Raaaaaaaaaah!
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.
Filled with fat
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 …
Boogie
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 …
The Orange Box
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 …
Drake’s Fortune on PSN Store
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 …
When men in masks attack
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 …
The Day’s News
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 …
Ian Beale – The next Master Chief?
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 …
Grey matter
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 …
New Need for Speed hits the pits
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 …
Spyro: The Eternal Night
No, that isn’t a typing error – we’ve been sent a brand new Game Boy Advance game to review. We’re as surprised as you (probably) are, as there hasn’t been any new releases of note for months and even Nintendo themselves dropped the handheld like a radioactive potato. But if Sierra wants to continue supporting …
Crash of the Titans
Arguably the success of Crash Bandicoot can be pinned on the marsupial turning up in the right place at the right time. The PSone had just had a price drop and started to appeal to younger gamers, and with Super Mario 64 still proving popular Sony wanted their own platformer to flaunt. Let’s be fair …
Bart to the future
Why did nobody tell us that there was a Telly Addicts game for the DS? Game has no details about it whatsoever, but Amazon has some lovely Noel Edmonds box-art. There’s a load of other DS games out this week too including Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, CSI, The Simpsons – which comes on the largest …
Span the boundaries
Read this: “our upcoming product will deliver an experience that will span the traditional boundaries of video game entertainment.” Span the boundaries? Surely that doesn’t really make sense. But hey: it sounds like it might mean something, and that’s good enough for a press release. A press release announcing almost nothing, anyway. What almost nothing? …
EA must be told
EA have announced the full song list for ridiculous peripheral-fest Rock Band. And it’s fine – good, even. ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ by The Ramones: excellent. And what’s that? A Pixies track? Sterling work, EA. Except the line-up has been split helpfully into decades, and ‘Wave of Mutilation’ is filed under “2000s”. That’ll be a track off …
