Giving away inFAMOUS for free wasn’t just a way for Sony to say sorry for the PSN fiasco, but also a way to get a few more people interested in the franchise before the sequel comes out. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy inFAMOUS 2 though, as with the majority of Sony’s PlayStation 3-exclusives it’s …
Whoever said you can’t keep a secret these days was wrong. The new Nintendo console is not called Café, Beem, Stream or even Wii 2 or Wii HD but rather Wii U. Simply because it’s a console with something for everybody. You, specifically. There’s enough tech behind it to power visually demanding games and it’s …
Released: 1989 Formats: Game Boy, 3DS Virtual Console Due to a combination of a lack of time, money and experience, most console launch games tend to be either on the basic side or rushed out. The Game Boy’s line-up was no different, comprising rather basic games such as Alleyway, Yakuman (MahJong) and rudimentary sports titles. …
Ideally it would have been ready for launch but it’s certainly a case of better late than never for the 3DS eShop, available from today via a system update. To make up for its tardiness, Nintendo are giving away Pokedex 3D and 3D Classics Excitebike for free. I was assuming that Excitebike would be a …
“Hey, Sony are doing their E3 show tonight, can you cover it?” were Matt’s last ill-fated words to me. So, following on from our Microsoft E3 conference wordage, are these words. Much like Microsoft’s show, which had a heavy Kinect theme – because we all know standing up and waving your arms around is a …
“There’s plenty of life left in the Xbox 360†said Microsoft last week. What they forgot to add is that you’re going to need a Kinect to squeeze that extra milage out of it. Just about every game shown during their E3 conference uses the device in someway from head-tracking in Forza Motorsport 4 (queue …
For a third week in a row L.A. Noire holds onto the top spot of the chart. Brink celebrates a fourth week in the top 5 too but Bethesda’s own Hunted: The Demon’s Forge hasn’t been so lucky having to make do with #14. Considering the lack of reviews and hype though, that’s still not …
E3 doesn’t kick off until tomorrow, but that hasn’t stopped publishers showing off several shiny new games prematurely. It’s hard to imagine that the PR people were worried about them being ignored at the show – some quite big name titles have been bandied about over the past few days. A handful of journalist have …
So far in Street Viewtiful – our jaunt around the world of games – we’ve taken in Sega just off the M4, Rare’s Twycross HQ, and Game Group in Basingstoke. Not very worldly. So let’s expand our horizons, and travel to foreign climes. Those Angry Bird chaps, Rovio, are foreign. Finnish, to be specific. Wonder …
The pickings are slim this week but that’s not necessary a bad thing – it gives our fingers a chance to rest before next week’s E3 news explosion. Hunted: The Demon’s Forge is the ‘big’ release. Nobody was allowed to review it until today; Eurogamer are the first off the bat with a not too …
Nintendo are very close to Ubisoft these days. So much so that they apparently received their Wii 2/Project Café development kits before anybody else. Not only this, but plans are afoot to bundle the 3DS with two different Ubisoft titles – Splinter Cell 3D and Driver: Renegade. Although the bundles have only been announced today …
Even before taking the Plants vs Zombies cartridge out of the box I knew there was going to be a criticism to make. Mastertronic have set £24.99 as the recommended price, which seems awfully steep for a game which was originally designed to be a small and inexpensive PC download. Even a boxed copy of …
Even with a few days extra sales behind it (it was released on a Tuesday) DiRT 3 hasn’t been able to shift L.A. Noire from the top of the chart. Instead, it has to make do with a respectable #2 placing. The Wii price drop has also helped a couple of titles re-enter the top …
Swords & Sworcery was the first iPhone game I had a real expectation of pre-release. Cruel, then, that it was released on iPad first. But hey ho, the anticipation is all part of the enjoyment. And I was happy enough to wait: it looked cool, seemed to have an interesting attiude, and Jim Guthrie was …
Codemasters’ focus on few titles but of a better quality is paying off – the company hasn’t released a duff title in a long time. Following suit is DiRT 3, which was actually released earlier this week. Sadly for PlayStation 3 owners the early release isn’t so much of a boon for them – it …
