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GamesRadar gets sweaty with EA Sports Active (EA Sports Active)

22/05/2009

EA Sports Active is officially not a game. It's a fitness program for Wii. We got sent a copy - complete with leg strap and funky stretchy band thing- so we thought we'd indulge in a little 20 minute workout. By the time we'd finished we were one big soggy sweat sack of quivering muscles. But we'd burnt some calories and had some fun doing it. So we had the brilliant idea of making a video of us going for the burn with EA Sports Active. And ...

Trailer Trash #3 (EA Sports Active)

30/04/2009

When did professional darts players attain to the status of WWE stars, playing to stadiums full of screaming fans and strutting into the place with an effing intro? Bluster aside, there is no way that holding a Wii remote like a dart is “realistic.” ...

Game names corrected by spell check (Eledees)

5/06/2008

You know that red line that pops up in Word, Firefox or any other program with a spell check? It's helpful, don't get us wrong, but they really should spend some time working on spell check's virtual intuition. When we typed "Firefox," just now while writing this article, the red line asked if we meant "firebox." Um no, we didn't. And that's what happens countless times every second across the world when people type in video game names - ...

WiiTube (Eledees)

1/06/2007

With the full Opera browser slowly - and we mean slowly - downloading into the Wii's master-brain, there's no better time to indulge in a spot of YouTubing shenanigans. It's here gamers reveal acts of gaming prowess beyond our meager arm-flailing goofiness, and demonstrate how to milk every drop of fun from those Wii discs. Now get surfing. Remote Flicks - Big screen Wii by hohlerman Watch as a group of enterprising Wii fanatics create the real big screen gaming experience. That such a tiny ...

A ten-step guide to videogame morphine (Endless Ocean)

27/11/2007

27 Nov, 2007 For a time of peace on earth, theres going to be a lot of stress and killing around this Christmas. Just think about this winters biggest games. Whether its COD4s visceral gunfire tearing apart wall and limb alike, the bloody back-stabbing business of the always-hounded Altair, or Kane and Lynch just being plain old sociopathic, the jovial festival of light and wonder really is looking like a quite brutal one this year. We need a way to combat this, and preferably one which ...

Miis invade your Wii game (Escape from Bug Island)

19/07/2007

Miis are cool and all but remember when we were excited to see our digital creations pop up in every Wii game wed own? Remember how Nintendo refuses to make that happen - prompting games such as MySims to have you create better/cooler versions of Miis? What gives Nintendo? We show you how things coulda been ...

12 games you might never play (Eternal Darkness II)

24/04/2009

Remember how great StarCraft: Ghost was going to be? Sorry, it’s dead. It’s not uncommon for games to be cancelled. It usually happens like this: A game is announced, we hear nothing about it for years, then buried somewhere in a press release about another game we find a note that mentions that it has been “indefinitely delayed,” which actually means “permanently delayed.” And that’s it, we never hear about it again. ...

Gaming car crashes through the ages (Excite Truck)

17/09/2008

After a few hours playing your new racing game, sooner or later you will stop braking for corners (if you ever started), or even turn round and drive around the track the wrong way into the oncoming pack of cars. Why would such craziness take over an otherwise stable mind? Because crashing cars is fun. It's as simple as that.

From the flashing screen and bouncing wheel of Super Monaco GP to the physics-fest of Burnout ...

2007 - The best gaming year ever (Excite Truck)

20/12/2007

20th Dec, 2007 Gaming is an up and down experience. Some years cram top quality titles into our every orifice until were bursting with videogame joy and have excess polygons dripping messily out of our ears, while some other years… Well, some other years are 1983. In 2007 though, weve had a very good year indeed. A scarily good year in fact. One which has provided us so much brilliance on every format that its a genuine worry that the laws of karmic balance will soon bring us a plague ...

Take the scenic route in Excite Truck (Excite Truck)

27/02/2007

We know, we know. Its been a few months since the Wii launch and you played this game to death along with Red Steel (remember that game?). Youve unlocked everything, won all the medals, looked like a fool holding the Wii-mote sideways; but have you seen all the shortcuts? Your confused, half-dazed look tells us you overlooked one of the best parts about Excite Truck. Thats right; the ability to cheat with style. Here we have for you some of the coolest shortcuts and scenic routes in the game. ...

2009's best under-the-radar games (Excitebots: Trick Racing )

27/11/2009

It's a rare occurrence nowadays, but every once in a while, a game you’ve never even heard of comes along and absolutely blows you away. Sometimes it's a little indie gem that didn't get enough promotion. Other times, what appears to be a quick cash-in turns out to be an awesome game. ...

Excitebots – the WTF-iest game of 2009 (Excitebots: Trick Racing )

13/04/2009

Excitebots had an uphill struggle from the moment it was announced. The name betrays the fact it’s a re-skinned version of 2006’s all-motion racer Excite Truck, now loaded with robotic insects and animals instead of diesel-gulping vehicles. Kinda hard to get worked up about a remix of a years-old game that didn’t make a big splash the first time around ...