In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Sony’s UK managing director Ray Maguire spouts assorted excuses for the high cost of the PlayStation 3 in Europe. Ray Maguire says: “The cost of retail is vastly more in the UK than it is in the US and that’s before you even stop to consider the US doesn’t have …
Nintendo didn’t resort to childish (yet amusing) willy waving for the European PlayStation 3 launch, which left the door open for Microsoft to put the boot in. Over at London’s Virgin Megastore PlayStation 3 camp-out, marketing men handed out folding chairs emblazoned with shkyw.org (Shouldn’t Have Kept You Waiting), while UK journalists were sent 168 …
Johnny Blaze – he’s a bit angst ridden and has a flaming skull for a head. Not your average superhero, that’s for sure, but he’s not the lamest. That award goes to Batman, who has absolutely no super powers at all – his camp yellow utility belt and ability to look rather dashing in lycra …
If you’ve managed to re-mortgage your house to buy a PlayStation 3 this week then you’ll no doubt want some games to go with it. Some of the proposed launch titles have been pushed back a couple of weeks – F.E.A.R, Oblivion and Splinter Cell: Double Agent of note – but there’s still plenty to …
Sony are already applying liberal pre-emptive spin to the impending UK PlayStation 3 launch, saying that not selling out on pre-orders will mean they got it right. Nevertheless, come Monday they’ll surely want some snappy factlet for journalists to hang their stories on. Obviously the best one would be record-breaking launch weekend sales, but if …
The Metopolitan Police have advised both Game and HMV in Oxford Street to cancel their midnight PlayStation 3 launches in fear of customer safety. With the recent spate of gun crime in London it’s probably for the best – I can remember being leered at by jealous types when carrying a shiny new Nintendo 64 …
Further proof that the PlayStation 3 isn’t doing so well: Devil May Cry 4 will launch simultaneously on Xbox 360 later this year, while an unspecified Japanese Magazine has managed to the get the scoop on Ace Combat 6 for Microsoft’s box. The magazine in question doesn’t even mention a PlayStation 3 version. What’s interesting …
If you’d bought 200 copies of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 last week, it would be #1 this week, and not Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. I am of course making the assumption that you didn’t buy 200 copies of that game last week. I hope you didn’t. It would have been a silly …
Can you think of a better Wii game to appeal to older gamers than an Agatha Christie murder mystery? Nor can I, although a bingo sim would probably go down well at old folk’s homes across the globe. The Adventure Company are bringing And Then There Were None over from PC, but rather than a …
Video game related bargains have been covered on these hallowed pages many times, but here’s something that can only be described as a reverse bargain. Choices are doing Pimp My Ride on Xbox 360 for ‘only’ £9.99 when trading in any three Xbox 360 games. That’s three games that you probably paid a fair bit …
It would appear that Sega’s eminent NiGHTS into Dreams is about to make a comeback on an unspecified Nintendo platform, although there’s no word if it’ll be a remake, sequel or something entirely different. Let’s not rule out a Virtual Console download either. This news comes from the latest issue of The Official Nintendo Magazine …
Like tuna and jam, Sonic and the third dimension don’t mix well. Sonic Adventure scored highly when first released, but arguably because we didn’t know any better back then. Sonic Heroes was ruined by uncontrollable but essential homing attacks, while Shadow the Hedgehog was just plain wrong. Yet it wasn’t always this way – Sonic …
Although some of the games on Sega’s recent Mega Drive retro collection are approaching fifteen years old, a handful – such as Ristar, Comix Zone and Sonic – still look quite alluring. On this 40 plus collection, however, the blocky graphics make Teletext’s pixel art look like the Mona Lisa. Predictably, you have to do …
It sounds like a good idea for Comic Relief to make Red Noses (and t-shirts) available to buy in online world Second Life. But what I’d really like to know, after the event, is how many they’ve sold. Because I genuinely can’t even take a guess, mainly because I don’t have anything to compare it …
It’s not clear if you can get your head shaved by a jumbo jet in SSX Blur on Wii, but there’s a fair chance you can – the SSX games always have a pleasing nonsensical twist. There are another four games out on Wii this week too – Rapala: Tournament Fishing, World Series of Poker, …
