Crash of the Titans

ToysRUs has just gone above and beyond the call of corporate greed. The retailer is offering what is perhaps the worst next-gen console bundle in the history of gaming: a Nintendo Wii and 10 games (No 1st Party titles) for $700.

Australian GfK's weekly software sale charts for All Formats, PC, Xbox 360, DS, Wii, PS2, PS3, and PSP.

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)

Sept 14, 2007 Now weve seen it all. Right at this very minute, Crash Bandicoot is standing outside our UK offices, handing out ice-creams, Red Bull and vodka from a wonderfully decorated Crash of the Titans ice-cream van. As we pointed out in our recent hands-on, Crash of the Titans has the potential to be more than just another kid's game. Stay tuned for a full review soon and in the meantime check out our video interview with the developer and collection of

Sierra and Vivendi have partnered up with the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society School & Youth program, providing the mug of Crash Bandicoot as its mascot. The scheme teaches children across America about community service and raises both awareness and money for leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma. GamerSquad can't decide whether the agreement is more a venture in shameless self-promotion for Crash or a genuine goodwill gesture. In either case there's no mention on the press release of either Sierra or Vivendi donating any of the profits from the game to what is without a shadow of a doubt a worthy cause.

Crash of the Titans, developer Radical tells us, "is not a kid's game." We might have to disagree. After all, Crash has always been a kiddie-friendly, non-edgy platform hero, and within two seconds of our latest viewing of the game Crash blew off a fart, seemingly for his own amusement. All right, so maybe we sniggered just a bit. But it's hardly award-winning comedy gold, is it? What we think Radical really means is that Crash of the Titans "isn't just another brainless platforming game." And

The Crash Bandicoot series has changed hands more than Blockbuster DVD, and with Radical Entertainment now heading up development they're reinventing the orange critter for his current-gen debut. Crash of the Titans will appear on Wii, PS2, DS, PSP and 360, and will follow an action-orientated theme in which he has the power to "hijack" the minds of others. Crash himself has learned a few new fighting moves too, now able to string together a selection of punches and kicks into a ninja combo