This week pQube kindly remind us that it’s winter by releasing Winter Sports 2012: Feel the Spirit on Wii, 3DS and PC. The promotional video includes no in-game footage to speak of, which is a little worrying, but one of the events included is ‘ice speedway’ (read: motorbikes on ice) which sounds pleasingly barmy. It’s …
The Cabela games have been getting slowly better over the years. This is nothing for Activision to be proud of though – they’ve gone from being poor to passable. That’s at least providing you can get over the fact that they all involve shooting innocent animals in the face. This isn’t Activision’s yearly Cabela update …
The third part of our achievement feature involves the stupidest ever to be devised. Feel free to replace the word ‘stupidest’ with the word ‘easiest’ there as most are stupid because they’re so easy to gain. Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is a silly game, parodying dozens of videogames, so it does make …
Last week wasn’t a great one for UK videogame sales. FIFA 12 holds onto the top of the chart for a fourth week running even though sales were down 54% from last week. Just Dance 3 climbs to #2 with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 finishing …
505 Games’ Blackwater is a little too old for us to review (plus we’ve already mentioned that it was one of Metacritic’s worst games of 2011) but after playing through this shoddy on-rails shooter there’s no way we couldn’t write a little something about it. It’s one of those rare games that’s so bad it’s …
The App Store charts look quite familiar at the start of 2012, with Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Bejeweled and so on all taking the top spots in an effort to make all other mobile game developers feel a little hopeless. At least Catchphrase is high in the charts, which should please Roy Walker. Nintendo might …
In January the gaming industry is too bloated from high-calorie Christmas treats to be able to push any new games out of the proverbial door. All part from a few publishers, that is. Step forward Sega and Easy Interactive, who are this week releasing CRUSH3D on 3DS and Heroes of Hellas 2: Olympia on DS. …
Released: 1998 (Japan), 1999 (US and Europe) Format: Dreamcast Sega were determined not the repeat the mistakes from their past with the Dreamcast. Unlike the Sega Saturn they had a Sonic game ready for launch, third-party support was strong, it was easy to develop for and the system had well over 20 games ready to …
With last week’s introduction to the world of achievements out of the way, we’re now free to discuss the best achievements so far. Or Trophies, if you’re that way inclined. The definition of ‘best’ is flexible here – some games have achievements that are straightforward to unlock but have names that induce a grin, while …
There isn’t much going on in the top five positions of the UK chart – FIFA 12 holds onto the top spot, followed by Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Just Dance 3 and Skyrim – but the bottom half of the top 10 has seen a bit of action. Zumba Fitness hurdles …
Nintendo’s Star Catalogue was a load of old tosh back in the day of Game Boy Advance and GameCube. What good was saving up the Stars from inside first party releases if all there was to spend them on were dull wallpapers and ringtones? ‘Physical’ goods did appear now and then, but in such short …
Quite how a game starring a pair of talking cats on a quest to climb a beanstalk and find a magical goose managed to get a 12+ age rating is beyond us. Did nobody at the age rating bureau have fairy tales read to them as a child? That was the first surprise that Puss …
Every month Matt pulls a magazine out for under his bed and gives it a fine going over. Stop giggling at the back there – we’re talking about video game magazines. This month: issue 3 of Future’s Video Gamer from January 2001. Video Gamer must have been a huge risk for Future Publishing. Retailing at …
If you’re thinking that Nintendo’s decision to release Boom Street on Wii on 28th December was a strange one, then you’d be right. Most gamers are still playing the games they received for Christmas while retailers are focused on promoting their sales rather than shifting new releases. As such, Boom Street not only fails to …
A feature on achievements has been a long time coming. How to approach the subject has been food for thought as it’s a wide subject matter. After much deliberation four separate articles seemed the way forward and so for next four weeks we’ll be looking at the best, hardest and stupidest achievements that there are. …
