Wednesday 1 August 2007
Official ELSPA Entertainment Top 20 Software Chart (all prices) - week ending 28 July:
1 (NE) Pokemon Diamond
(DS)
2 (2) Transformers: The Game
(PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, DS, PSP, PC, Wii)
3 (NE) Pokemon Pearl
(DS)
4 (1) Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
(PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PSP, DS, Wii)
5 (4) Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
(Wii)
6 (3) More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old is Your Brain?
(DS)
7 (5) Wii Play
(Wii)
8 (6) Shrek the Third
Gamers like to complain. A lot. It's sort of what we do. And one of our favorite things to complain about is the fear of innovation that supposedly pervades the industry, driving away cool new ideas in order to ensure a steady flow of sequels and knockoffs that are, for all intents and purposes, the same game. For their part, though, publishers are right to worry about taking risks, because for every successful Katamari Damacy or Guitar Hero, there are dozens of companies that crashed and
E3 doesn't just afford us - the media - the opportunity to check out which upcoming games are looking hot, it also serves as a great indicator of trends and gives us the chance to view the bigger picture within the gaming industry. Here we cover the most prevalent themes that emerged from this year's event.
Everyone wants to go mass-market
While Sony can probably lay claim to being the first publisher to truly embrace lifestyle gaming with breakout titles like EyeToy: Play, SingStar and Buzz,
Namco Bandai has revealed four new games in its popular Tales series for Nintendo and Sony platforms, in the pages of Japanese Famitsu magazine.
The mag confirms a sequel to GameCube RPG Tales of Symphonia for Wii, as well as new entry Tales of Innocence for Nintendo DS. PSP meanwhile gets the aptly named Tales of Rebirth, while PS2 will see Tales of Destiny arrive. That's a lot of tales.
We're still scouring Famitsu with a fine magnifying glass, but the DS entry seems to be an entirely new
How did a retro, old-school 2D platformer about guys named Lance Bean and Mad Dog become one of the most buzzed about games at E3 2007?
Geek nostalgia is clearly a powerful force and Contra 4 knows exactly how to capture it. Check out the gameplay footage below and see for yourself. Miniature muscled men leaping up and down the flat screen, from perfectly horizontal platform to perfectly horizontal platform, shooting diagonally and literally ducking bullets as they go? That's the stuff
Friday 20 July 2007
Michael Owen has just been signed up to appear on the UK packaging of PES 2008 and will appear on the cover alongside Cristiano Ronaldo when the game is released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PSP, PC and DS in Autumn.
Were desperate to get our first touch of PES 2008 and it looks like well get our wish on 22 August when the game will be shown in playable form at this years Leipzig Game Convention. Well be there, boots in hand, to bring you our first
It's the top secret bit of info that's been whispered about in dark alleyways, behind bike sheds and under tables in McDonald's - psssssst, there's a version of Halo being developed for the Nintendo DS.
No such title has ever seen the light of day of course, but Bungie has now revealed that there's an element of truth behind the gossip.
"I believe we got pitched for it several times," Bungie's Frank O'Connor told Siliconera when questioned about there ever being Halo DS.
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Atari's parent company Infogrames puts enough value in the Dungeons & Dragons franchise to strike a new deal with franchise owner Hasbro.
Under a new agreement between the two companies, Infogrames now has an exclusive license to create games in the D&D world until 2017.
We can glean what it's going to do with the license over the next ten years from what the deal covers, which is both current and future D&D projects - and IPs including Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, which have been
Using legendary Pokemon in battles is a piece of cake. Their stats are higher than normal and their move pools are generally broader than those of standard Pokemon. Even without proper training and with an unbalanced move set, it's pretty easy to win a battle using legendary Pokemon. You don't need a whole lot of skill to win this way.
If you're a Pokemon master in the making then you're probably working hard at training standard Pokemon. Being victorious with regular Pokemon is a true
360 | Wii | DS | PS3 | PC | PS2 | PSP
E3 has morphed from the 800-pound gorilla of years past into a seventeen-headed hydra for 2007. But when it's all said and done, it's still the only place in the world that matters this week. Literally hundreds of games are going to be shown at this year's perfect storm of press conferences, hotel room appointments, and airplane hangar booth tours.
Therefore, we've hammered together this one-stop shop to bring you all the sights, sounds and sensory
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