Released: 1996 Format: Sega Saturn Here’s a little story for you. When Sega originally revealed Christmas Nights they announced that it would only be available as a freebie to those who purchased certain Sega Saturn games. With my only source of income at the time being a paper-round, there was no way I’d be able …
GAME’s store display raised a smile today. The collector’s edition of Skyrim, which comes in a huge box due to containing a dragon statue big enough to knock out a whole family of burglars, was marked up with a sticker claiming it to be a “perfect stocking fillerâ€. A giant’s stocking, perhaps. Moreover, it’s ruddy …
Previous Mario Kart games have proven to be what Nintendo themselves call ‘evergreen sellers’ – games that keep on selling even years after being released. Obviously, then, it makes sense from a financial point of view for Nintendo to release a Mario Kart game early in a system’s life. Having Mario Kart 7 ready for …
A lot of people must have thought the heavy high street discounts for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim were too good to miss – it’s back at #1 in the UK chart this week, pushing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 down to #2. It’s a shame that GAME/GameStation’s £22.49 deal was only for one …
The worlds of mobile and proper games overlap this week, with the release of Dizzy: Prince of the Yolk Folk on iOS and Android, and Chrono Trigger on iOS. £6.99 for the latter. £6.99! It’s easy to forget that that’s probably cheaper than you can get the game on any other format. While all this …
A can of imitation Red Bull and a packet of fizzy sweets lead to us starting a daft topic on Twitter – fake achievements for the very real Twister Mania for Kinect. Behold our sugar rush induced musings: Got off the sofa! (North America only) – 15G Don’t guff in your girlfriend’s face – 30G …
There are still plenty of shopping days left until Christmas but the publishers seemingly aren’t aware of this – just four games are out this week. Just Dance 3 hits PlayStation 3 belatedly which should help it shoot even higher up the chart. It requires the PS Move and as such we wouldn’t be surprised …
This month’s issue of the rather impartial NGamer magazine will be the last. Fans of the magazine need not to worry – it’s “entering a chrysalis to emerge as a beautiful papery butterfly†to become Nintendo Gamer. We assume that they’re hoping the new look will entice those who receive a new Nintendo console for …
Usually once a month we carefully hand-select a vintage videogame magazine from our extensive collection and give it a going over, but with Christmas upon us this month we’re instead looking at something different. That something is Grandream’s Official Sonic the Hedgehog Yearbook from 1992. As a youth, the Beano and Dandy Christmas annuals would …
Our copy of Ubisoft’s latest rabid animal outing was acquired dubiously. Not stolen, or downloaded, but priced up incorrectly – according to the price sticker the staff member who had put it out on the shelf had got it mixed up with 2006’s Rayman Raving Rabbids. When even game store staff get confused, this suggests …
Mario Kart 7’s arrival means that there are two 3DS games in the top 10 this week – Mario Kart 7 at #8 and Super Mario 3D Land at #10. After the photo above was taken, Reggie was told to stop messing around and go back to work. Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call – …
Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training proved that a system seller doesn’t have to be big budget or be packed with pretty visuals. It took nine developers just three months to make and went on to sell millions. You’d think that Nintendo would have tried to recreate its success with the 3DS, but no, they’re seemingly happy …
The last week has been a bit quiet for the various app stores, although Infinity Blade II, the sequel to the massively successful original, was a fairly noteworthy release. We haven’t bothered reviewing that though, as we’d probably just write “it’s almost exactly the same as the original, only better”. I suppose you could call …
The PSP has pretty much been ignored by publishers this winter, with just a few annual sport games and LEGO Harry Potter to see it through the bleak winter months. Square-Enix though are coming to the rescue – not only have they almost single-handedly kept the system in the public eye over the past year …
Last time we visited the free to download Kinect Fun Labs we were left feeling more than a little disappointed. Although the presentation of the gadgets it contains was imaginative in places, you’d have to be a special case to want to play around with any of them for longer than ten minutes. Since then …
