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Are beat ’em ups back? I’ve not used that term in ages. Beat ’em up. Brilliant. Once one of the busiest genres, these days we’re pretty much left with Tekken, Virtua Fighter and Soulcalibur. It makes me wonder whether video game genres are subject to boom and bust, much like the economy. Ten years from …

Unleash your inner sinner

This Week's Games

This Week’s Games So, Saints Row 2 has turned out to be pretty good. Early previews suggested that the developers had gone down the twisted and brutal path by turning up the violence, but from the looks of things in the last few months of development they’ve had a change of heart and turned it …

Bricking it

UK Charts

UK Chart Last week not one but two NBA games were released. It’s slightly interesting to see that in the Xbox 360 chart Take 2’s NBA 2K9 has outsold EA’s NBA Live 09, whereas in the PlayStation 3 chart it’s the other way around. And by the word interesting, I mean not very interesting. At …

Are you intrepid?

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Has London Games Festival – kicking off later this month – got it right now? Take Video Games Live – a performance of video game music by co-creators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, and the English Chamber Orchestra. That’s proper, real life classical musicians right there. It’s at the Royal Festival Hall, but tickets are …

Thought of the day #476

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Does Bomberman ever have trouble getting through airport security?

Life in plastic, it’s fantastic

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This Week’s Games Lego Batman is this week’s big game, available on all formats. Game are giving away a free keyring (a Lego Batman, unsurprisingly), with the PSP and PlayStation 2 versions available for a nice Â£19.99 each. Anybody want to guess what the next Lego game will be? I would say Harry Potter or …

Scrooges snaffle Sainsbury’s stock

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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

UK Charts

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 …

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