins and ceaseless media attention, the impression that this is a Big Deal built and built. With it came an assumption that it must be a …
Supersonic’s much loved racer Mashed from 2004 is about to get a spiritual sequel on PSN and Xbox Live Arcade very soon. How soon? Wednesday, 28th March. WRECKED – Revenge Revisited sounds like a comprehensive package. There are 14 different weapons, including 5 types of air-strikes, co-op play both local and online for four players …
Capcom seemingly learnt nothing from the forgettable Resident Evil: Outbreak series on PlayStation 2 – Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has been getting some terrible reviews, including a 3/10 from gamesTM. GamesMaster also reviewed it this month but didn’t give it a score as they weren’t able to play it online. They did however point …
GamePro has been in the news recently. Sadly, it hasn’t been for the best of reasons – both the website and magazine were closed down in December. When visiting the GamePro.com now, those expecting gaming news and reviews are instead redirected to the PC World magazine website. The magazine had been struggling for a while …
Most gamers nowadays have a ‘pile of shame’ – a stack of games purchased at impulse prices, waiting to be played. Lately, rather than simply picking a game that I’m in the mood to play, I’ve had to put a little bit of thought into what titles to tackle first. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine had …
EA rules the roost this week – new entry FIFA Street is at #1, followed by Mass Effect 3, SSX and FIFA 12. Mario Party 9 remains at #5 while RAGE has leaped back up the chart, all the way from #20 to #7. Out of the all the titles in the top 5, four …
You may have noticed a few news stories floating around about Game Group lately. Just a few. Not stocking various big releases, share price plummeting, not stocking another big release, rumours of impending administration, not stocking some more big releases, not stocking another big release, potential buyers – and apparently they’re not stocking some big …
Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2012 is out this week which in a way is ironic – as we were compiling this new release round up we found it hard to identify what this week’s big game is. Not that there isn’t anything decent out – it’s just a funny week of odds and sods. Football …
Released: 1996 Formats: Game Gear, Master System (Brazil only) The Game Gear lived such a long life that the last few games for it were not based on Mega Drive titles but rather spin-offs of early Sega Saturn games such Panzer Dragoon Mini, Virtua Fighter Animation and Baku Baku. Sonic Blast was another late Game …
You know how some films are so bad that you can’t help yourself but to keep watching? MorphX is the videogame equivalent, riddled with plot holes, clichés, bad voice acting and poor dialogue. It’s a third person romp that 505 Games slipped out on the sly back in 2010, heralding all the way from an …
We’re surprised that Sega didn’t make a bigger fuss of this third-person shooter being masterminded by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator behind the Yakuza games. The Yakzua series has a strong following all over the world and as it’s a franchise associated with Sony-formats this will be the first time that Xbox 360 owners get to …
There’s no prize for guessing what the UK number one is this week. Even without GAME stocking Mass Effect 3, it has still gone on to becoming this year’s biggest game launch so far and managed to shift more copies than both Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 combined during their launches. Chart Track …
I have to admit, I’ve outsourced this review of Puzzler World 2012 for Nintendo DS to my girlfriend. Is that generosity – she enjoys a good puzzle book on holiday, that sort of thing? Conscientious – seeking an expert opinion for you, the valued reader? Or plain, bone-idle laziness? Take your pick. Let’s find out …
I don’t think we’ll ever understand publishers. Capcom’s ‘interactive anime’ Asura’s Wrath was pushed back from last month to this month, but what a day to choose to finally release it. Not only is it going up Mass Effect 3 but also Capcom’s own Street Fighter X Tekken. There’s Twisted Metal on PlayStation 3 and …
Our recent farewell to the PSP sparked a desire to start a collection of the format’s finest, and while snapping up titles for literally pocket change it dawned on me that the PSP had a very similar life to the Sega Game Gear. The aesthetic similarities are as clear as day but there are also …
