Nintendo are good at spotting potential in a game. Take Chibi-Robo: Bandai were originally at the helm, and it was shaping up to be a bit of a mess, with crude-looking, predominantly brown environments. In stepped Nintendo, who gave it a bigger budget, a load of polish and a lot of love, the end result …
Xbox Live is five years old, and to celebrate they’re giving out some free stuff. Good for them. If you’re a current Live subscriber you can download Carcassonne for free, that is if you’re quick enough to snap it up between 12.01am on the the 15th and and midnight on the 16th. Even better, if …
It’s war not raw: Call of Duty 4 is the highest new entry at #1, followed closely by WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2008 at #2. The Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty 4 becomes the second fastest selling title on the format, behind only Halo 3. Honestly, why does anyone bother releasing anything but …
Forget all about Super Mario Galaxy – Blast Entertainment have announced that their Mr Bean platformer will be available from 30th November. It doesn’t look that bad visually – the characters in the cartoons series were drawn with thick outlines, which the developers have managed to incorporate into the cel-shading. It’s another ruddy collect ‘em …
EA recently said that they were going to pull their socks up when it comes to DS development, and you can’t argue with the effort they’ve put into this. It comes on the largest DS cart available, contains over twenty minutes of FMV, some 3,000 speech samples, a virtual Homer to play with and a …
Play are offering a nifty free Rabbids hand puppet with Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 on Wii. It’s a bit more appealing than the pack of four art cards they’re giving away with Assassin’s Creed, anyway.
The infamous Burger King Xbox 360 games may not have made it outside of the US, but the Viva Pinata toys – which made an appearance in the US last month – are now being given away ‘free’ with kids club meals at UK-based artery clogging outlets. Each of the eight characters contains a surprise …
Everyone loves the Wii, right? And what could be more fun than singing and dancing? With the possible exception of ridding the world of June Sarpong through an elaborate machine-o-death, nothing. So Boogie – a singing and dancing game for the Wii – should be one of the funnest (shut up, it’s a perfectly good …
Retro collections are a pain to stick a score to. There’s usually one or two, maybe three if you’re lucky, great games that stand the test of time along with half a dozen that only entertain for literally seconds. It’s funny then, that all of the five games in The Orange Box have their faults …
If you’ve got an account with the US PlayStation Store (and there’s no reason why you can’t just sign up), then you might want to head over and download the new demo of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for the PS3. It’s really very, very good – a cross between Tomb Raider and The Getaway (but less …
I’m not sure what’s going on with Game’s ‘new release’ section – the only version of Call of Duty 4 they list as available from today is the DS one, while last month they totally forgot about PES 2008. It definitely is out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 though, and well done to Activision …
Sony have announced a new PS2. If you consider making the console a tiny fraction slimmer and putting the power supply in the box to be new, that is. It’ll launch later this month in Japan and in the new year in America, but no details were given on a European launch. Either way, there’s …
If Ubisoft doing a Telly Addicts game wasn’t a surprise and a half, then news of Eidos bagging the Eastenders rights is surely a bolt from the blue. MCV speculate that their casual games division – who usually work on mobile and DS titles – have been handed the rights. It’s likely to be some …
Was there a massive backlog of DS systems shipped to retailers last week? Both the Brain Training games have jumped back into the top 10, you see – More Brain Training is at #8 up from #14, while the original is at #9 up from #12. They’re both even outselling Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, which has …
The latest issue of the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine – which features Sega Superstars Tennis on the front cover, oddly enough – contains an unbelievably negative preview of Need for Speed: ProStreet. In the first paragraph alone they claim it to be the “worst game in the seriesâ€, although the preview does read as if …
