EA Playground is another collection of mini-games for the Wii (and Nintendo DS), but this time based on playground games. You’d already guessed that, hadn’t you? Games mentioned so far include tetherball (swing the Wii remote), spitballs (blow into the DS mic) and dodgeball. It’s all sounding a bit American, but being developed at EA …
There are certain shocking gaps in my gaming CV, and the Katamari games make up one of those holes o’ shame. The 3D Grand Theft Autos – there’s another. I own them – indeed I can see them right now – but sheer bone idleness has got in the way. This is going somewhere, if …
Forza Motorsport 2’s still at #1, and it’s still followed by Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. It’s all down to Colin McRae: DiRT, new at #4, to invigorate the chart. Codemasters might be a bit disappointed with that, but it’s only out on Xbox 360 and PC, and with …
The front cover for this brain bender features a silhouette of Sherlock Holmes, presumably because if the DS had been around during Sherlock’s lifetime then he’d get stuck into Slitherlink instead of trying to catch Jack the Ripper and having his way with Watson. It’s elementary, dear reader. Let’s bring you up to speed with …
This week’s big release is the oddly capitalised Colin McRae: DiRT, giving PC and 360 owners a reason to be cheerful. It looks bloody lovely, so if you like arcade-style muddy rally games, feel free to spend money on it. If you’re in the US it’s just called DiRT or something like that, whilst some …
I’ve only just come to properly appreciate the Wii’s Mii builder. Everyone loves making their own Mii: it’s sufficiently flexible, but streamlined enough to keep even the most impatient idiot interested. I’d love to know how much time was spent tweaking the available options to reach that near-perfect balance. In fact, some Nintendo bod has …
Summer means slow release season, and with a big Xbox 360 release it can only mean one thing: this week it’s all about Forza Motorsport 2. For the record, it’s the third fastest selling 360 game (behind Gears of War and PES6) and the fourth fastest selling overall this year. And yes, it’s this week’s …
Codemasters usually stick to their sports games, racing titles and incredibly belated Dirty Dancing tie-ins, so the hard to define Overlord is a break from the norm for them. We’ll have a stab at trying to define it though – take Pikmin’s safety in numbers/little helper theme, give it an evil twist with a warped …
A new trailer for Harvest Moon on Wii has been doing the rounds this week. You can click on this link and see if for yourself but we’d rather you’d read the next paragraph to see how slow some of the bigger websites out there are. That’s slow as in dim, not slow as in …
Not content with upsetting animal rights campaigners with the God of War II dead goat fiasco, Sony have managed to upset the Church of England by featuring Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man allegedly without permission. The Church has demanded an apology and for Resistance to be taken off shelves, otherwise legal action will …
There’s one big game release this week – Forza Motorsport 2 on the Xbox 360. We’re of two minds about this – on the one hand, it looks like a dull racing game that doesn’t seem much different to the old Xbox version. On the other hand, UK:R really like it, so it can’t be …
They Came from the Skies is a brilliantly titled upcoming PlayStation 2 budget effort from the purse-pleasing chaps at Midas. A quick trawl of Goggle fails to bring up even the tiniest jot of information – although Amazon do kindly point out that it’s a videogame – but going by the name alone we’re sold …
In its second week of release, the lacklustre Pirates of the Caribbean has managed to take the top spot of the chart. Darling Lara has to make to with entering at #2, with Spider-Man 3 down to third place. Shadowrun – which still hasn’t been reviewed by most websites – is in at a surprisingly …
It’s quite unusual that EA hasn’t “blessed” the 360 with a Medal of Honor game yet, especially when you consider that MoH: Vanguard was released on Wii just three months after the system reached Europe. But when MoH: Airbourne does finally reach Microsoft’s box, it will face competition not only from Activision’s competent Call of …
There’s nothing games websites like more than telling us things that aren’t going to happen, be it to debunk a rumour on a rival site, or apropos of nothing. They just love it! This, then, is the week in not news. » Eurogamer’s had an exceptional week of not news. We had the new Wolfenstein …
