Games Asylum – Page 362 – Finding the fun since 2001

How do you do, Ken?

This Week’s Games There’s bound to be something out this week to tickle your fancy. Street Fighter IV has been getting excellent reviews and it’s also surprisingly cheap online – Â£27.99 at HMV seems a sensible buy. 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is also said to be jolly good fun (as 50 Cent himself …

Sega doesn’t know their Sonics

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Sega has slipped up! Next to the caption for Sonic 2 on the back of the new Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (known as Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection in the US, for some bizarre reason) somebody has used an image of Sonic 3 by mistake. It’s an easy blunder to make in all fairness – …

Flash in the pan

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Brash Entertainment must be the worst thing to happen to videogames for a long time. After pumping out tat like Jumper, Space Chimps and Alvin and the Chipmunks they went bankrupt, leaving a handful of independent developers up poo creek and ditching several games in the process. These apparently included Saw, Prison Break, Clash of …

Wall to wall

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It’s all well and good using videogame artwork as desktop wallpaper, but a chap named Orioto has gone one better and drawn his own based on retro videogames. They’re available at Deviant ART to download and look dazzling. Shame Sega can’t make a 2D Sonic game that looks as good as this.

U.K C.H.A.R.T.S

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UK Charts Lily Allen’s The Fear is #1 in the music single chart; F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin is #1 in both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 charts. Conspiracy? I think so. It can’t knock Wii Fit off the top of the Top 40 UK chart though, having to make do with #2. There are also …

Random blade insertion

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Pop-Up Pirate! ranks below even Buckaroo on the scale of incredibly basic childhood games. You insert small plastic swords into slots in a barrel until, by pure chance, you hit the slot that makes the pirate pop out of the barrel this time. The infant entertainment comes from the pirate popping out of the barrel, …

Games as genuine scientific news

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New Scientist – as proper a scientific website as you could ask for – brings news of a European emulation project called KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable). It’s going to cost over â‚¬4 million, and last 36 months. Our own University of Portsmouth is one of the participants. It’s aim is wide: to safeguard access …

The scariest day possible

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This Week’s Games It’s Friday the 13th, the scariest day possible. So what do we have released today? Hotel for Dogs, Disney’s Bolt, Ben 10 and Petz. Though admittedly they’re all on DS, hardly the format of choice for developers trying to scare people. FEAR 2: Project Origin sounds more appropriate. Unless I’m completely out …

Why this month?

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It feels a little strange seeing big game releases at this time of year. Well, perhaps it’s not that strange – February is still a fairly dull, cold and wet month for many, an ideal time to sit inside and forget your troubles with a game. Maybe I’m just suffering bus stop syndrome. It feels …

Anyone got shares in Eidos?

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The Eidos share price has more than doubled this morning, on the news that Square Enix has made an offer for the company. The motivation is obvious, and as Yoichi Wada, President of Square Enix, puts it: “Eidos’ products are highly complementary to our business and will accelerate our aggressive expansion into Western markets.” Chairman …

SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1

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One of the biggest joys of rummaging around a retro collection is the feeling of nostalgia, with previous Sega, Midway and Capcom collections bringing back fond memories of the 16-bit era. And when arcades weren’t full of fruit machines. Personally speaking I didn’t get the same buzz from this 16-strong collection. The NeoGeo was one of those mysterious consoles only seen in the likes of Mean Machines and CVG, with games costing more than the console itself. As such, this was more of a SNK history lesson than a trip back to the past. Rose tinted specs, anybody?

The future isn’t bright

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Future Publishing have recently made my head hurt. Back in June they ended the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine but decided to keep the Official PSP Guidebook going. Six months on, it’s increasingly evident that they’ve made the wrong decision. The latest issue of OPG makes for depressing reading – it’s released every 8 weeks but …

There’s a BAFTA for gameplay?

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The nominations for the British Academy Video Game Awards have been announced, and make for really rather dull reading. For the sake of it: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has seven nominations; Grand Theft Auto IV has six; Fable II and LittleBigPlanet have five each. Anyway, what struck me were the categories. I can …

Who wants to be a Millionheir?

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UK Chart Surprise! Nintendo’s Mystery Case Files: Millionheir makes its mark in the chart at #4, which just goes to show what a spot of TV advertising will do for a game. Left 4 Dead is on the rise from #29 to #15 due to being reduced on the high street (Â£29.99 at Game if …

Prefab sprout

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This Week’s Games Plenty of interesting new games for DS owners this week. There’s the evergreen RPG Chrono Trigger, Age of Empires, Konami’s Time Hollow and Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and also Nintendo’s TV-advertised Mystery Case Files: Millionheir. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 only have two new games out – the motorbike-laden Burnout Paradise: …

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