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
Previous posts by Games Editor
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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
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Beatles: We love you, yeah, yeah, no…?
0 user commentsWell, The Beatles: Rock Band not only failed to reach the top of the all-formats/full-price games charts, but only debuted in a surprisingly modest fourth place. What is that all about, we’re wondering?Is the Great British public finally growing tired of The Beatles? After all, everyone loves the Fab Four… Read full entry
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LEGO Rock Band gets Iggy Pop!
7 user commentsWow look what happened to Iggy Pop! He's even cooler than you've ever seen him before - this time he's all made out of LEGO! Yes, front-man dynamo Iggy is among the stars appearing in LEGO Rock Band this November on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.We thought you'd like… Read full entry
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Cobain pain for Guitar Hero 5
0 user commentsKurt Cobain’s widow has taken great exception to the use of her dead husband’s likeness in Guitar Hero 5 and is threatening to get medievally legal on the game’s publishers, Activision. Oh dear...Courtney Love, for it is she, is herself something of a rock icon and is not generally known… Read full entry
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Paul Dini talks Batman Arkham Asylum
0 user commentsThe Emmy award-winning scriptwriter chats to Yahoo! UK Games about this week's chart-topping videogame. Paul is celebrated by fans for his long association with Batman, most notably "Batman: The Animated series". However his contributions to the "Lost" television series also earned him recognition. We quiz Paul on Batman, his knack… Read full entry
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PS3 Slim sales: 999% up!
0 user commentsUK sales monitor, Chart-Track, has just released data showing that the launch of the PS3 Slim has been a super-soaraway success.Sales of the slightly thinner, slightly cheaper, certainly sexier PS3 Slim have accounted for an increase of 999% over the space of seven short, but presumably very frantic days. That… Read full entry
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Xbox 360 games lose the gloss?
0 user commentsNews filtering through the games industry reveals that Microsoft has effectively dropped the need for Xbox 360 titles to be made in hi-definition. Microsoft has required that Xbox 360 game developers work at 720p resolution ever since 2005. That’s all very nice for gamers with HD tellies and it’s certainly… Read full entry
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Are you the average PlayStation Network user?
0 user commentsGot yourself a PlayStation 3 or PS3 Slim yet? If so, it’s likely you’ll be using the PlayStation Network at some stage. It’s likely you’ll be fitting within the demographic profile of the average PSN user too...Nobody likes to be categorised, right? Pah! Too bad – the marketing depts. of… Read full entry
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Technology is the new ‘black’
0 user commentsApparently around half the nation believes that the gadgets they carry are as important to their ‘fashion image’ as a snazzy new haircut or a trendy item of designer clothing. Quite right too - clothes are sooo last year, darlings...This not altogether startling discovery is revealed in a new report… Read full entry
