Sonic and the Secret Rings will undoubtedly get into the top ten next week, but it might struggle to knock Final Fantasy XII off the top spot. Sonic and the Secret Rings is a really rubbish name, isn’t it? The original title – Sonic Wild Fire – was much nicer. If a new Final Fantasy …
Namco Bandai have snapped up a Wii-exclusive sequel to obscure Xbox Live Arcade management sim Outpost Kaloki X. Developers Wahoo are keen to stress that although they look the same, it’s not a conversion but rather a fully-fledged project built for Wii. The story in Space Station Tycoon involves Shawn and his monkey Tam, who …
Battlestations: Midway unexpectedly (at least to us) flew to the top of the charts, which proved (again, to us) that there’s a bigger demand for air combat sims than anybody (we) realised. Luckily for fans of the genre, there’s another around the corner in the form of Heatseeker. Notably it’ll be Codemasters’ first game for …
One of the biggest complaints aimed at the Wii thus far is that too many publishers are pushing out half-arsed conversions of PlayStation 2 titles. Sadly, this isn’t going to improve any time soon, as budget developers Data Design Interactive are re-releasing twelve of their PlayStation 2 efforts, including platfomrer Ninjabread Man, broomstick racer Billy …
Becoming the fastest selling game in the series, and taking more than half of the week’s full price PlayStation 2 software sales, Final Fantasy XII inevitably tops the chart. Crackdown is #2 though, and the fourth fastest selling Xbox 360 title to date. There might be budget PC toss on GDL’s Grabbit label swarming over …
The Behemoth obviously haven’t finished their four-player medieval brawler Castle Crashers yet, as it has been announced that this Wednesday’s Xbox Live Arcade release is Metal Slug-style shooter Alien Hominid HD, for 800 points (£6.80). Thanks to the awfully helpful Microsoft Points Converter for doing the math(s). In the US, Alien Hominid was only released …
We’ve seen what Take-Two have done here and we approve. That is, release Throne of Agony well before Uwe Boll’s silver screen take on Dungeon Siege comes out. If you’re thinking, “But why do that and miss out on the extra publicity?†then you obvious don’t know who Uwe Boll is. We’re in RPG hack …
Here’s some news to ruin your weekend: we’re in for at least another five years – that’s five years – of Crazy Frog games. Over one million idiots have bought the dire Crazy Frog Racer games so far. And each and every one deserves to be hit in the head with a rusty hammer. The …
If our visitor numbers are down this weekend I’ll put it down to Final Fantasy XII and Crackdown both being released today. I’ve played through the demo of Crackdown a few times and it seems like good fun, especially once your explosive skills have been upgraded a few times. As I understand it, Final Fantasy …
It’s not often that I’m impressed by the standard of game-related interviews, but GameDaily BIZ did an excellent job of making Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan flap about on the floor, attempting to convince anyone that the GameCube might still be worth buying. It’s all in this quote: “Are we producing any more GameCubes? No. But do …
You’re forgiven if you hadn’t heard of Mazes of Fate before. It’s a US only release at present, has been put together by a small unknown developer based in Argentina, and appears to have had only a small print run. It’s odd that there hasn’t been much coverage of it though, as not only is …
Asda started selling DVD players – region free ones, no less – for a pathetic £9 a few weeks back, and now in another move to shake up their electrical section, from tomorrow they’ll be selling slimline PlayStation 2 consoles for £49. Posters have already gone up in stores, pointing out that the offer is …
A few years ago, the US Patent and Trademark Office website was a great place to uncover games before they were announced. But companies have pretty much stopped trademarking titles before announcing them, to stop us from having fun searching the database. But fuck the man, we can still have fun with the USPTO. We …
Little Britain is not #1. That’s the good news. It is #5 though. Meanwhile FIFA is back up to the top of the chart, with Need for Speed and Pro Evo not far behind. Last week’s #1, Battlestations: Midway, is down to a slightly rubbish #7. The highest new entry is some PC thing called …
Wednesday saw the launch of the Wii Everybody Votes Channel. You should be able to work out what it does from the name, but for the hard of thinking, it lets every Wii user vote in a number of simple surveys, both nationally and worldwide. Already it has had a more profound affect on the …
