Our videogame Christmas cards, rated

Best wishes from... Nintendo
Woah there. Ninty has a wealth of inconic videogame heroes, but it opts for a simple row of houses with gurning lifestyle models peeking through? Then we get a Nintendo 2008 calendar, and it too is stuffed with clinical pictures of TV people. Talk about missed opportunities.

Visuals | 6 | Boring houses, topped off inside by terribly dreary lifestyle photography
Festiveness | 8 | We can't ignore the red-nosed reindeer or red-hatted snowman outside
Composition | 6 | One of those 'nice in theory' but 'rubbish in practice' thingumies
Effort | 7 | The sad thing is that quite a lot of thought probably went into this card

Score: 6

Best wishes from... Nintendo
Woah there. Ninty has a wealth of inconic videogame heroes, but it opts for a simple row of houses with gurning lifestyle models peeking through? Then we get a Nintendo 2008 calendar, and it too is stuffed with clinical pictures of TV people. Talk about missed opportunities.

Visuals |6 |Boring houses, topped off inside by terribly dreary lifestyle photography
Festiveness |8 | We can't ignore the red-nosed reindeer orred-hatted snowman outside
Composition |6 | One of those 'nice in theory' but 'rubbish in practice' thingumies
Effort |7 | The sad thing is that quite a lot of thought probably went into this card

Score: 6

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.