The second entry in our weeklong look at music from snow and ice levels comes from Diddy Kong Racing, a bizarre hybrid that combined the racing and power-ups of Mario Kart 64 with the exploration and level structure of Super Mario 64. As usual, David Wise (Rare's go-to music man) knocked out a memorable and fittingly goofy set of tunes for the game, including a couple of extremely Christmas-y songs you're about to hear.
What better way to celebrate Halloweek than with a Photoshop frenzy of brains and bile as we zombify some of gaming's best loved characters. Be warned, however, some of these images are a tad graphic, full of weeping sores, rotting flesh and exposed rib cages, so don't go getting disturbed for life over these. Promise? Good.
Number one. By it's very definition it should characterize top drawer excellence. But when it comes to the game charts we know that's not always the case. Here we present the very worst games - the absolute crud of the crop - that have made it to the heady heights of number one in the US and UK since 2005.
Hit number one: 10 February 2007Platform: DSGame Rankings average: 67%
Port of a decent 10 year-old N64 Mario