Bioware’s Sonic RPG for Nintendo DS isn’t a secret – it was first announced back in June – but so little has been heard of it since that many thought it had been canned. Not so: it’s on the cover of this month’s Nintendo Power magazine, complete with a fat pack of details and screens. …
Just before Christmas a few details were revealed about Tomb Raider Underworld – the first proper next-gen Tomb Raider. Moot points included fancy new motion capture animation, dynamic lighting systems, damageable environments, visual lighting and more detail than ever before – Lara’s clothes become dirtier and foot prints are left in her path. Eidos also …
This week’s game would be a fairer description, with only Buzz: The Schools Quiz on PlayStation 2 making it out onto shelves. Back in my childhood the only game I got to play at school was some educational thing about bubonic plague on the school’s BBC Micro. Showing my age there, perhaps. Next week looks …
That headline is slightly misleading, although Namco Bandai have unveiled a secret that nobody could have predicted – Yoda and Darth Vadar are lined-up to appear in Soul Calibur IV. PlayStation 3 gets Darth “Noooo!” Vader, while Xbox 360 gets elderly Kermit. So from the sound of it the two won’t be able to face …
Not many people understood the concept of Rez, and in just “a few weeks time” even more people will be clueless as to what goes on in Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s mind. Why? Because “a few weeks time” is the rough date Sega have given for the appearance of Rez HD on Xbox Live Arcade. The price …
For a second week running Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has been sold out across the country, which explains why – again for the second week running – it’s no longer in the chart. FIFA 08 is back on top though, knocking former #1 Assassin’s Creed to #4. The Golden Compass has moved …
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but for the past week Xbox Live hasn’t really been working. It cuts out and hangs up and generally causes a kerfuffle. A spokesperson for Microsoft blamed all the outages on a large number new sign-ups over the Christmas period. In fact, December saw the most concurrent members ever …
The Christmas sales have managed to shake the chart up at bit, although it’s the usual lot sticking around the top ten – Assassin’s Creed at #1 again, followed by FIFA 08, Call of Duty 4, The Simpsons Game and Need for Speed Pro Street. Guitar Hero III has risen from #12 to #9, while …
A few days before Christmas my Xbox 360 decided to pack up. The blessed thing couldn’t have picked a worse time – I’d just bought Call of Duty 4 and have been looking forward to giving Mass Effect extensive play over the festive period. After hearing the horror stories of Microsoft taking up to five …
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword looks like a safe purchase already, but as an extra incentive to open their wallets US gamers are being offered a pre-order bonus. Not only will they receive a Ninja Gaiden wrist-strap, but also a stylus shaped like a katana sword complete with a sheath. UK retailers don’t seem have the …
…Call of Duty 4. Which isn’t very festive at all, really. But since when has a Christmas #1 had anything remotely Christmassy about it? Probably never. Assassin’s Creed takes second place, followed by The Simpsons Game, FIFA 08 and Need for Speed Pro Street. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games – last week’s #1 …
Just to reiterate what we mentioned last week, this week sees no new releases. Nadda. Well, it’s to be expected with Christmas just a few days away. Some online stores have already started their Christmas/New Year sales, such as play.com and all the other usual suspects. If you’re looking forward to January’s new releases, the …
Adam had a relatively easy job compiling a collection of the best games on the PlayStation Network – the service has only been around for a year and new releases have been sporadic at best. Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade though has been around for nearly twice as long with new releases appearing every Wednesday like …
There are plenty of minigame collections for the Wii, but whether any are truly great is debatable. There’s good reason to have faith in Emergency Mayhem being the definitive party pleaser though – here the minigames are connected by Crazy Taxi-style arcade driving sections, which should give it a fair bit of depth. The name …
When the usually reliable Ubisoft announced that they were going to start doing more movie licenses we first thought that this would be a good thing, and when the slick King Kong tie-in game arrived we thought that it was indeed a very good thing. Then came the distinctly average Open Season, followed by the …
