Resistance: Burning Skies fails to set top 10 ablaze

We didn’t expect the UK charts to be released today with it being a bank holiday and all. We certainly aren’t complaining though – we wouldn’t want it to get swamped under tomorrow’s E3 news. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Solider remains #1 for a second week running, followed by Max Payne 3, FIFA 12, …

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Celebrate The Queen’s Jubilee shooting aliens

When it was announced that Nihilistic were working on Resistance: Burning Skies we were sceptical. This is the studio that gave us the dire Marvel Nemises: Rise of the Imperfects and the mediocre PlayStation Move Heroes, after all. That scepticism appears to have been well placed – reviews of this PS Vita-exclusive haven’t been great, …

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Dead Island – the UK’s #1 holiday destination

With so many new releases out last week, there was no way that this week’s UK chart was going to be a dull one. And it isn’t. Even with mixed reviews – everything from a 3/10 in EDGE to 8.0 from IGN – Dead Island manages to take the top spot. Below that at #2 …

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A new Earth Defense Force? Th-ants

Previous Earth Defense Force games have been developed in Japan but for Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon the reins have been passed over to US developer Vicious Cycle, who developed the underrated spoof shoot’em up Eat Lead. It would seem that the series has lost none of the charm with reviews suggesting that, just like …

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