This Week’s Games For those that are willing to brave the snow, or have a postman willing to work during all weather conditions, there are a few quality titles out this week. Donkey Kong Country Returns is Nintendo’s big Christmas Wii game and everybody who plays it seemingly loves it. If you missed the news …
It’s hard to believe that Create – a physics based puzzle game, much like those that get downloaded millions of times by mobile phone gamers – comes from the same studio that gave us Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Why? Because it’s the total opposite. The Deathly Hallows was sloppily made, unimaginative and a …
UK Charts Reviews of Epic Mickey may not have been epic, but it hasn’t even sold well enough to get into the top 40 chart this week. The best it can do is #11 in the Wii chart. Maybe it’ll do a little bit better in America? Who knows. There’s a new #1 though – …
The school of Hogwarts doesn’t appear at all in the new Harry Potter film, so it makes sense that it isn’t in the game either. Instead, Harry is on the run and living life as a fugitive. This fits in nicely with the game’s new action-orientated direction: it’s a third person shooter. Well, a third …
This Week’s Games Reviews for Epic Mickey are starting to appear and are off to a bumpy start – the Official Nintendo Magazine gave it 85% while Eurogamer painted a 6/10 on it. I’d wait for a few more reviews before splashing the cash, especially seeing that Donkey Kong Country is out next week. Raving …
Jake’s recent article on WiiWare demos got my big grey muscle flexing. Not about demos, but rather in-store demo pods. Back in the days when Ninja Turtles were the coolest thing on TV and my average earnings were £2 pocket money per week, I would always make a beeline to the in-store demo pods… especially …
With Costume Quest done and dusted, Double Fine have now started to detail their next game – a third-person adventure entitled Stacking. The game gets its peculiar name from the fact that it stars Russian stacking dolls, with the aim being to help re-unite the youngest one with his family. As long as another character …
UK Charts Despite the very fine Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit being released last week, Call of Duty: Black Ops has held onto #1. They have to make do with #2 and #3 respectively. Wii Sports Resort has risen from #19 to #7 but Fallout: New Vegas has fallen from #7 …
Blood Drive is one of those games where after an hour of play you will have seen and done everything it has to offer – after that first hour, you’re simply left doing the same thing again and again. In Blood Drive’s case that’s driving around dull arenas, mowing down zombies, firing projectiles at rivals …
It always makes me double-take when I notice that North America is getting something after Europe. Especially when that something is from Nintendo. But that’s what’s happened with the return of WiiWare demos. Hooray! They arrived in Europe earlier this month, and North America gets the goodness from Monday. It was a year ago that …
This Week’s Games Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has gone from being a game quietly announced with very little fanfare to being the highest rated game this winter. It currently has an average review score of 92%, which is higher than even Call of Duty: Black Ops (currently at 88%). Eurogamer gave it 10/10: “Never before have …
Back in 2009 when I reviewed Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection I said that it would be a cold day in hell when Nintendo releases a collection of 16-bit hits. I still can’t see Nintendo sharing their back catalogue in full any time soon, and after reading NGamer Magazine’s review of Super Mario All-Stars: 25th …
UK Charts There’s no prize for guessing what’s #1 this week. 2m copies were sold in the UK over 5 days, generating an estimated £81.9m. The Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops sold the most copies with 55% of the share, while the PS3 version gained 42%. This means that the Wii, …
This Week’s Games It seems funny to say that most of the games out this week require another £130 to be blown in order able to play. I am of course talking about the Kinect, which doesn’t appear to be totally sold out just yet. Eurogamer reviewed the launch line up last week – Dance …
Long before Enslaved there was a TV series shown in the 70s called Monkey that was also based on the 16th century Chinese novel SaiyÅ«ki. According to the TV show theme tune 70s Monkey was “the funkiest monkey that ever poppedâ€. If you called this new Monkey a funky monkey he’d probably pop you round …
