Jan 27, 2012

Format: XBLA Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: UTV Ignition Developer: Denki Players: 1 (offline), 2-4 (online) Site: http://www.denki.co.uk/games/quarrel/ This game sees pirates fighting ninjas, and cavemen fighting robots. Oh, still here? Most people rushed off to buy the game before the end of the first sentence. Well for the rest of you, here’s a...

Jan 11, 2012

In an uncomfortable reminder of exactly how and why manufacturers of complicated electronic products enjoy such huge profit margins, here is a story which brings the word ‘suicide’ into the world of console manufacturing – again. If the word ‘Foxconn’ means anything to you at all, it will almost certainly be due to reports of workers...

Jan 2, 2012

Format: Wii (version reviewed), PS3, 360 Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Montpellier Players: 1-4 (offline only) Site: http://raymanorigins.uk.ubi.com/# If you owned a SNES and/or Mega Drive (AKA Genesis) way back when, your gaming life would have been spent riding a surfboard of pleasure over a stormy sea of side-scrolling...

Dec 23, 2011

Format: XBLA Unleashed: Out Now Publisher: Hello Games Developer: Hello Games Players: 1-2 (offline only) Site: http://www.hellogames.org/ The modern gamer’s Pavlovian response to bright colours and relentless smiles is a sneer and a derogatory comment. Should such a young whipper-snapper pluck up the courage to give this game a go, however – which...

Dec 23, 2011

NOTE: Previously published and subsequently lost to an evil electronic gremlin, it only recently came to my attention that this had not been republished. The day of our Joe Danger: Special Edition review seemed as good a time as any to put it back up again. If you’ve already played Joe Danger, you’re almost certainly excited for Joe Danger: The...