Although they weren’t developed by Codemasters themselves, Clive Barker’s Jericho, Damnation and Turning Point are often referred to as being amongst the worst games this generation. This suggests that Codemasters hasn’t quite got the knack of sniffing out decent first person shooters to publish. With their past in mind, we always feel sceptical when Codemasters …
Last month, on our tour of the video games world via Google Street View, we paid a visit to Eidos Montreal, and discovered that the studio’s building is called ‘Le Gordon Brown’. It was a surprise, and no mistake. We’ll stay in Montreal this month, and pop over to Ubisoft Montreal, home to Prince of …
Chart-Track stopped their PlayStation 2 full price chart last month. This means only one thing – they have been unable to compile one as next to no full price games have been sold. How do we know this? Because Chart-Track made news headlines yonks ago, after they reported that they were ending the N-Gage chart …
id Software’s RAGE provoked a bit of a sharp response from the developer’s fan base when it was first announced. There’s no multi-player (id themselves invented the term ‘death-match’ lest you forget, back when Doom was released) and it also features racing elements, which is something rarely fused into first person shooters. The developer’s response …
It would appear that plans are afoot to change the packaging of 3DS games, presumably to help them stand out from regular DS titles. Both GAME and Asda have placed red stickers on their 3DS ranges, covering up the usual white 3DS logo on the right hand side and adding an extra 3DS logo on …
Released: 1997 Formats: PC The arse end of the ‘90s was a brilliant time to be a PC gamer. Windows 95 had given PC gaming the huge kick it needed, all new PCs came with CD-ROM drives as standard and dedicated graphics cards were starting to appear. Back then the newest first person shooters, like …
It’s easy to forgot how much of an important part Mercury played during the PSP’s launch. Praise was almost universal, with Sony’s Japanese arm so impressed with it that they snapped it up to publish themselves. Having the name of a respected developer – Archer MacLean – on the cover certainly didn’t do it any …
Apple’s App Review Board has come into scrutiny after letting an unofficial Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game slip onto the App Store. The game, which is apparently close to being unplayable, has been created by a Vietnamese developer going by the name of either Dang Van Phuong or Namphuong Star – depending on which news …
Predictably, FIFA 12 has pushed Gears of War 3 off the top of the UK chart this week. It has become the third biggest UK launch ever, with launch sales up 18% over FIFA 11. You may recall that we were mildly interested in seeing how well the PlayStation 2 version performed, considering that you …
A few months back we took a look at fast food endorsed video games and came to the conclusion that, despite the licenses having clear limitations, most turned out pretty well. Perhaps the developers were worried that they’d be banned from every McDonald’s and Burger King for life if the games they made turned out …
FIFA 12 – or Females Ignored For Another 12 months, as some people have cheekily titled it – is this week’s biggest release. Plenty of good things are being said, although 360 magazine pointed out that if you’re only playing it offline you’re going to miss out on the best stuff. There a rather informative …
Get your rupees at the ready – in celebration of Link’s 25th anniversary Nintendo are going to be transforming Nottingham Market into a ‘Hyrulean Market Village’ next month. The event ties in with GameCity6 on Saturday 29th October and gives the chance for attendees to track down pieces of the Triforce, make their own swords …
If you follow the retro scene you must have heard of TecToy at some point. They’re the company who handled all things Sega in Brazil, not just publishing their games but also developing new ones and even managing to release a few unpublished games that Europe never saw. Just about anything with TecToy on it …
It pains us to say it, but there are developers out there who simply take on projects that are destined to be dire to save having to turf their staff out onto the streets. A fine example are studios signed up to make movie tie-ins on incredibly short deadlines, or asked to make a budget …
There’s no prize for guessing what game is at the top of the UK chart this week. You may not have guessed though that Gears of War 3 ranks as the biggest launch of this year so far, almost beating the launch week figures for Gears 1 and 2 combined. Codemasters’ F1 2011 makes a …
