Okay, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s the various contingents of hopeless fanboys/girls who incessantly cry for their favourite subject of their irrational, good-old-days, greatest-game-of-all-time love to be remade on whatever current console they happen to own. Fans of Final Fantasy VII are perhaps the most hopeless example of this kind of gamer, [...]

I feel as if I’ve just come down from a three-day acid binge. Every time I close my eyes I see Power Stars that need collecting; every time I have the briefest of internal monologues, they are punctuated by high-pitched, grating Toad voices; I keep wishing my dog had a tongue half as awesome as [...]

And in other news, Japanese game narratives continue to vindicate my theory that they’re unremittingly sh**. Then there’s the usual cast of precocious, self-important preteens – including the requisite androgynous male in short, short pants and fetish boots – supported by the world’s worst voice cast [...]

Another E3 has come and gone and gamers the world over are reeling in a euphoric haze after devouring way more gaming news than is ordinarily considered healthy. This year’s E3 ran from 15-17 June 2010, and over those few days all the big names in the industry dropped tons of information on what we [...]

We knew it was coming, but this year’s E3 has given Nintendo a chance to put all the rumours to rest. The design itself isn’t complete just yet, but this is pretty much what you can expect the 3DS to look like when it reaches retail shelves on or before March 2011: Here are the [...]

PlayStation Homeless According to sources, advertisers are abandoning PlayStation Home.  “The product has disappointed both users and advertisers,” says Brand Week. “In fact, Red Bull remains one of the few non-endemic advertisers to carve out space in the world.” What’s PlayStation Home? It’s this “free” virtual world thing on the PlayStation 3 where you can [...]

The Nintendo Media Summit in San Francisco, California, United States of America, has just finished. Lots of stuff happened, all Nintendo stuff, obviously. We’ve got you covered, right here. Super Mario Galaxy 2 Release (North America): May 23, 2010 Mario returns, he’ll jump on stuff, run around planets , and Bowser may be involved. The short-and-sweet [...]

A recent article over at Nintendo Everything reveals some surprising facts about Nintendo’s marketing around the world. Now, we know that some hardware developers are pretty pushy with their marketing and brand-building, but Nintendo takes the cake – and you’ll see why if you read up here. Game shows, cunningly-placed ads, themed areas in kids’ [...]

A recent article over at C&VG reveals that Project Natal was at first demonstrated to Iwata and other bigwigs as possible technology for a Nintendo peripheral. After witnessing the entire demonstration, Iwata was impressed, but still refused the technology for a number of reasons – leaving the coast clear for Microsoft to swing in and [...]

Recently, C-Net conducted a study in the UK regarding the reliability of the three major consoles: The Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Wii. The Xbox 360 was easily the most notorious, which is something we already knew – but the actual numbers may shock you. Of their study group which included Xbox 360 owners [...]

Oh blimey, bother, and baked beans on Big Ben! Professor Layton and his boy companion, Luke (unnecessary but inevitable tasteless joke here, I say!) have gotten themselves all tangled up in another grand adventure. Layton’s jolly chum Doc Schrader (I say!) has come into possession of one evil little artefact – a box said to [...]

One of the finest PlayStation 2 (and Nintendo Wii) adventure titles of the last decade, Okami, is getting a sequel exclusively on the Nintendo DS. Its full name is Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyou (no idea what that means), and stars a new wolf called Chibiterasu. The first details are scarce for now, as they’ve only appeared [...]

The sign of a great character design is that, no matter how it’s rendered, it remains a recognizable icon. If you’re a fan of either Super Mario Bros or The Legend of Zelda, or just like looking at pretty artworks, here are two links you won’t want to miss. First up is a collection of [...]

Some of you may remember Excitebike for the original NES, one of that console’s memorable titles. It provided great gameplay and innovative features, and two decades later Excite Truck attempts to be a spiritual successor to this classic. There are several game modes, with Excite being the primary one. This is where most of the [...]

December 28th, 1979. Somewhere south of LA, Kyle Hyde walks into Hotel Dusk, a  shabby, unobtrusively disreputable establishment off the 101. Hyde used to be a cop, but now he’s an itinerant salesman for Red Crown, shucking novelty crap from one dusty town to the next. Sometimes he’ll do a job off the books for [...]

So you got a flat tire, missed a meeting, dropped your cellphone in your coffee, and the dog peed on the rug. Betcha think you had a bad day, huh? Well, take solace from the fact that it’s nothing compared to the day Raymond Bryce is having… Disaster: Day of Crisis is a survival action [...]