There’s another game based on World War II out this week, but it’s not a first person shooter or even an RTS – it’s a new Castlevania for Nintendo DS. It’s still based on the resurrection of Dracula, only now there are zombie soldiers to contend with. Reviews suggest that it’s pretty decent, although not …
If the term Web 2.0 isn’t enough to make you want to shove your fist in a blender, then beat yourself around the head with the blender just to make sure, then try Sony’s new favourite phrase, introduced at GDC: Game 3.0. They just want to be hated, don’t they? It’s about user-generated content and …
Sony’s Phil Harrison gave a keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference today. But that’s not at all interesting. What is more worthy of mention, is the announcement of LittleBigPlanet, a lovely looking new PlayStation 3 game. Cream over the trailer. Made by Media Molecule, the creators of Rag Doll Kung Fu, it shares that …
Sega are running a poll on their website to discover which of their franchises gamers would most like to see make a return. So far almost 5,000 people have responded, with NiGHTS well in the lead with a nice 55 per cent. Streets of Rage follows with 23 per cent, then it’s Samba de Amigo …
Colour me confused: Ubisoft will be releasing the legendary Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game on Xbox Live Arcade this month for a handsome 400 points (around £3.60). You know, the one that was released by Konami, who still own the Turtles cartoon license. Which is what the arcade game was based on. Digital Eclipse …
The Game Developers Conference started today in San Francisco. As far as I can gather, the exciting news so far is a 512MB Memory Unit for Xbox 360, an increase to 150MB for the size limit on Xbox Live Arcade games, and vague details of Nokia’s N-Gage plans. There’s a whole week of this. Let’s …
My, wasn’t Matt confident that Sonic and the Secret Rings would make the top ten? He was bloody right as well: it’s the second highest entry, at a perfectly respectable #5. Meanwhile some Sims thing at #3 is the highest, leaving Crackdown and Final Fantasy XII at #2 and #1 respectively. Ghost Rider – which …
It used to be a gentle pleasure to watch non-gaming idiots play racing games, leaning from side to side and rotating the controller as if it’s going to do anything. But now gaming has caught up with human intuition. This is Excite Truck, and it’s bloody wonderful. In fact, it’s the best thing on the …
Much like Vanguard, you should consider this review unfinished. Which isn’t just to say that Vanguard is an evolving game, but that is was quite literally released in an unfinished state. Developer’s Sigil had a furious accountant held to their heads, and after almost five years of development, it was decided they should just released …
Warhawk on PlayStation 3 may have been a good demonstration of the new tilty controller, but it wasn’t exactly a good demonstration of the PlayStation 3. Sure, having dozens of enemy aircraft on the screen at once is kind of impressive, but it’s nothing special. In short: it wasn’t looking very ‘next gen’, and it …
If you can’t tell from the shots and the name, it’s another one from Lumines and Meteos developers Q Entertainment that resembles the inside of an acid junkie’s head. This isn’t a block sorting puzzler though. In fact it has more in common with Rez, the seminal psychedelic shooter from Q Entertainment’s own Tetsuya Mizuguchi. …
Sonic and the Secret Rings will undoubtedly get into the top ten next week, but it might struggle to knock Final Fantasy XII off the top spot. Sonic and the Secret Rings is a really rubbish name, isn’t it? The original title – Sonic Wild Fire – was much nicer. If a new Final Fantasy …
Namco Bandai have snapped up a Wii-exclusive sequel to obscure Xbox Live Arcade management sim Outpost Kaloki X. Developers Wahoo are keen to stress that although they look the same, it’s not a conversion but rather a fully-fledged project built for Wii. The story in Space Station Tycoon involves Shawn and his monkey Tam, who …
Battlestations: Midway unexpectedly (at least to us) flew to the top of the charts, which proved (again, to us) that there’s a bigger demand for air combat sims than anybody (we) realised. Luckily for fans of the genre, there’s another around the corner in the form of Heatseeker. Notably it’ll be Codemasters’ first game for …
One of the biggest complaints aimed at the Wii thus far is that too many publishers are pushing out half-arsed conversions of PlayStation 2 titles. Sadly, this isn’t going to improve any time soon, as budget developers Data Design Interactive are re-releasing twelve of their PlayStation 2 efforts, including platfomrer Ninjabread Man, broomstick racer Billy …
