The Japanese developers of this Xbox 360 online battler have quite the history. As well as working on 2009’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up for Wii and PlayStation 2, they also had a helping hand on the game that inspired it – Super Smash Bros. Brawl. If this doesn’t make you curious about Happy …
The subtitle for episode four of Telltale’s adventure series refers to the fact that the survivors have finally arrived in the city of Savannah, only to be greeted by more zombies than they could have ever imagined. There really is one around every corner, making this the most action-heavy instalment yet. Don’t expect to be …
It’s crazy to think that there was once doubt about whether Borderlands 2 would happen. The original entered the UK chart at #7 and proved to be a slow and steady seller, very much a game that sold on word of mouth alone. A strong following and a bigger advertising spree helped Borderlands 2 to …
The best games out there are always the ones designed to capture our imaginations. They suck us in with their creativity, and often prove to be so rich with brilliant ideas that those who play them can’t resist singing their praises to other gamers. In 1997 Sonic Team’s NiGHTS into Dreams blew the minds of …
If there’s one thing we have learned from videogames over the years, it’s to always attack the red flashing spot. That, and the fact that it’s always the games with a steep learning curve that end up being the most rewarding. To say that Port Royale 3 is initially confusing is an understatement – the …
Sleeping Dogs. Now that’s a name ripe for pun making. Had this free-roaming oriental adventure – which originally started out as a new True Crime game for Activision – turned out to be on the smelly side we could have rolled out such one-liners as “this dog should have been put to sleep†and “every …
You’d be forgiven for mistaking this as a Kairosoft game. It’s a very easy error to make as not only does Bookstore Dream share a similar visual style to Game Dev Story and the like, but at £1.80 the pricing isn’t far off from a Kairosoft game either. This is a small game in more …
High Moon Studio’s Dark of the Moon tie-in was far from being the best Transformers game ever, but neither was it the worst. Proving that all experience is good experience, when playing Fall of Cybertron it’s easy to get the impression that they have managed to learn a few things from it. Namely, putting a …
This year has been full of surprises, but none have been more pleasant than Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. The first episode proved that the point-and-click adventure genre still has plenty of untapped potential – had this series been handled differently, we don’t think it would have ended up being as tense or as exciting. …
Yet another war game? Perhaps on first inspection. Once the joypad is firmly in your hand though, it doesn’t take much more than a few minutes to realise that Spec Ops does a lot of things differently from other shooters. Different in a good way, of course. It’s a third-person shooter and just like Gears …
The rate that new games appear on the Xbox Indie service is overwhelming – there’s no way we’d be able to play through them all to sort the wheat from the chaff. We have Eurogamer to thank for bringing this 80 MSP shooter to our attention via their review, and now we’re going to wax …
We’ve had a soft spot for Harvest Moon ever since the series made its debut on the SNES, but our fondness for the franchise wasn’t the reason we were eager to play this 3DS endeavour. It was the plot that compelled us to pick up and play it – the story is a novel one, …
If Saber Interactive doesn’t have a very well used copy of Gears of War in their studio we’d be very surprised. Not only have they managed to emulate the look and feel of Epic’s gung-ho trilogy, but even the menus and a few of the play mechanics have been shamelessly copied. We’re not just saying …
This free Kinect Fun Labs download has been funded by NASA themselves, who in turn are funded by the American government. So a big thanks goes out to all the honest and hard working Americans – your taxes have helped to pay for this. Good job! We do genuinely mean that without a hint of …
There was a time that whenever Square-Enix strayed away from RPGs the results would more often than not be disastrous. Thankfully the days of the embarrassingly bad beat ’em up The Bouncer and shoddy racing sim Driving Emotion Type S are long behind us. The PSP-exclusive brawler Dissidia Final Fantasy proved that they didn’t have …