Jul 30, 2010

It has been reported by Bloomberg of Japan that the price and release date for the 3DS will be on the 29th of September. It is not clear whether this information will be specific to Japan or will include details for the consoles worldwide release. However, more details may be released at the end of year conferences held by Nintendo of Japan and America. A UK...

Jul 28, 2010

Heading rapidly towards the Christmas period the big hitter is going to be Rock Band 3 with its new instruments and billion button controllers however the originals continue to extend their franchise with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. The first set of tracks included have been announced including re-recordings, largely to ensure master recordings are available....

Jul 26, 2010

Enjoy Your Massage! seems a confusingly titled game, purely because it suggests that you will somehow be getting a massage. However, the game itself acutally involves waggling the wiimote in a sequence to rub down a female client’s back. A section of the client’s back will light up accompanied by a tune, and other sections will light up with...

Jul 26, 2010

This years Comic Con has shown that comics, graphic novels and animation based on video games are big business. The newest announcements to come from the show is that both Silent Hill and Epic Mickey have had comic books announced, with Epic Mickey also getting a graphic novel. In an interview with FEARnet, Tom Waltz discussed the comic book which will start...

Jul 24, 2010

It seems like novel and animation tie-ins are big business these days. It has been announced that Dead space is getting a new graphic novel, titled Dead Space Salvage as well as a new animated movie, titled Dead Space Aftermath. Dead Space Salvage focus’s a salvage team finding and boarding the Ishimura and encountering awakening necromorphes and facing...

Jul 23, 2010

I love the game Just Dance. It’s just so FUN and INNOVATIVE and CHALLENGING and - - yeah, okay. I’m lying. I can’t help it. I know that this is not impartial journalism at it’s best but seriously – I’ve played and tried to like the game (not least to find out what the feck the fuss is about) but … well, it does nothing...

Jul 22, 2010

Just for the record when I say ‘We Sing Robbie Williams’, that is just the game title not a confession. I hope thats very, very clear. As music games don’t appear to be going anywhere, “We Sing Robbie Williams” is adding itself to the pack with a Wii title that will feature 25 tracks from the british performer. Angels, Rock DJ,...

Jul 2, 2010

We’ve all come to love (or hate) the classic Nintendo characters such as Kirby, Mario and Bowser. We’ve seen them change from console to console and game to game, but Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto reckons it’s time for a change. According to Japan’s Sankei Newspaper, when asked about Nintendo’s “next game” at a June 29...