GTA V isn’t the only game out this week

Grand Theft Auto V isn’t just this week’s biggest release, but arguably the biggest release of this generation. Chart Track has revealed that 1.57m copies were sold on launch day, leading it to become the UK’s fastest selling game ever. The previous record holder was Call of Duty: Black Ops with 1.41m copies sold. If …

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Spec Ops: The Line is rather fine

First person shooter Spec Ops: The Line isn’t new IP but it has been such a long time since the last Spec Ops game (2002’s Spec Ops: Airbourne Commando) that it may as well be. Spec Ops: The Line is pretty far removed from previous games in the series too. Much like Tom Clancy’s Ghost …

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Ubisoft managed to build Rome in a year

This Week’s Games Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has gone from being a game quietly announced with very little fanfare to being the highest rated game this winter. It currently has an average review score of 92%, which is higher than even Call of Duty: Black Ops (currently at 88%). Eurogamer gave it 10/10: “Never before have …

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Professor Layton and the Tablets of Euphoria

This Week’s Games Videogame publishers of the world must be able to smell that money sitting in your bank account. That’s the only reason I can think as to why there’s at least five new games out this week which are worth considering. That’s nothing compared to next week’s onslaught of new titles, though. Fallout: …

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Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon

Rune FactoryIf you give a man a plough and a bag of seeds instead of a loaf of bread he can feed himself for months. Give a man a fishing rod instead of a fish and he can catch his own food. Give a man a copy of Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon to review and he’ll wonder where several hours have gone. Not all of it was enjoyable, mind you.

Like the previous Harvest Moon games, tolling away on a patch of raggedy land to create a fertile farm full of fruit and fortune is rewarding. The town has plenty of shops to spend your sweat-covered cash on while the townsfolk themselves are a curious bunch, often mid-conversation as you enter their homes and happy to let you eavesdrop. If watering and sowing crops starts getting laborious then you can also pick up a rod and go fishing.

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