Sep 30, 2010

As a thank you to the positive reaction from their fans, Cosmonaut Games, the studio behind WiiWare title Dive: The Medes Island Secret, have released the original soundtrack for download. The pack contains 11 remastered songs from the game, as well as bonus tracks that have never been heard before. You can find the link to download the songs in Cosmonaut Games...

After reinventing The Beatles as video game cash cows, Harmonix have now set their goals to perform a similar feat with MTV pop punk deities Green Day. Black shirt and red tie-wearing fans the world over will be excited to know that the final tracklist to Green Day: Rock Band has now been announced. The choices are for the most part fairly obvious, featuring...

Independent research carried out across Europe by YouGov has discovered that Mario is the ‘best-loved videogame character of all time.’ He’s at least one of the most flaunted about anyway. This groundbreaking exploration of discovery also revealed that Mario’s rather pleasing jingles are amongst the most well known in games, with the majority of...

The growth in digital app stores can’t have passed by the average Critical Gamer (see what I did there?). Every device has one, from the DSi to the Playstation 3, and they have opened up new distribution channels for existing developers and publishers, as well as enabling new, much smaller creators to be able to reach out to the consumer and sell them...

It’s clear that music games sell. Even WiiMusic. The reason why they sell is clear; people like music and they like it a lot! However in recent years traditional music formats have not been selling. We have all read why, and normally those that comment and write about such matters immediately highlight illegal downloading and the fact that consumers are...