Dozens of XII

Becoming the fastest selling game in the series, and taking more than half of the week’s full price PlayStation 2 software sales, Final Fantasy XII inevitably tops the chart. Crackdown is #2 though, and the fourth fastest selling Xbox 360 title to date. There might be budget PC toss on GDL’s Grabbit label swarming over …

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Mellow yellow

The Behemoth obviously haven’t finished their four-player medieval brawler Castle Crashers yet, as it has been announced that this Wednesday’s Xbox Live Arcade release is Metal Slug-style shooter Alien Hominid HD, for 800 points (£6.80). Thanks to the awfully helpful Microsoft Points Converter for doing the math(s). In the US, Alien Hominid was only released …

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Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony

We’ve seen what Take-Two have done here and we approve. That is, release Throne of Agony well before Uwe Boll’s silver screen take on Dungeon Siege comes out. If you’re thinking, “But why do that and miss out on the extra publicity?” then you obvious don’t know who Uwe Boll is. We’re in RPG hack …

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That’s enough now, thanks

Here’s some news to ruin your weekend: we’re in for at least another five years – that’s five years – of Crazy Frog games. Over one million idiots have bought the dire Crazy Frog Racer games so far. And each and every one deserves to be hit in the head with a rusty hammer. The …

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We’re living in a materia world

If our visitor numbers are down this weekend I’ll put it down to Final Fantasy XII and Crackdown both being released today. I’ve played through the demo of Crackdown a few times and it seems like good fun, especially once your explosive skills have been upgraded a few times. As I understand it, Final Fantasy …

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There are still GameCubes to shift

It’s not often that I’m impressed by the standard of game-related interviews, but GameDaily BIZ did an excellent job of making Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan flap about on the floor, attempting to convince anyone that the GameCube might still be worth buying. It’s all in this quote: “Are we producing any more GameCubes? No. But do …

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Mazes of Fate

You’re forgiven if you hadn’t heard of Mazes of Fate before. It’s a US only release at present, has been put together by a small unknown developer based in Argentina, and appears to have had only a small print run. It’s odd that there hasn’t been much coverage of it though, as not only is …

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Supermarket sweep

Asda started selling DVD players – region free ones, no less – for a pathetic £9 a few weeks back, and now in another move to shake up their electrical section, from tomorrow they’ll be selling slimline PlayStation 2 consoles for £49. Posters have already gone up in stores, pointing out that the offer is …

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Trademarks are still fun

A few years ago, the US Patent and Trademark Office website was a great place to uncover games before they were announced. But companies have pretty much stopped trademarking titles before announcing them, to stop us from having fun searching the database. But fuck the man, we can still have fun with the USPTO. We …

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Just like Christmas

Little Britain is not #1. That’s the good news. It is #5 though. Meanwhile FIFA is back up to the top of the chart, with Need for Speed and Pro Evo not far behind. Last week’s #1, Battlestations: Midway, is down to a slightly rubbish #7. The highest new entry is some PC thing called …

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Wii: bringer of truth

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 …

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The week in PlayStation 3

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,” …

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THQ squeeze out some more Juice(d)

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 …

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Sticks and stones

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. …

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Slam dunk the funk

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 …

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