Copper Man

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 …

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Is the PSP party over already?

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 …

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Shake, shake, shake the room

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 …

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Ninja Reflex

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 …

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Crime time

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. …

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I’m just big boned

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 …

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Sega Superstars Tennis

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 …

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Thinly veiled PR stunt of the month

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 …

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History repeating

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 …

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The cable guy

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 …

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Bored games

Everybody is playing GTA IV, so just two games are making their appearance this week. Even Microsoft felt it was pointless releasing a new Xbox Live Arcade game with people busy stabbing tramps and shooting pigeons. There are though a couple of cheat save disks for GTA IV out if you’re into that type of …

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GTA making headlines

As expected, Grand Theft Auto IV is breaking records and making headlines on its launch. In the UK alone, it sold 609,000 copies on launch day, making it the fastest selling game in the UK (a 20% sales increase over GTA: San Andreas). It’s expected to sell around 6 million copies worldwide in the first …

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Salad dodgers make Nintendo happy

Wii Fit has proven to be a bit of a success story – it has gone straight to the top of the chart, and by doing so has become the 6th fastest selling UK release. Chart Track reports that already 1 in 10 Wii owners have splashed out £69.99 for the device and game, while …

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In the mood for some hooker-beating

So, Grand Theft Auto IV is just a day away (unless you managed to get a copy early). Suddenly I’m starting to feel a little bit excited – the big games sites have published their reviews (10/10s all round), and some juicy gameplay videos have started appearing online. Here is one such video;

Water mess

Imagine Babies. The name alone prompted sniggers from juvenile internet types, but when the full game arrived in stores Ubisoft found it getting a lot of press coverage and all for the wrong reasons – the boxart featured a watermark from the photo site iStockPhoto. Apparently it would have only cost a mere $12 to …

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