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Mahjong – more popular than Star Wars

UK Chart The headline? That’s as far as DS owners are concerned. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed only manages to get to #39 in the DS chart, whereas Mahjongg goes in at #17. Star Wars is top of the all formats chart though, and #1 in all three PlayStation charts, as well as Xbox 360. …

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I dutifully downloaded the first episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – subtitled Homestar Runner – when it was released on WiiWare. For free, of course, using the Wii Points I’d exchanged for the Stars I’ve collected over the years. I intended to review it properly, but now that the second episode …

Viva PiÃ±ata: Trouble in Paradise

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The bad news is that Trouble in Paradise feels more like a special edition of the first Viva PiÃ±ata than a fully fledged sequel. The good news is that it’s still as addictive as ever, and the new refinements make for a better game. It’s a lot harder to unlock the achievements this time round too, but whether that’s a good thing or not is up to you. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of back breaking labour – apart from the whole back breaking thing.

Mahjong madness

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This Week’s Games Sega’s Yakuza 2 on PlayStation 2 could very well end up being the last decent PlayStation 2 exclusive. Sure, there are plenty of games still on the way for the aging format, but most are toned-down conversions. If you liked Shenmue then buy it – it has lots in common with Sega’s …

Pixel perfect

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Retro box art can be a great source of amusement, as proved by the artwork for the first ever Mega Man game. The wags over at The Minus World have decided to go one step further and knock up some retro-style artwork for current releases including Bioshock, No More Heroes and Portal. The result? Like …

Ecolis: Save the Forest

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Imagine if every time you wanted to boil the kettle you had to push six or seven buttons, set a timer and then choose a temperature instead of just flicking a switch to set the water boiling. That would be pretty annoying, right? This quirky Pikmin-alike RTS also suffers from being too convolved for its own good.

As the title suggests, Ecolis has an anti-pollution vibe, with idea being to save a forest from destruction by ordering around armies of squirrels and beavers. But whereas Pikmin and Command & Conquer were blessed with simple and effective control systems, Ecolis has been lumbered with a painfully cumbersome way of doing things.

More reasons to shop at Morrisons

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UK Chart Remember when the chart was full of Â£1 PC games that Asda was flogging? Something similar has happened. See, Morrisons had quite a good deal on last week – selected new Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games were Â£25, Wii games Â£15 and DS games Â£12. This seems to have had a knock …

Rocking all the way to the bank

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This Week’s Games The credit crunch seems to have rubbed off on the gaming world. Supreme Commander is out on Xbox 360 this week for a hefty Â£29.99. The PC version, which came out over a year and a half ago, can easily be found for around a fiver. Then there’s a belated appearance for …

Mario’s a family guy

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Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth McFarlane is branching out into animated shorts, with the first an amusing little parody of Super Mario. Sponsored by Burger King! This about a dog on a gameshow is better still.

Dead system, new game

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I’ve just found out that – for some bizarre reason – EA released Madden NFL 09 on the original Xbox last month. It’s the first game to be released on the deceased system for over a year – the last game was Madden NFL 08 on precisely 14th August 2007. The last PAL release, if …

World hold on

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UK Chart The top three games in the chart this week are all published by EA – Mercenaries 2: World in Flames at #1, Tiger Woods 09 at #2 and Spore at #3 – but it’s not all good news for the company, with Facebreaker failing to break into the top 40 at all. It’s …

Spore – a quick summary

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8 years in the making, 5 hours to play through from single celled organism to galactic empire… Half that time was spent in the editor too. A case of a brilliant concept, with lavish development, then bugger all actual game? It’s not that Spore’s bad (the editor and creature stage is all rather good fun), …

A pocket full of critters

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This Week’s Games I made a mistake in last week’s new game round up by claiming that Fable II is Microsoft’s next big first party Xbox 360 game. It isn’t, but don’t blame me – Viva Pinata 2: Trouble in Paradise has appeared out of almost nowhere. It’s meant to be good though, as is …

EA – exceptionally arrogant

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To promote today’s release of Mercenaries 2: World In Flames, EA attempted to recreate scenes of a fuel crisis in Venezuela, as found in the game, but in North London. Hands up who thinks that’s a good idea. The only people to put their hands up are in EA’s marketing department. And they’re all idiots. …

Fuck you, WWE!

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Apologies for the harsh language there, but you may (or may not) have noticed that Games Asylum’s YouTube page has been permanently disabled. Occasionally we’d get the odd e-mail from EA and other publishers via YouTube claiming copyright on videos that we uploaded, but they didn’t mind us uploading them. And why would they? We’re …

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