Do you catch Sonic’s drift?
It has been said that during the winter, sales of retro games boom as a lot of people spend their evenings staying in the warm and thus need entertaining. We wouldnâ€t be surprised if a few people hope...
View ArticleThe drake that laid the golden Drake
Proving that us videogamers really are just big kids, a lot of videogame related toys have sold for stunning amounts on eBay this month. The most noteworthy of these is a golden vinyl Uncharted 3 toy...
View ArticleFuse – does it blow?
If there hasnâ€t been a new shooter from EA released every month this year so far, then it certainly feels like it. Fuse is this monthâ€s offering, which originally started out under the guise of...
View ArticleNintendo Game Watch: Mario & Zelda not at their best
The tech press is getting in a right froth over smart watches. Honestly, don’t they remember the Game Watch? The calculator watch had been around since the 1970s, and a decade later the next step was...
View Article“Got, need, got, need”– it’s Merlin’s 1992 Nintendo sticker album
It pleases us greatly to learn that sticker albums are still around in this day and age of handheld consoles and mobile phones that do everything. Simply owning a sticker album allowed instant social...
View ArticleNintendo Adventure Books: probably not due a revival
In the ’80s and early ’90s, choose your own adventure gamebooks were quite the craze. There’s been a resurgence of sorts recently, both on paper and digitally, chiefly of the fondly remembered Fighting...
View ArticleXbox One million
Literally mere minutes before this weekâ€s UK chart went live it was reported that a million Xbox One consoles were sold during launch. It stands to reason that around 140-150k of those were sold in...
View ArticleTalking about Let’s Go Camping!
Texas based indie developer Steamburger Studios have just launched their campaign on Kickstarter to help fund the development of their colourful new camping adventure game, Let’s Go Camping! We had...
View ArticleCubemen 2 – hip to be square?
Itâ€s a moderately eventful week for the Nintendo eShop(s), if only because numerous Zelda games receive a price drop this Thursday to tie-in with Hyrule Warriors†release later this month. As an...
View Article2015: The year Nintendo comes out fighting
The third year in a consoleâ€s life is usually a jubilant one. By now the console will be well established, with a user base large enough to attract studios large and small, not to mention having a...
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