Game News, Reviews and Cheats

Its official: Games will force your girlfriend to dump you. Well Ok, it’s not quite that bad, but research released this week has suggested that heavy amounts of gaming and other online activities can put a strain on a relationship.
 
Around 20% of women have dumped a partner directly because of the online gaming habits, [...]

Following on from our earlier post this week, we’re going to take a look at the real gaming blockbusters this week, and which ones you should pick up if you’re not lucky enough to be able to grab all of them. If you’re looking for more casual games, scroll down to our previous post below [...]

2009 has been a great year for gaming. We’ve seen sequels to some of the most popular games of the last few years including Forza 3, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Uncharted 2 – and that’s only naming a few.
For those who wanted something new to play we’ve also had the massive [...]

This week we’re continuing our Christmas theme, and why not? Christmas is a massive time for gamers, and some of the year’s biggest games get released between November and December in time for us all to rush to the shops and buy them for Christmas. 2009 has been a good year for gaming, so let’s [...]

Although it hasn’t moved as quickly as some people – Nintendo certainly included – may have liked, Wii Sports Resort is fast moving up the charts and becoming a premier title for Nintendo this Christmas.

According to Iwata during a speech by company president, Satoru Iwata this week at a Nintendo Investors briefing, the game [...]

After the big announcements from Microsoft and Sony, eyes turned to Nintendo to deliver something special, especially considering that the other two companies were clearly trying to play catch up with the company in terms of control systems. There wasn’t much spectacular from the Nintendo camp this year however, mostly sequels and add-ons to existing [...]

It’s rare for anyone in the videogame world to get excited by a movie license, and that pessimism is not without reason. We’ve had a few well thought out, even classic games come from movies such as the N64 masterpiece, Goldeneye. However, generally movie licences are tacked on, throw away rubbish that run through [...]

Love it or hate it, Spore isn’t going to be going anywhere anytime soon. The simulation game originally designed for the PC was hyped to be something really special – a simulation game that followed a species through an entire evolutionary process, from microbe to space traveller. However, despite – or perhaps due too [...]

Many decades ago, playing computer games was all about moving a small blob across a screen, usually away or towards other slightly differently shaped blobs. It was all about response time and usually involved robots or aliens. As time progressed the systems we used to play games changed but for a long time, the things [...]

We all know the Nintendo Wii is best known for its lean towards the more casual attempts at gaming. While there have been quite a few recent offerings aiming to bring more hardcore gaming to the console in the form of titles like House of the Dead: Overkill and Madworld, these haven’t [...]