There have been some really good science documentaries recently: Wonders of the Universe, with physics megastar (pun intended) Prof Brian Cox; TV’s Ben Miller getting to grips with temperature on Horizon; and BBC Four’s Everything and Nothing. Properly entertaining, and properly mind-bending. It’s fun to stimulate your brain’s big number region. Like this: there are …
Having sold 3 million copies of Michael Jackson: The Experience on Wii, DS and PSP, Ubisoft are now ready to unleash the late ‘King of Pop’ onto Kinect and PlayStation Move. It’s not the only Kinect game out this week either – Fantastic Pets also joins Jackson. There’s a demo on Xbox Live if you’re …
How did Nintendo celebrate Mario’s 25th birthday? They put a crusty old SNES game on a Wii disk and bundled it with a music CD that wasn’t even worth taking out of the box. Unbelievable, really. Rumour has it that Nintendo plans a similar package for Link’s 25th birthday. Could a press release like the …
Released: 1991 Format: Sega GameGear Kuni-Chan no Game Tengoku (Kuni-Chan’s Game Paradise) has so much history buried deep within its After Eight-shaped cartridge that it’s hard to know where to begin. The intro is a good place, I suppose – it’s set within the walls of Castle of Illusion, the very same place that Mickey …
Samurai Shodown Sen is a game that I’ve had my eye on for a while, slowly waiting for the price to drop. I nearly brought it when it dropped to £8 in HMV but my patience paid off – a couple of weeks ago it dropped to £5. In a nutshell, it’s a borderline average …
I should have saved last week’s ‘Aye carumba – it’s Zumba’ headline for this week – Zumba Fitness now at #1 in the chart, pushing Crysis 2 to #2. It’s the first ever #1 for 505 Games and also the first fitness game to take the top of the chart since Wii Fit Plus in …
As much as it pains us to say it, Nintendo’s big 3DS launch game is just the flying level from Wii Sports Resort in a gloried form. If you have played Wii Sports Resort you will instantly remember the WuHu Island backdrop and if it’s still fresh in your mind then you won’t find much …
It seems like the gaming world has got over its desperation to be represented on mainstream television. With Wii Network Live or whatever, YouTube, and video content from websites far more professional than this one, the need has perhaps diminished somewhat. Good for Channel 4, then, for sneaking out a series about the annual Dare …
Our trip around the world of gaming via the medium of Google Street View continues. In the Nintendo years, Rare was a notoriously secretive company – which made the developer all the more fascinating to its fervent fans. Under the ownership of Microsoft, that mystique has faded somewhat – blame the games, blame the fans, …
A new Duke Nukem is hitting shop shelves this week. Not, not that one, but rather Duke Nukem: Critical Mass on DS. It has nothing to do with Take-Two or Gearbox – it’s being published by Deep Silver and is part of a trilogy. There’s a little bit of history behind it: developers Apogee thought …
Namco’s contribution to the 3DS line-up starts off with a loading screen. There’s nothing bizarre about this but the fact they didn’t include a Galaxian mini-game, Ã la the PlayStation original, to distract from the fact that it has to load seems like a missed opportunity. Perhaps the reasoning behind this is that Namco wanted …
Sega recently announced the first batch of GameGear games that’ll be appearing on the 3DS’s Virtual Console. If you missed the announcement, the line-up comprises Sonic & Tails 2, Sonic Drift 2, The GG Shinobi, Dragon Crystal: Shirai’s Maze and Columns. Why they chose to use the Japanese names of each is beyond me – …
The eye-ball pleasing Crysis 2 has managed to stay at the top of the chart for another week. The game at #2 may surprise you – it isn’t MotorStorm Apocalyspe (which makes its appearance at a lowly #17) or Shift 2: Unleashed (in at #4) but rather Zumba Fitness. Not wanting to blow my own …
So, you’re out and about walking around town with your Nintendo 3DS tucked in your pocket in sleep mode. You get home and, hey presto, a flashing light is emitting from the 3DS. No, not the small amber flashing light – that’s to indicate wireless. The light we’re talking about is a very special one. …
The ability to charge good money for single retro titles on the likes of Xbox Live Arcade and Virtual Console has made publishers very stingy with their retro complications. The likes of Midway Arcade Treasures, Capcom Classics, EA Replay and Taito Legends on PlayStation 2 and Xbox were rammed full of content but so far …
