Real family games for Nintendo?
3 user commentsCan we still class The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, even Mario Kart as family games? The latest As Seen on TV titles from Koch Media suggest otherwise.Family Fortunes, Countdown, Ready Steady Cook, I'm a Celebrity, Beat the Intro and The Ultimate Red Ball Challenge. You'll have heard of most… Read full entry
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LEGO Rockband: Blur "Song 2"
7 user commentsHere's Damon Albarn and his legendary Britpop outfit Blur, tearing it up with the 1997 anthem "Song 2". If the crowd is made of LEGO guys they'd better be carefull moshing around or it won't just be LEGO girls losing their heads!… Read full entry
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Modern Warfare 2: hands-on
51 user commentsFrightening levels of visual and sonic detail enable snow-covered mountains and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to spring to life as we scurry to avoid certain death.If you thought the original Modern Warfare was a milestone in gut-crunching entertainment, wait until the controller is in your hands for the… Read full entry
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Adventures on the Wheels of... Plastic
1 user commentsBefore Guitar Hero, many of you wouldn't have considered picking up an instrument of any sort. Now DJ Hero is here to evangelise on behalf of scratch DJs. Activision is chasing a whole new audience with its newest addition to the "...Hero" series. Put down your replica guitars, shelve those… Read full entry
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Avatar: New dimension, familiar scenes
11 user commentsIf you've £7K to spare on a 3D television, playing the upcoming videogame of the James Cameron movie will be quite the event this December. For everyone else though this could be just another third-person shooter. There was a sense of genuine, and uncommon, excitement before entering the presentation for… Read full entry
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Have brain, will solve mysteries
0 user commentsWith its Dan Brown approach to historically informed intrigue, and humble touch-screen interface, "Cate West: The Vanishing Files" works a treat on DS. Although by no means the first squint-against-the-clock game to arrive on Nintendo DS, Cate West brings a touch of class to the genre this coming Friday. There's… Read full entry
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A call to arms with Modern Warfare 2
0 user commentsThe Call of Duty series makes a victorious return to the fray when Modern Warfare 2 launches later this month. But what lies in store in this, the most anticipated of wargame sequels...?Previous Call of Duties have been standalone affairs, each revisiting and reimagining particular events of past conflicts. Not… Read full entry
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PSP Go in our hands
0 user commentsSony's new PlayStation Portable (PSP) grabs hold of the download media-sharing era with both hands. Though lacking some features that have made the latest Apple iPod Touch and iPhone so compelling, PSP Go excites on its own terms.Gamers are justifiably distracted by the thousands of diverse apps available for iPhone.… Read full entry
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Street Fighter sequel so soon?
0 user commentsAn impressive comeback earlier this year sustained Street Fighter IV through seven successive weeks in the UK Top 10, and 12 weeks in the UK Top 20. This makes it bigger than even The Beatles: Rock Band. Perhaps SFIV publishers Capcom are rightly confident in bringing a sequel so soon… Read full entry
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Wii-poff Britain? Not this time.
0 user commentsNintendo has dropped the price of the Wii in the US, but a similar stunt will not happen here. Before your reach for that pitchfork, it's not going to be all bad for first-time Wii owners in the UK. Honestly it isn't. So the Americans are getting $50 knocked off… Read full entry
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Second-hand gaming goes stratospheric. Are you buying...?
18 user commentsThe GAME group – owners of GAME and Gamestation retail outlets – has just reported that pre-owned game sales accounted for 25.7% of its business in the six months running up to July 31st 2009.That’s a cool £177 million in revenue, which is a 12.3% increase over the same period… Read full entry
