Sod Boxing Day – pretty much all of the sales are now go, both online and across the cold high streets of England. Over at Game, Yakuza on PlayStation 2 is £9.98, bizarre music/RPG thing Steambot Chronicles is £14.98, X-Men III on DS is £7.98 – although we can’t remember if it’s any good or …
Hurrah! Hurrah! Not one but two new animal nurturing games are available on Nintendo DS today – Hamsterz (known as Hamsterz Life in the US) and My Animal Hospital In Africa. The latter is the first Nintendo DS game from Europress, whose last console game, from what we can ascertain, was that awful Smarties thing …
What is up, vanilla faces? I’m Forty Nine Pence, the numero uno aficionado of the great rap luminary 50 Cent, or Good Sir Fiddy as his home lads say. Today I intend to proclaim the virtues of Fiddy’s new game, specifically G Unit Edition for the PSP. Now just let me doff my cap and …
Carmageddon may have been sadistically violent but there was still a solid game under the blood stained exterior. This was mainly due to the way that races could be won in a number of ways – either by coming first, destroying the opposition or killing all the pedestrians (infamously turned into zombies for the console …
Europe had to wait bloody AGES until the PlayStation 2 Sega AGES 2500 retro revamps made their way over here. When they finally did they were bundled together – which is a good thing – but some of the more interesting games (like Alien Syndrome and Panzer Dragoon) were missing. Which is a bad thing. …
Because it’s nearly Christmas, let’s stop messing around and descend into open criticism of another website. It’s what Jesus would have wanted. MCV is a respected UK trade publication, but this news item about Sony expecting to sell 1 million PSPs really is quite a piece of work. The fact is that the PSP has …
There have been fully fledged darts games in the past – mostly on 8-bit tape-based formats such as the Spectrum – but we can only think of darts mini-games in recent times. Shenmue II had a cracking dart-based distraction, in which Ryo’s throwing hand shook in an alarming manner. With Shenmue III possibly never to …
There was a time when high street stores started their sales on Boxing Day and not a day before, but for the second year running big red sale signs have started to appear in windows a whole week in advance of the big day. Blockbuster were first on the high street to start their sale, …
The delayed Forecast Channel is now – NOW! – available on British Wiis. And quite possibly elsewhere, I’m not sure. It’s got forecasts for a decent selection of towns and cities. By which I mean it’s got Swindon and Reading, which were all I looked for. But that’s not very interesting, is it? What is …
LocoRoco didn’t sell as well as it ought to have, but Phil Harrison claims that we haven’t seen the last of the colourful blobs. We kind of knew this already though – a Christmas themed demo appeared on Your PSP just last week. “We’re continuing to evolve the franchise… We’re going to bring LocoRoco back …
One week on from release and Zelda is out of the top 10. It entered at #5, now it’s down to #12. The only other Wii-exclusive in the charts is Wii Play, which has dropped from #9 all the way down to #30. Blame the lack of Wiis on shelves. Predictability Zelda goes in at …
This week’s achievements in the field of selling an article in a few words. » PS3 problems resolved – Sony A bold claim indeed. But Eurogamer’s headline doesn’t tell quite the whole story: it’s the manufacturing problems which have been resolved. So not the chronic lack of interesting games, the ludicrous price, the stupid Spider-Man …
Nintendo: We’re offering to replace Wii remote wrist straps with thicker, more secure ones. The press: Nintendo recall 3.2 million consoles one week after launch! The press are idiots. But seriously, if you’re worried about having any accidents like these you can e-mail Nintendo at wiiwriststrap@codestorm.co.uk or call 0870 6060247 to arrange a free replacement. …
There aren’t many puzzle games with plots attached, but with We Love Katamari publishers Bandai Namco behind this new DS block shifter, a suitably wacky one was always to be expected. We’ve been playing a Japanese copy and from what we can ascertain it involves a man with a head so big that it takes …
In the past Nintendo hardware has always been demonstrated with Nintendo’s own software. Super Mario World, F-Zero and Pilot Wings on the SNES; Mario 64 and the canned Kirby Bowl on the Nintendo 64; the Luigi’s Mansion and Meowth’s Party tech demos on the GameCube. It was a little bizarre, then, to see Nintendo showing …
