The first thing we noticed in this puzzle game remake is that there’s no tutorial. It doesn’t take long to realise why though: like all decent puzzlers, it’s so easy to pick up that it doesn’t need one. Another possible reason is that Namco Bandai assumed that everyone played the original Gunpey – although that …
165,000 is certainly more PlayStation 3s than I expected to be sold in the UK this past weekend. It’s remains too expensive given the lack of essential titles, but I have to hand it to Sony, it has sold well. Indeed, it’s the UK’s fastest selling home console ever (EVER!), ahead of the Wii’s 105,000, …
It’s depressing how effective marketing is on me at the best of times, but when it still has influence after fifteen years, there has to be something wrong. That’s right, I only bought Kid Icarus from the Wii Shopping Channel because it appeared in Captain N: The Game Master, the probably rubbish Nintendo-based cartoon of …
It’s not all doom and gloom for Sony. The PlayStation 3 is doing some good in the world, thanks to Folding@Home. Folding@Home is distributed computing software, designed to put your computer’s idle processor time towards protein folding simulations. The idea is that it will help scientists better understand proteins, and perhaps one day help contribute …
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 …
