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The Naruto you'll never see (Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution)

Apr 13, 2007

Aside from the magical students of Hogwarts, the cast of Naruto has got the be the country's favorite pack of school-bound adventurers out there. Their exploits took over Japan first and have since made their way over to our shores, ensuring many years of orange-draped ninja merchandise. A steady stream of games has helped buoy that popularity over the past year, but there's one title you won't be seeing despite its guaranteed success in the states - that'd be Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja ...

59 levels to play before you die: M - S (NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams)

Mar 21, 2008

Bloc Party's song "Helicopter" can make anything amazing, but it didn't have to work too hard during the tram-ride sequence in Getting Up. Say what you will about the game, but frantically leaping between four aerial cable cars and shimmying around their edges to spray paint a single giant message - all while dodging machinegun fire and tossing riot cops - felt overwhelmingly badass the first time we did it. ...

NiGHTS: Old VS New video comparison (NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams)

Jan 11, 2008

January 11, 2008 With the UK release of NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams just a week away, we thought we'd dust off our Sega Saturn and see just how similar the new game is to the 1996 original. It's highly possible you've never heard of NiGHTS into Dreams, as the Saturn was steamrollered by PSone back in the day, but the original game is widely considered to be one of the finest videogames ever made. Want to see what they look like compared to each other? Well - see for yourself in our three ...

NiGHTS video spoiler thwarted by fate (NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams)

Dec 20, 2007

Dec 19, 2007 So guess who was going to show you the ultra-secret, uber-final NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams ending? Only achievable after scoring high marks on every mission, defeating two bosses, and collecting the final Ideya, we invested hours into unlocking this super sweet cinema. The results were as tragic as a power outage, or a cruel and merciless parent pulling the plug on your game machine for not taking out the garbage. Plus, it was eerily reminiscent of a certain popular TV show that ...

Sintendo: The evil side of kiddy gaming (No More Heroes)

Jun 13, 2008

Troublesome cameras, rotten language and bare breasts: not things you’d normally associate with a Nintendo game. Okay, some of these occur in third-party titles, but the important fact is that each one carries the Original Nintendo Seal of Quality. And that means Nintendo approved them all. Not so bad for a company famous for its censorship back in the early nineties, huh? So the next time somebody pokes fun at Nintendo for being ...

Interview: Suda51 (No More Heroes)

Mar 26, 2008

The eccentric games developer and Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda has found fame for his last two big-name games - No More Heroes and Killer 7 - but as a producer, he’s got a list of innovative hits as long as an elephant’s nasal spray. These include Michigan: Report from Hell, which takes place entirely behind a film crew’s camera, and soon-to-be-DSed adventure game The Silver Case. He’s ...

The Top 7... Assassins (No More Heroes)

Feb 6, 2008

On some level, roughly 95 percent of games have always been about assassination: go to point A and kill prominent entity B, fighting your way through goons C through Z to get there. Most games tend to come up with a morally justifiable pretext for all the violence, but more and more, we're seeing games that drop the act and let you be what you've secretly known yourself to be all along: a remorseless killing machine bent on destroying your targets. ...

No More Heroes strategy guide: Kill the killers (No More Heroes)

Feb 6, 2008

No More Heroes is a fantastic game. Fantastic but very very hard. Taking down the UAA's top ten assassins will take all the brains, braun, and tactical thinking you can muster, but don't go worrying. We've taken the beats, we've learned the lessons, and we've got you covered. ...

No More Heroes: The hidden plot revealed! (No More Heroes)

Jan 29, 2008

[Spoiler warning: Under no circumstances read on if you haven't played right to the end of No More Heroes yet. Doing so will make you cry. We can virtually guarrantee it.] Okay, so you've fought your way right through to the end of the game. You've marvelled at the crazy invention and lunatic imagination on show. You've been thrilled by the katana-swinging, bad guy-exploding action. You've grooved to the soundtrack, you've run that bike over more people than you can remember, and you've loved ...

Designing avant garde games on the toilet (No More Heroes)

Jan 16, 2008

16th Jan, 2008 Given his involvement in games like Killer7 and No More Heroes, people often assume director SUDA51 to be a very strange man indeed. They expect a dark and twisted Lynchian gore-fiend. They expect an overly-serious, high-brow arty type. They expect an bizarre, unholy, avant garde weird-monger with torrents of quirk pouring out of his ears. What they do not expect is a good-humoured Japanese man happily pottering around a videogame shop picking up a few PS2 games, but that's ...

No More Heroes is more punk than the Pistols (No More Heroes)

Dec 11, 2007

11th Dec, 2007 If videogames are the new rock ‘n roll, then No More Heroes is the Sex Pistols. Gory or not, Suda 51s latest is more than just crazy, violent and visually striking (although it is all of those things). More than anything else, No More Heroes is punk, in a way that we cant remember a game ever having been before. There really is no other word to describe it. The sense of anarchic, dont-give-a-f*ck hedonism runs through every aspect of the game like a stream of Sid Vicious ...

10 reasons why Killer 7 will melt your brain (No More Heroes)

Mar 27, 2007

At one time, the curiously-titled Killer 7 was a hot property in the video game world. New trailers created either curiosity or excitement in gamers and journalists wondered loudly whether we were about to see the worlds first post-modern game, one that would infuse life in the shooter genre and exist purely as “art” because of its bizarre cel-shaded graphics. Maybe they wondered a little too loudly ‘cause once the game hit retail, the review scores were low - mainly due to ...

No More Heroes - the SUDA 51 interview (No More Heroes)

Dec 12, 2006

Though you might have heard about it on the news - video game-hating lawyer Jack Thompson briefly cast his disturbed glare over it - there's very little chance you actually played underground hit Killer 7. Its murder-obsessed cults and split personalities make it one of the weirdest games on the PS2, and that's saying a lot. Forget about that, though: the game's creator, Goichi Suda - aka SUDA 51 - is back with something that looks, well, totally kick-ass. And this time it should be playable, ...