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UK Chart It’s official – nobody reads reviews any more. The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, which has been receiving middling reviews, goes in at #3 in the top 40 chart. It’s #1 in the Xbox 360 chart and #3 in the PlayStation 3 chart, which is pretty surprising given how many recent games are …

Bored of the Rings

This Week's Games

This Week’s Games EA continue to wring their The Lord of the Rings license for every last penny, releasing The Lord of the Rings: Conquest on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and PC this week. It’s by Pandemic – the Mercenaries and Full Spectrum Warrior people – but don’t go thinking it’s any good. …

Lyons Maid FAB – it’s lollypop-tastic!

UK Charts

UK Chart Let’s start at the bottom of this week’s chart and work our way up, like they do on the singles chart on the radio. At #40 this week it’s a re-entry for Saints Row 2, then another re-entry for Left 4 Dead at #37. Lara is on a slippery slope down dropping from …

Virtually stupid

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Heard the one about the new PSP owner who thought you had to remove the white casing from the UMD before putting it in the handheld? Well, here’s one that manages to top it – somebody over on the NeoGAF forum claims that their neighbour put not one, not two, but three credit cards into …

RIP EGM

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It’s a sad day – legendary American videogame magazine EGM will ceased to exist as of this month. The February issue, which was due to feature Street Fighter IV on the cover, won’t even make it to the press. It will apparently be available online at 1UP.com soon though. EGM stood tall over other US …

Give a hoot, read a book

UK Charts

UK Chart With only a few big name games on the horizon – Lord of the Rings: Conquest, Skate 2 and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, to be precise – the top ten chart is unlikely to change dramatically for a good while. This week, for example, the only things of note are Far …

You’re buying more budget tat

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The BBC has properly reported on 2008’s video game sales figures, as released by ELSPA and GfK Chart-Track. Basically: we’re buying more games than ever, and across all formats. But it’s not that I’m interested in. Unit and pound figures have been released, meaning we know the average price people are paying for games on …

Do the locomotion

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The January sales – which, oddly, have been starting in mid-December for the last few years – are a thing of brilliance. Not only are the big name games recently released cut in price (Mirror’s Edge for under Â£15? Thanks, Tesco!) but many retailers also flog off the titles that have been gathering dust for some time. A-Train HX, purchased for a nice Â£5.98 in Game, is one such example.

Flower, Sun and Rain

Reviews

Flower, Sun and Rain is almost unplayable, it looks like someone has kicked the graphics into the DS with a muddy boot and I couldn’t possibly recommend playing it to anybody, yet at the same time it’s a game that everyone should go out of their way to experience. Let me explain.

In Flower, Sun and Rain you play as Sumio Mondo, a man sent to Lospass island to prevent a terrorist from blowing up a plane. It sounds pretty normal so far, however the game was designed by Suda51, the mind behind Killer7 and No More Heroes, so it’s batshit insane. The way Sumio tries to stop the attack is to solve really stupid code puzzles.

Britian loves bargains

UK Charts

UK Chart The sales have had an impact on the top 40 chart this week, with the likes of Sonic Unleashed, Far Cry 2, Mirror’s Edge – which is a nice Â£14.71 at Tesco – and Shaun White Snowboarding all rising up a fair few places. Gears of War 2 and GTA IV have also …

Test your success

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I’ve mentioned TrueAchievements before, but since then the site has had a clean and tidy up and had new bits added. If you haven’t been there, the site works out your true Xbox 360 Gamerscore based on how rare your acquired achievements are and how hard they actually are to obtain. You can also see …

Dungeon Maker

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Back when my PC wasn’t so elderly and I could be bothered to mess around with video drivers and all that guff, Bullfrog’s Dungeon Keeper was a game that I clocked up plenty of hours on. You had to build a dungeon to attract monsters, who would then fight for you when the pesky humans came knocking. There was resource management to deal with and also a wicked black sense of humour – whoever knew that vampires enjoyed smearing faecal matter on people’s door handles? Sadly, Dungeon Maker – or Master of the Monster Lair, as it’s known in the US – is nowhere near as amusing.

Hasbro Family Game Night

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Mr. Potato Head’s career is a long and illustrious one. He’s been around since the early ’50s, was the first toy to be advertised on TV, appeared in Toy Story and recently came out in Star Wars and Spider-Man variants. Will this family friendly collection from EA be something to mark up on his CV, or something to hide? Like when the original Mr. Potato Head was criticised for being a waste of a good potato.

Happy Credit Crunchmas everybody!

UK Charts

UK Chart So here it is, merry Christmas, everybody is kicking a piece of virtual spherical leather around. Yes, FIFA 09 is the Christmas number one. It’s EA’s sixth in eight years, so well done them. I’m just glad it wasn’t Need for Speed: Undercover. Call of Duty: World of War, which was tipped for …

Gears of War 2 in words and pictures

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Gears of War 2 is a typically decent sequel, improving on the original in every way possible. It looks and sounds amazing, while the new weapons – including a flamethrower and mortar cannon – have their shortcomings as well as strengths. Which is good. The new multi-player team-based horde mode is stupidly addictive, and the …

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