Greenpeace have again been shouting at format holders for not making games consoles environmentally friendly enough. Digital Spy’s headline? Consoles ‘contain hazardous chemicals’. My advice: don’t eat them. The BBC‘s story is less retarded. And Greenpeace do have a point: Nintendo are known to be bloody rubbish when it comes to environmental concerns, Sony don’t …
Brash Entertainment are yet to present the population with a decent video game, their previous efforts including the dismal Jumper and Alvin and the Chipmunks. It looks like their next game Space Chimps is going to be a real black banana too. How many clichés did you manage to spot? I counted 14, not including …
Hooray – Boom Blox has entered the chart on its second week of release at a not too shabby #21. Top Trumps: Doctor Who goes in at #22 and Speed Racer all the way down at #37. That’s a little bit of a shame as it’s the first decent movie license of the year. All …
Re-releasing a three year old PlayStation 2 game on Xbox 360 under a new name and with very few improvements of note sounds like a catastrophe in the making. But when that game is Beautiful Katamari? It’s something magical. Not everything has been recycled from We Love Katamari – there are new levels and music …
Knock knock. Who’s there? Doctor. Doctor Who? Yes! Top Trumps: Dr. Who for PlayStation 2 and DS is bound to sell better than last year’s Top Trumps games. A proper 3D action game would sell better still no doubt, even if it was a load of tosh. Silent Hill Origins on PlayStation 2, Dream Pinball …
Oh dear – people are actually buying Sega’s utterly rubbish Iron Man game. It’s now at #5 in the chart, up 6 positions. The DS version though is apparently pretty good, so let’s hope that’s the one people have been buying. GTA IV holds onto the top spot, which is no shocker, with Wii Fit …
The PSP has been outselling the DS in Japan recently, with games such as Monster Hunter 2nd G and Final Fantasy VII Core Crisis proving incredibly popular. Over in the western world though things are starting to look stark, with publishers seemingly shunning the system. A glance at the release lists reveals absolutely no third-party …
The sinister looking characters aside, EA’s Boom Blox for Wii is apparently very good, scoring a respectable 9/10 from GamesRadar earlier this week. Speed Racer has been getting some respectable review scores too, which is surprising given it’s a movie license. Then again, it’s by the people behind the cult classic Gripshift, so perhaps that …
Can you imagine this: a game for the Nintendo DS, made up of short mini-games, which you’re supposed to play for a little while every day in order to improve some faculty? It’s an original idea the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Except of course I’m lying. There are approximately as many brain …
The charts are in for last week – GTA IV sold a crazy 926,000 copies in five days, with an estimated 609,000 of those being sold on launch day. Wii Fit has dropped down to #2, followed by Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Wii Play (yes, it’s still selling) and Mario Kart Wii. …
Wii Fit is making the press again, but this time in a bad light. It’s all to do with a 10 year old girl who was apparently traumatised after the game told her that she’s overweight. “She was devastated to be called fat,” a family member said over at DISBoards. “We had to work hard …
Whereas Nintendo have let their sprightly mascots settle their differences with a spot of fisticuffs in the Super Smash Bros series, Sega have instead opted for a friendly game of tennis. The term ‘superstars’ is pushing it a bit though. Sure, everybody knows who Sonic and Tails are but Gum from Jet Set Radio? Ulala …
Press releases can be a great source of both amusement and depression. This month, vaguely game related FpsBrain takes the cake and rams it up the anal cavity of our soul. Why exactly? Because FpsBrain – the drink that claims to increase your mental powers for gaming performance (kind of like Red Bull, but made …
Patapon is like Space Channel 5 all over again. It looks pretty groovy, and yeah, it’s rhythm action, but it’ll be fine. Then I play it. And I remember how shit I am at rhythm action games. Actually, it’s worse than that: it’s also like Advance Wars all over again. I have absolutely no patience …
Why not spend this bank holiday Monday going on an adventure? An adventure with a chap from Games Radar, as he attempts to untangle fifteen years of tangled up controllers and various other videogame cables. It’s one of the more original features to pop up on the internet recently. Or maybe the most pointless. You …
