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Crackdown 2

Have you ever seen a game that’s ridiculously cheap but it’s not a game you ever planned to buy, but still buy it anyway because it’s at a price too good to miss? This is what happened with me and Crackdown 2 after finding the metal tin edition in Cash Converters for Â£6.99. Knowing it …

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that this is a Pac-Man too far – going by screenshots alone it doesn’t look massively different from 2007’s Pac-Man Champion Edition. Within seconds of playing it though you’ll quickly realise that it’s a very different beast. It’s easier for starters. Pac-Man has seemingly been hanging around with Bomberman and …

The return of Cannon Fodder

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Many years ago Codemasters announced a new Cannon Fodder for PSP. It was never released, but now some four years later it has been decided a new Cannon Fodder is a good idea after all. This time round though it’s merely â€˜under license’ from Codemasters with Russian publisher GFI in charge. Retaining the same cartoon-like …

Top of the Blops

UK Charts

FIFA 11 has been top of the chart for a couple of weeks but now Call of Duty: Black Ops has re-taken the top spot. Kinect Sports has risen from #10 to #5 and this week also marks the appearance of the first new entry of 2011 – DC Universe Online at #10. The Xbox …

Lara Croft goes topless

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Whoever designed the boxart for The Tomb Raider Trilogy must be sick of the sight of Lara’s face – she’s missing her head in part of the image: This strikes me as a very strange thing to do to poor old Lara. Perhaps the artwork designer though it would be a good idea to show …

Nintendo’s willingness to charge more

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This week’s shenanigans from retail group The Hut – shoving up listings for the Nintendo 3DS priced at Â£300 (now changed to pre-order pages) – got me thinking. The 3DS is set to be Nintendo’s most expensive piece of hardware since the Nintendo 64, 14 long years ago. The UK price has yet to be …

Pants go on the outside

This Week's Games

The first games of 2011 are here and they’re something of an odd bunch. Capcom’s Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on DS is the highlight thanks to a string of strong review scores. The cheapest price seems to be Â£23.47 on Amazon unless anybody knows different. There’s also Kingdom Hearts Re:coded on DS, which is an …

Theme Park

Our Pixilated Past

Released: 1995 Formats: Mega Drive (played), Mega-CD, SNES, PC, Amiga, 3DO When Bullfrog started developing Theme Park for the Amiga and PC I doubt that even in their wildest collective dreams would the game end up on the humble Mega Drive. But EA gets what EA wants, and conversions for both Mega Drive and SNES …

2010: The games that you brought lots of

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With the dust now starting to settle on 2010, the UKIE (The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment) have released charts for the best selling games of last year.

To learn that Call of Duty: Black Ops sold a shit load of copies isn’t a massive surprise. To see both Just Dance games in the chart though is a little surprising, as is the appearance of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I was under the impression that it charted quite highly upon release and then swiftly vanished. The biggest surprise of all though is to find that Art Academy was one of the best selling DS games of last year.

The best seller list for PSP makes for sad reading – two of the five games are FIFA. A similar thing has happened in the PC chart too, with both Football Manager 2010 and Football Manager 2011 being present.

You can view the charts in full by clicking on the link below.

(Ch)art attack

UK Charts

It would seem that more than a few gamers ate too much over the festive period. Just Dance 2 is up from #4 to #2, Wii Fit Plus has risen from #13 to #5 while EA Sports Active 2 has entered at #13. Kinect Sport is also still in the top 10, although it has …

Megamind: Ultimate Showdown

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If I had a mega mind I know what I’d do – develop a game that’ll sit on top of the charts for months so I’d be able to go to sleep on a mattress stuffed with Â£50 notes. By playing this CGI movie tie-in I’d say that developers THQ Australia don’t share the same …

2010: The pirate’s choice

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I saw a brand new copy of Red Steel 2 for Â£4.99 the other day. I know that it didn’t gain as much interest as the first game did but to see it fall to such a low price was a surprise. Turns out though that there were plenty of people interested in it. 850,000 …

Legs eleven

UK Charts

UK Charts This week’s chart is the first since Christmas. This means that a lot of new console owners have been contributing to game sales over the last seven days, and also those who have been out looking for bargains in the sales. There’s a change over on the top of the chart for starters …

Worms Battle Islands

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Like many gamers of a certain age, I remember multiplayer games of the original Worms with great fondness. But since then, I have played some awful Worms games in the name of this website. So I wasn’t exactly expecting much from this budget Wii release. But praise Team 17: it’s not messed up at all! …

New year, new features

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Congratulations, everybody – we’re now all one year closer to death. One resolution we’re making for 2011 is to bring you two new regular monthly features. With retro gaming arguably more popular than ever we’ll dusting off some old videogame cartridges and writing some words about them. Rather than talk about the usual stuff though …

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