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Scrooges snaffle Sainsbury’s stock

You may have heard that Sainsbury’s cut the price of Xbox 360 and Wii consoles this week by Â£30 a piece. But if you’re struggling to find one, then don’t blame Sainsbury’s staff for snapping them up – Game, GameStation and other high street stores have confessed that they sent out store managers to pick …

Bakushow

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Just to be completely unclear, I don’t know whether this is a review of Bakushow. In fact, I’m not convinced that you can really review Bakushow. The internet thinks you can, of course, but the wide range of scores suggests that even if it can be reviewed in the traditional sense, it’s probably not worth …

England likes football

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UK Chart FIFA 09 plays a good game of football, so it can only be a good thing that it has become the fastest selling FIFA so far. Furthermore, it has become the 3rd fastest selling game on Xbox 360 (behind Halo 3 and GTA IV), with 42% of sales being for Microsoft’s box. The …

Remember to chew

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Are you a PC MMO player that can’t be bothered to pop down to Tesco for food supplies for your 48 hour intense leveling-up sessions? Well here’s news for you, lardy – you’re going to die a sad and lonely life. But you probably knew this already, so here’s some real news – Biosilo Foods …

Facebreaker

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Predictably poor licensed pap aside (hello WALL-E, Iron Man and Lost!) there haven’t been many truly awful Xbox 360 games released this year. That was until EA’s Facebreaker came along; a game that’s akin to a five year old child telling you the same joke over and over again. And then you throw the child in the nearest dustbin.

Fable II: The Heavily Trimmed Collector’s Edition

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Game have been emailing those who have pre-ordered the Fable II Collector’s Edition warning that nearly all of the proposed goodies have been dropped due to a â€œsupply chain issueâ€. The Hobbe figurine and a set of five postcards were the first items to be removed around a week ago, but now the soundtrack and …

Growlanser: Heritage of War

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In Growlanser every character seems to be an orphan; quiet types, who say things like “…” and “umm”. You see, most of the characters’ parents where killed in the war, because war is bad. The characters are out to stop war, because war is bad. Did I mention that war is bad? Well it is. The game told me. Every five seconds. The previous generations of orphans had a great idea to stop the war. They pointed a big gun at everyone and asked them to be quiet. However, now there’s a new enemy. The earth is being attacked by the mysterious screapers, who live in the sea but occasionally come inland to chow down on some human flesh. The story is in equal parts uninspiring, clichÃ©d and stupid.

It’s all kicking off

This Week's Games

This Week’s Games If it wasn’t for FIFA 09, this week would be an absurdly quiet one for new releases, with Zubo, SimCity Creator, Phoenix Wright and Dancing Stage SuperNOVA 2 being the only other titles. Supermarkets are having a mini price-war with FIFA this weekend – ASDA are selling the Xbox 360 and PlayStation …

The new, slightly different, DSi

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Nintendo can’t sit still for two minutes. After introducing the redesigned DS Lite a couple of years ago, they’re at it again. This time it’s called the DSi and it’s an ever-so-slightly modified version of the DS Lite. What’s new? The DSi features a slightly bigger 3.25″ screen (as opposed to 3″ on the DS …

Wario fails to shake up the chart

UK Charts

UK Chart Now here’s a surprise – Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, Samba de Amigo and Sonic Chronicles have all failed to enter the top 40 chart. However, Pure – Disney’s ATV racer that’s had little publicity – skids in at a lofty #9. Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway goes in at #4, then lower …

The shape of things to come?

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Sony seem to be pushing the PSN a lot recently. First they had GT4 Prologue released as a download, and now two major titles have popped up in a week. Wipeout HD is in a word, superb. It looks amazing, the craft control perfectly, and there’s tons of stuff to do. They’ve even managed to …

He ain’t heavy

This Week's Games

This Week’s Games Can you stomach yet another war game? Ubisoft hopes so – Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway and Brothers in Arms: Double Time for Wii are both out today. Hell’s Highway has been getting a lot of 7s and 8s in the press and is apparently a bit on the gory side. Double …

How many missing people called Maddie are there?

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As you may have read (or seen) elsewhere, Bungie aren’t ditching Halo just yet and yesterday released a teaser trailer for what looks like a new Halo 3 campaign. Around half way through the video some garbled text appears and if you watch without blinking the words â€˜MADDIE, WHERE ARE YOU?’ flash up for a …

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09

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EA’s latest version of ball-o-stick-o can be compared to the much underrated Xbox 360 shooter Shadowrun. No, Shadowrun doesn’t feature a hidden golf mini-game (although Viva PiÃ±ata: Trouble in Paradise does – try knocking sweets into holes with the spade). But like Shadowrun, if you don’t have your console connected to Xbox Live then you’re going to miss out on the best bits.

Buy Banjo-Kazooie, get Banjo-Kazooie free

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Game, Gamestation and Play are all giving away the original Nintendo 64 Banjo-Kazooie as a free Xbox Live Arcade download when you pre-order Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts on Xbox 360. The two games tie into each other to make use of the abandoned swap-shop feature that Banjo-Tooie was supposed to use. So it’s a good …

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