Trailblazer set to blaze 3DS?

It’s not often we cover gaming news on these pages but here’s a tasty morsel we couldn’t pass up on. According to an interview with Team 3’s Shaun Southern in the new issue of Retro Gamer – which has a nice shiny Zelda cover this month – a 3DS version of the cult retro classic …

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Pokemon and on and on

After finding a boxed Game Boy Color in a charity shop for £2 earlier this month, most of my searches on eBay have been Game Boy related. As such, you can probably guess what format I’m going to kick off this month’s eBay round-up with. Despite being in abundance, the Pokemon games are still quite …

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Brink

Brink sure knows how important it is to make a good first impression. Rather than a predictable CGI intro you’re presented with a neat stop-motion animation showing the construction and eventual ruin of The Arc – a self-sustaining floating city that has become overrun with refugees. You’re then forced to make a major decision right …

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Mario Kart back in the chart

As you can see here in both black and white, L.A. Noire has taken the top spot of the chart. Chart-Track reports that it has become the fastest selling new videogame IP in the UK, with 58% of copies sold so far on Xbox 360 and 42% on PS3. With word of its greatness still …

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Cost per hour: consoles vs apps

I was recently informed by Angry Birds that I’ve played it for more than five hours. That made me think two things: Bugger, really? At 59p, that works out at, in round numbers, about 10 pence an hour. And that made me think: how achievable is 10 pence an hour for a console game? Before …

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Don’t ignore L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire is the type of game that’ll make your console feel all shiny and new, spouting some of the most realistic facial animation seen this generation. It’s a very ambitious game but unlike most that overload on features this one comes close to perfection with only a few repetitive tasks to drag it down. …

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EGM – Exquisitely Good Magazine

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 149 of Electronic Gaming Monthly from December 2001. American magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly – later in life abbreviated to EGM – …

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M.C. Mario off the record

With the Portal 2 ending song proving absurdly popular on YouTube, spawning numerous remixes and tributes, now seems a good time to look back at a very short fad from the ’90s. For reasons unknown – or at least for reasons that didn’t involve making money – record labels thought that releasing remixes of music …

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Beyond the Brink

Good news, everyone! It’s an all new top two in the chart this week. Brink takes the top honours, followed by Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. Interestingly, Brink is #1 in the PlayStation 3 chart as well as Xbox 360, despite PSN only coming back up in the UK on Sunday evening. That said, Eurogamer …

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Art of Balance

I was over a year late to the Art of Balance party, and for that I blame only Nintendo. Had they given the green light to WiiWare demos earlier – as they clearly and obviously should have – then I would have played the demo earlier, and realised how ridiculously brilliant it is earlier. The …

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On the Brink of greatness

The last LEGO game was released less than two months ago but we’re already on the receiving end of another – LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean. This was called in at the last minute to replace the canned Armada of the Damned tie-in – in which you could choose to be good or evil, à …

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Bart vs The Space Mutants

Released: 1991/1992 Formats: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, GameGear, Mega Drive, NES, Master System and ZX Spectrum If you haven’t ever played this game then you’ve at least heard of it – take another look at the list of systems it was released on. Pretty exhaustive, right? And people say that there …

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Mortal Kombat

Playing this Mortal Kombat revamp is like meeting up with an old school friend. They’ve become a lot wiser and more mature, and also better looking, but because you can still remember all the stupid things they did back in the day it’s kind of hard to take them seriously. But since when did people …

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Zumba Fitness still has stamina

Despite being around since the days of the PlayStation 2, Zumba Fitness was 505 Games’ first ever #1 when it was released about a month ago. It has now taken the top spot for a third time, knocking off Portal 2 which was #1 last week. Portal 2 is now at #2, followed by Mortal …

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Basingstoke: centre of the Game universe

I only recently realised that Gameplay is a part of Game Group, as well as Gamestation. And Game, obviously. I’d ordered a few games from a few places, and they had the same Basingstoke return address. “Aha!” I thought. “How mildly notable.” So what is this mysterious distribution centre for the whole of the Game …

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