Yesterday I reported about the European price of Rock Band being a trifle high. Indeed, it’s more than double the price our lovely friends over the pond have to pay. Today Eurogamer ran an interview with Rob Kay, a design director at Harmonix, the creators of Rock Band, and he had a few interesting things …
Puzzles, brain teasers, riddles, conundrums – whatever you want to call them, the inhabitants of the peculiar village of St. Mystere are full of them. In fact, their biggest export is not any type of animal, mineral or vegetable but, as you may have guessed, puzzles. Or whatever you choose to call them. The titular …
For a variety of reasons (laziness, real life, not being bothered) I have quite a few games lying around that I should have reviewed by now. Some I spent a great deal of time playing a few months ago, but never got around to actually writing any words about (such as Assassin’s Creed and FIFA …
An unnamed developer has been talking to MTV about Microsoft’s plans for a Wii-style motion sensitive remote for the Xbox 360, claiming that Rare have been working on such a device since last August. That’ll explain why Viva Pinata: Party Animals was palmed off to Krome Studios. According to their source it looks a lot …
Rock Band is one of the most self explanatory titles in recent history. It’s a rhythm action game where multiple controllers link up to become … a rock band. It’s been one of the biggest games over in the States for a while now, and it’s already sold one and a half million units. It’s …
The other day I was listening to some games journalist go on about games piracy. His view was quite clear; ‘pirates are bad, don’t pirate games you wouldn’t buy, pay for your games or burn in hell scum’. I understand his view, though he like me gets the majority of his games for free via …
We really loved Persona 3. It had a wonderful, unique quality, so I think now is a good time to talk about it’s sequels. The first sequel Persona 3: FES (the FES apparently stands for festival) was released in Japan along with the original game. It’s basically a continuation of the original game, with more …
Occasionally I’ve toyed with the notion of creating a GA podcast. Fortunately I’m too lazy to bother with such an idea and fear that it would end up awful, aside from the lack of a professional recording studio. However, I do enjoy listening to the odd gaming podcast nowadays (and whatever the video ones are …
I only ever played the original Mario Kart on Daniel Johnston’s SNES. He was the kind of delightful child who would play ‘Saturday Night’ by Whigfield every time I went round, knowing full well I hated it. Still, he was called Johnson’s Baby Lotion at school, and that wound him right up. The fact that …
As you can probably tell, the site has changed a little. In part, thanks to a messed up software update, and also just due to our fickle nature. We’ll be trying to restore service to normal over the coming hours and days, albeit with a camp new look, but in the mean time you should …
It doesn’t take much to confuse the internet. Earlier this week Ubisoft announced the Wii-exclusive Emergency Heroes, which looks almost identical to Codemaster’s Wii-exclusive Emergency Mayhem. So much so, in fact, that some websites thought that the game had simply changed publisher… which wouldn’t be the first time seeing as Emergency Mayhem has been on …
Do you know about the Dark Hour? The hidden hour that appears after midnight where normal people turn into coffins and shadows feed off the souls of the lost? Where special agents from SEES (the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad) fight the shadows, summoning up personas to help them in battle and save the world. Personas …
There are only three games out this week if Game are to be believed, and I’m going to believe them even if they aren’t to be believed. So I have no choice but to introduce each of them through the medium of poor quality haiku. Condemned 2 is out PS3 and 360 Sega therefore good …
I really do have a lot of respect for psychologists, but early studies can be a bit of a case of pointing out the bloody obvious. Two studies publicised by the British Psychological Society this week fall firmly into that category, unfortunately. First up, those favourite subjects of online games and violence. People who play …
Yes, well done on coming up with the most irritating name for a Tom Clancy series yet: Tom Clancy’s HAWX. It’s meaningful though, honest! It’s short for ‘High-Altitude Warfare’. And, er, ‘Xanadu’, probably. Yeah, it’s set in 13th century Mongolia. That’s definitely it. At least it’s an air combat game, so is likely to be …
