All those who said they’d eat their hat the day a decent cartoon licensed game arrives should get ready to eat hat pie – Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck on DS has been getting some very warm reviews. Rather than being another generic platformer, the idea is to frustrate Daffy as much as possible – the …
Sega’s Football Manager 2008 – for PeeCees – has knocked FIFA 08 off the top spot and has become Sega’s first number one since Football Manager 2007. The Orange Box has managed to outsell Zelda: Phantom Hourglass – Valve’s collection goes in at #3, while Link’s latest enters at #4, one place above Halo 3. …
In a genre neatly sewn up by Activision and their annual Tony Hawks knee scraping sims, you’d be forgiven for thinking that EA’s developers would struggle to get one over on the bird man. Admittedly we did have our doubts on hearing ‘Ace of Spades’ unpredictably blaring out over the FMV intro, not to mention …
Just as I was ready to write the PlayStation 3 off as a disaster of Dreamcast proportions, Sony release quite possibly the first game that’s ever come close to looking like a real CGI film (that doesn’t involve shooting people from a first person perspective) – and that game is Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools …
Will The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass be able to knock FIFA 08 from the top of the charts? We’d like to think so – it’s not as if the DS hasn’t been selling well in the UK. Nintendo would probably be just as pleased if it outsold Halo 3 – currently at #3 in …
It’s a slow news day, not that it matters much around these parts, so we’d though we’d introduce you to High Score 100 – a Transfomer toy loosely based on a PlayStation joypad. Sadly he’s a bit smaller than the real deal, but still very cool. Can we have a free one please, Hasbro?
The Sims bandwagon keeps on rolling, but whereas the Wii’s rushed out conversion of The Sims 2: Pets was a bit of damp dog, this tailor-made effort is superlative stuff. In fact it’s more like a medley of Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon than a proper Sims game – you don’t have to make them …
Now here’s a surprise – Capcom’s Bionic Commando – last seen in Marvel vs Capcom 2, we believe – is making a comeback on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. The first person to link the headline to the game in question wins an awesome invisible prize. The 1988 8-bit original was a neat run …
The second – or is it third? – PlayStation 3 price drop has shaken up the chart a bit, propelling Resistance all the way from #22 to #8 and Motorstorm up from #23 to #18. Heavenly Sword goes back in at #14 and Formula 1 also makes a re-appearance at #24. Project Gotham Racing 4 …
How’d this happen? Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron – one of the biggest PSP exclusives of recent times – arrives on store shelves with hardly any fanfare. It’ll be interesting to see how well it does in the top 40 chart as this week’s #1 PSP game – Final Fantasy Tactics – hasn’t even managed …
Nintendo has been full of surprises recently, but perhaps the biggest surprise of all is that they keep on coming. Have a read of this little lot just announced at a Japanese press conference. Which was held in Japan. To be honest the first announcement isn’t really that much of a surprise. To wit: Sonic …
Business management games work nicely on the DS, as EA’s conversions of Theme Park and Sim City have proved. One that seems to have passed under the radar though is the largely self-explanatory Toy Shop by Lexicon Entertainment, due out early next year. Two siblings inherit their grandfather’s shop, but rather than sell it and …
After just one week Halo 3 has been knocked from the top of the charts by FIFA 08. Bungie’s blaster now rests at #2, with Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights at #3. We’d say that THQ timed the release of Juiced 2 just right – it probably wouldn’t have done half as well as it …
Sony have reduced the price of the 60GB PS3 to 350 quid. You’ll also get two first party games with that. If that offer rocks your boat, you’ll have to act quick though, as Sony have taken the slightly strange decision to axe the 60GB version of the console once all the stock has sold …
After last week’s chaotic release schedule things have calmed down somewhat this week, with Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions on PSP being the only highlight. Both EDGE and Eurogamer gave it a 9, with the latter claiming it to be “Gorgeous, complex, well-written and beautifully presentedâ€. There’s a couple of CSI games …
