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Motorstorm RC - PS3 Review (PS Vita version also available)

24/02/2012 at 09:56

PHIL MAY

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It's no secret that I've become something of an Evolution Studios groupie. The Motorstorm series is sublime and shows that one or two developers do know how to wring the very best out of the complex innards of the Playstation 3. So what happens when that team get their hands on the Playstation Vita, and start writing games for it? Well I can't actually tell you what the Vita version of Motorstorm RC is like, but I can certainly tell you what its cross-pollinated PS3 brother i...

Hero Academy's new team are a bit on the short side...

24/02/2012 at 09:36

PHIL MAY

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Hero Academy, the free to play turn-based strategy game from Robot Entertainment gets a whole new bunch of stumpy little battlers in the shape of the new Dwarves Team, now available to download from the app store. Hero Academy Version 1.1 is released today, so if you're already battling through the game's heady mix of cartoon graphics, uber-violence and huge lightning bolts, then you'll enjoy the addition of the new roster. Dwarves bring with them the teleport s...

Chillingo Thursday with Sticky Sheep and an offer you canna refuse...!

23/02/2012 at 14:55

PHIL MAY

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It's Thursday, it's Chillingo Thursday so with a song in our hearts, a spring in our step and a 44th birthday looming it's time to take a look at what our lovely fluffy wooly friends over in Chillingo-land have to offer for your favourite touch device this week. Sticky Sheep. It's a problem we've all encountered, right? How on earth do those cute bleating little tykes get so sticky? Surely someone can make some sort of a game out of the fact that sheep are, in general...

Persona 2: Innocent Sin PSP Review

22/02/2012 at 20:41

FLYING_PIG

2 COMMENTS.

Persona 2: Innocent Sin is, in gaming terms, an old game. Originally released for the original PlayStation in 1999, this PSP port represents the first time the game has ever been available outside of Japan. So the question is, has the 13 year wait, for this integral part of such a well known and loved series as Persona been worth the wait? Honestly? Sadly not. Persona 2 is set in the fictional Sumaru City and follows Tatsuya Suou, a popular high school student at Sev...

Borderlands 2 Drops the Bass and Ups the Awesome in this New Release Date Trailer

22/02/2012 at 14:28

CHRIS OTOOLE

6 COMMENTS.

We've just collectively shit our pants here at AATG towers, as Borderlands 2 is looking even better than we dared hope it would. Gearbox shot this amazeballs trailer into our waiting faces and confirmed that Borderlands 2 will release for PC, 360 and PS3 on September 18 in the US and September 21st for us Euro speaking saps. Pre-order tat is also in the offing and it consists of a whole bumload of in-game guns, the Vault Hunter's Relic and the mysterious Golden Key. ...

"Fake" Pokemon Yellow game shows gaping holes in Apple's approval process

21/02/2012 at 09:06

PHIL MAY

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Oh dear, here we go again. Fresh from the Zynga controversy, Apple is reeling once again as accusations pour in about their lazy approval process for iOS games. A fake Pokemon game, not endorsed by Nintendo, has risen to the top of the game charts despite Apple's claims that they're battening down the hatches against a sea of clones. Pokemon Yellow (the cheeky bastards didn't even have the decency to TRY and rename the thing) is a port of the Gameboy Color classic. It's gett...

Cover your 3DS in Seaman

21/02/2012 at 09:00

PHIL MAY

3 COMMENTS.

Oh the jokes they'll make, oh the things they'll say when this one hits. Seaman, the quirky voice-controlled...er...interactive toy with the innuendo-friendly name is coming to the 3DS according to a Nikkei listing. Original author Yoot Saito is dribbling his squirty creation onto Nintendo's console as part of their move to start bringing more rival-published stuff to the surprisingly successful handheld (and christ, does it ever need a shot in the arm). So why Seaman? Why wo...

Reign of Thunder is a F2P Mech Stomper from the makers of Mech Assault

21/02/2012 at 08:54

PHIL MAY

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You wait years for big stompy mech games to come along and then bloody loads of the things come along at once. All in the same year, all with a different wrinkle on giving you ultimate control over a brutal armed-to-the-teeth mechanical behemoth. So we've seen bits of Draken, we've heard scurrilous rumours about MechWarrior Online, and Mechwarrior Tactics and now here's another contender to the fray. Step forward Reign of Thunder, a new free-to-play Mech Shooter from the team...

Playfic invites you to build your own text adventure online

17/02/2012 at 09:43

PHIL MAY

2 COMMENTS.

Kids today, hah, they'll never know the joy of firing up a text adventure. Yes, an adventure game - that relies purely on your imagination to draw the mental picture of the immersive game world you find yourself lost in. I spent way too much time playing the Infocom adventures as a spotty teen, and remember also spending hours crafting a really rubbish Ghostbusters text adventure in the ZX Spectrum text-adventure creation tool The Quill. So I'm quite happy that ...

Lego Minecraft is a go. Now all we need is a videogame adaptation..oh

17/02/2012 at 09:35

PHIL MAY

6 COMMENTS.

Prince of Persia better make some shelf room, Lego Minecraft is on the way this summer as the block-building survival and crafting game gets hit with the irony wrench. Yep Lego based on Minecraft is due to hit this summer and the first few sets have been seen in the wild. I've a long-standing love affair with Lego, and it was neat to see Minecraft make it through Lego's rather harsh suggestions programme, but what are we getting here? Actually some fairly cool little interlock...

Zen Pinball Epic Quest Table Review

16/02/2012 at 14:22

ROB MOONBEAM

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At first glance, the marriage of the excellent Pinball FX2/Zen Pinball with an RPG seems like a really odd idea. This is not least because to date, playing the FX2 tables are largely self-contained experiences, their lifespans covering three score balls or more, if you've managed to unlock however many extra balls the table allows. With the exception of some of the Spider Man missions being leveled across games, none of the previous tables really offered anything i...

Chillingo Thursday basks in the sunshine of three new releases

16/02/2012 at 13:36

PHIL MAY

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The sun is out, the sky is blue, there's not a cloud to spoil the view but it's raining...raining new iOS releases as Chillingo Thursday hits. So what's in this week's tasty selection box of goodies? Let's dive in before your other half nabs all the soft centres. First up there's the platform-squirrel mash-up antics of Little Acorns. Guide Mr Nibbles, the hyperactive squirrel through 60 levels of puzzling platforming goodness stretching across the four season...

Assassins Creed III dropping on October 30th in the US

16/02/2012 at 10:05

PHIL MAY

1 COMMENTS.

Yves Guillemot has been squawking about the latest in the Assassins Creed franchise with a firm release date of 30th October, taking the series beyond the story of Ezio and into uncharted waters. Rumours currently abound that the game will feature an entirely new 'ancestor' and a new era that will form the basis of several games and DLC. This time the game will be geared around the American Revolution. Computer and Videogames claims insider knowledge about that l...

Could a Dead or Alive vs Virtua Fighter game be in the works?

16/02/2012 at 09:47

PHIL MAY

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Team Ninja are a funny bunch. The team behind the bouncy boobs of Dead or Alive (and the brutally punishing Ninja Gaiden) aren't really into all that tit-physics stuff really. And with Dead or Alive 5 they're looking to produce a more 'mature' gaming experience (what, bouncing tits not mature enough for you?) So what direction to go in? The rumours currently running around are that the DoA team rather fancy doing one of them thar mashups with another fighting franchise. Just like ...

Sony gears up for Twisted Metal: The Movie

16/02/2012 at 09:40

PHIL MAY

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Videogame-to-movie adaptations always stink. Always. No, I won't have it said otherwise, they really always stink. So with Sony currently leaking money like a leaky old leek, it's surprising to find that they're fisting huge handfuls of dollars towards making a Twisted Metal movie. Yep, penned and possibly directed by Brian Taylor, the chap who wrote both Crank screenplays, and a brace of other weird and wonderful movies (the latest Ghost Rider movie is one of his as was Jona...

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