11th Jan, 2008
Games based on licensed IPs are the unpleasant body odour of gaming. No-one really likes them, but they're inexorably tied to the medium and just keep coming back no matter what we do to get rid of them. As crap as most of these games are though, the licenses they're based on usually make sense. Big movies, popular, action-packed TV shows and successful sports stars are all perfect subjects to stick on a box in order to persuade the unsuspecting buyer to pick it up. It's a
Jan 11, 2007
Sure you can finish Resident Evil without saving, complete Halo 3 without dying and fight your way to the end of the Iron Fist tournament with all your continues intact. But can you do it in the time it takes to boil a kettle? Didnt think so.
But there are gamers out who play so fast it makes our eyes bleed. Lucky for us - and you - they also like filming themselves doing it. So here are 10 of the best. All of which will make you feel like a
Jan 10, 2008
Release dates - like hearts, promises and Xbox 360s - are made to be broken. Games scheduled for next week invariably slide into next month, next month into next year, next year into next decade... and next decade into, well, never. We must resign ourselves to this rule or live in perpetual disappointment.
But indulge and imagine for a moment. What if those dates were always hit? What if developer and publisher promises were always kept? What if forum predictions were always
Jan 9, 2008
If you want to sell your product, you need a catchy name, something that immediately resonates with your intended audience. This is incredibly true in video games, an industry that began with no-nonsense names like "Combat" and "Pong." Today, with a global marketplace and niches to fill on a daily basis, game names have become increasingly cryptic, nonsensical or double-meaning in-jokes that about five people get.
That's where this list comes in. By compiling information from
January 9, 2008
Official ELSPA Entertainment Top 20 Software Chart (all prices) - week ending 9 January:
1 (2) FIFA 08
(PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PSP, DS, Wii)
2 (3) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
(PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
3 (4) The Simpsons Game
(PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, DS, Wii,
4 (1) Assassin's Creed
(PS3, Xbox 360)
5 (5) Need For Speed: ProStreet
(PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PSP, DS, Wii)
6 (6) Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
(PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PSP, DS)
7 (10) The Golden Compass
(PS2,
Jan 8, 2008
There's no reason whatsoever that Lego Batman shouldn't be quality, considering it's coming from Lego Star Wars crew Traveller's Tales. New screenshots have been
January 8, 2008
Girls, eh? Sadly, it seems the geekier we are about games, the fewer naked girls there are in our bedrooms. Odd, that. But don't worry - there are plenty of girls who will play with you. They may not be entirely real, but they will happily let you dress them up (Rumble Roses), hose them down (also Rumble Roses) and wrestle each other in a mud pit for your amusement (Rumble Roses again). So it kinda evens out.
But the fantasies don't end there. Actually, there's something for
Jan 7, 2008
Every family's got one. The drunken brother-in-law. The cousin with a criminal record. The perverted uncle who hasn't been invited to reunions or holidays since his incident with the goat. Whatever the name and whatever the shame, we all know that one relative we're just not supposed to talk about.
Every videogame franchise has one of these regrettable members as well. Fans and developers may try to ignore, forget or even erase its existence, but the stain will always remain. Here
The relationship between games and movies has always been a tense one. There's something almost violently alchemical about the way the two media usually react to each other. It's like getting hit by a yellow, piss-soaked snowball. Either element can be unpleasant enough on its own, but put them both together and something far more horrible happens.
Games of movies, movies of games, they're both usually about as much fun as the death of a clown at a ten year-old's birthday party. But still we
Jan 4, 2008
Third-party videogame accessory provider Mad Catz has inked a deal with Rock Band publisher MTV Networks to provide peripherals for the game.
The multi-year licensing agreement will bring Mad Catz' Rock Band controllers to the market sometime in the first half of 2008. The firm now has the rights to manufacture, market and sell Rock Band peripherals and other Rock Band-related products.
Mad Catz' instrument controllers will be produced for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PS2. The
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