UK’s youngest pilot flies solo with Xbox
2 user commentsJames Coyne-Downhill took to the skies on his 16th birthday, becoming the UK’s joint-youngest pilot to fly solo. His success is largely thanks to the Xbox, he says...Well, that and a couple of years of dedicated training – James, an air cadet from Ringwood, Hampshire, actually took his first flying… Read full entry
Previous posts by Games Editor
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Adventures on the Wheels of... Plastic
0 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
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It's Halo. We're buying it.
1 user commentsOf course it is really very good, but a whole bunch of people are going to be buying Halo 3: ODST simply because... well, it's the new Halo. Have Xbox, need Halo. Gears of War too for that matter, but this week we're looking at the prospect of shooting more Covenant… Read full entry
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Hands on with GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
6 user commentsIt's not the size of the hard drive that matters; it's what you can do with it that counts. Speaking purely objectively, since you can only download GTA IV Episodes onto an Xbox 360 this gives Microsoft considerable bragging rights. On the flip side there's no Uncharted 2 for the… Read full entry
