Wednesday saw the launch of the Wii Everybody Votes Channel. You should be able to work out what it does from the name, but for the hard of thinking, it lets every Wii user vote in a number of simple surveys, both nationally and worldwide. Already it has had a more profound affect on the …
It’s hard not to enjoy watching the PlayStation 3 story develop, and there’s been plenty happening this week. Let’s play catch up. 1UP spoke to Phil Harrison. “We’re not going to slate our lineup,” he said. No, there’s no need to, everyone else is doing it for you. “We’ll continue to plow our own furrow,” …
360 Gamer has been granted the first look at Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights. You can’t make out the magazine logo in the grab to the right, as they’ve made it nice and shiny this month, possibly to celebrate their exclusive. I like shiny. The subtitle originates from the infamous auto show that travels around …
Mogitate Chinkuru no Barairo RuppÄ«rando – most commonly translated as Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rose-Colored Rupee Land – is being released in Europe in March under the guise of Freshly Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland. Good work, Nintendo! But wait! The perfectly fine Kirby Squeak Squad is being renamed to the painfully dull Kirby Mouse Attack for Europe. …
There were a couple of games out last week which slipped under Game’s release radar: Activision Hits Remixed and Metal Slug Anthology on PSP. If you do a search on their site then neither appear, which is bizarre. Game are usually very reliable though, so we’ll just put it down to last week being an …
Valentines Day would be an odd day to release a new game, would it not? It’s a day when couples are meant to bond (read: get it on) and not play anti-social videogames. But what if the game’s about kissing? Because that’s what Natsume’s Chulip – released in the States yesterday – is all about. …
When Capcom sent out review copies of Killer 7, they included a memo asking critics to be patient with it and not pass judgement on its cel-shaded psychosis alone. Nothing of the sort came with Okami, which suggests that the idea of playing as a wolf charged with the responsibility of restoring colour to a …
If you’ve not noticed, it’s Valentines Day tomorrow. So games rental website Gametart – classy name – have conducted a survey which claims to make it official that women who play games have more sex. I’m not sure that I recall a more cynical, worthless survey. Which makes it hugely appropriate for Valentines Day. Inadvertently …
If you’re anything like me, then you were probably a bit peeved that Datel’s Freeloader – the disc that allowed the GameCube to play games from any region – didn’t work on European Wiis. Approximately three months on from launch, they’ve cracked it: a new Wii compatible version of Freeloader is readily available for £9.99 …
Battlestations: Midway is a new entry at #1 for Eidos, proving yet again that Xbox 360 owners really, really like war. And – cunts alive! – Little Britain is up to #2. Stop now, please. Really. You should be buying the excellent Okami, which enters at a shameful #17. Look: it’s both good and cheap. …
This month’s Edge magazine contains a feature on Gamecock – an unfortunately named upstart publisher which plans to avoid sequels and licenses. The founders – ex-Take 2 employees Mike Wilson and Harry Miller – have five titles on the go at the moment at a variety of studios, some of which have worked on very …
Although this mini-game collection is a purse-pleasing £9.99, has attractive box-art (in respect of use of colour, not style of imagery) and boasts 38 mini-games including ‘Hit the Penguin’ and ‘Noodle Eating Contest’, it’s so beyond poor that not even the super cheap price tag can save it. We’re talking Charlie’s Angels, Universal Studios and …
Capcom’s Okami can probably be classed as art; it’s a water colour painting brought to life on your TV, pretty much. This wasn’t always the case though, as these recently discovered images of the first version show. It looked nice even back then, but this was obviously before the idea of being able to doodle …
Although never mentioned in the same breath as Virtua Fighter, Tekken and Soul Calibur, the Def Jam games have managed to hold their own. This is likely to be down to the fact that they aren’t actually developed by EA in-house, but rather by Japanese developer Yukes, best known for THQ’s WWE games. This goes …
Question: How do you make a game based on a man who’s ‘indestructible’? Answer: Create a racing game based around his vehicles which aren’t. Needless to say, this was also the easiest option for the developers – Brain in a Jar – to take. Destined for bargain bins from the word go, the presentation is …
