Friday 3 August 2007 We were quite surprised when we opened the press screenshots of new DS racing game Rapid Racoon. On hearing the name and learning it was due to release on DS in February next year, we had images of a Racoon in a canoe in our heads. Sadly that wasn't to be. What we've got, however, appears to be a game that's essentially WipEout with a different name. Life's full of surprises, isn't it? The game features futuristic hovercraft racing through futuristic industrial, forest and ...
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It's perfectly fine to rip off other people's ideas in videogames. Just change the game name and no-one will care. That's the lesson to be learned here as Rapid Racoon turns up on DS wearing a WipEout disguise. As you can see, that game has you racing around similarly rollercoaster-like courses in similarly hovering anti-gravity ships in a similarly futuristic setting. It will have a similar weapon pick-up system that give you mines, missiles, magnets, bombs, speed boosts and other similar ...
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It's perfectly fine to rip off other people's ideas in videogames. Just change the game name and no-one will care. That's the lesson to be learned here as Rapid Racoon turns up on DS wearing a WipEout disguise.
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The Orange Box debuts at 3, Phantom Hourglass at 4

Sega's Football Manager 2008 has entered the UK's all-formats chart at number one this week, knocking EA's FIFA 08 off the top spot.

Accounting for 38 per cent of all PC titles sold in the past week, Sports Interactive's management sim is Sega's first multiformat number one title since last year's version of the popular football franchise.

1. Football Manager 2008 (PC)
2. FIFA 08 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, DS, PC)
3. The Orange Box (Xbox 360, PC)
4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
5. Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
6. Project Gotham Racing 4 (Xbox 360)
7. Ratatouille (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, DS, PC)
8. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, DS, PC)
9. Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
10. Crash of the Titans (Wii, Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, DS, GBA)
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Over in Spain Bioshock's worldwide success rumbles on, as does Pokemon Diamond on the DS, which claims the # 2 spot. There's also an impressive start for Microsoft's Blue Dragon which debuts at # 3, and movie license Ratatouille on DS, which charts at # 4.
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Rats aren't very cute, but neither are bugs, monsters and hillbilly pickup trucks. But somehow Pixar has been able to take those characters and make some pretty great movies. Whether or not the videogame tie-in for Pixar's next animated film, Ratatouille, can borrow that mojo and make a game that appeals to everyone remains to be seen, but now we've got a trailer to give you a better idea of what to expect. Our recent look describes the platformer as borrowing "everything from Super Monkey ...
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A videogame version of Ratatouille, Pixar Animation's latest project about a French rat who really wants to be a great chef, will be launched on just about every gaming platform you can think of next summer. In case you can't think of that many platforms, here's the list: PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, GameCube, PC, DS and PSP. Mon dieu. As the Parisian rodent, Remy, you'll be skittering through a bunch of minigames and cookery challenges themed around what publisher THQ promises are "the film's ...
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Three things would survive the wanton destruction of a nuclear holocaust: cockroaches, bacteria and Rayman. That's right, he's coming back. Age cannot wither him and mass indifference does not bother him because Ubi Soft have announced that the floppy-eared furry fool will return next year, with stylus and wireless play for Nintendo DS in tow.But the limbless wonder is just one of the three games that the Gallic giant plans to pump out when DS appears over here. Also lined up for the same time ...
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Mad Catz Interactive, Inc., a leading third-party interactive entertainment accessory provider, announced today that it has secured a license from Ubisoft to produce branded accessories based on the Rayman Raving Rabbids series of games. The multi-year agreement gives Mad Catz North American rights to a range of accessories for the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PC, the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and the Wii home videogame system from Nintendo.
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Video games and their potential for causing photo sensitive epileptic seizures is to be the subject of a House of Commons debate in the UK after a long campaign by a mum whose son suffered a first time fit while playing the Nintendo DS version of Rayman Raving Rabbids. ...

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