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Review: Mario Kart 64 (Wii Virtual Console)

May 5, 2012

Mario Kart 64/N64/Reviews/Virtual Console

Mario Kart is easily the biggest of Nintendo’s Mario spin-off games – for good reason. The first title on the Super Nintendo popularized a subgenre of racing; one that would give way to many clones over the years. The same praise can’t be said for its first sequel, but it’s…

Review: Dark Scavenger (PC)

May 5, 2012

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Well, it’s not every day you see an RPG mix it with a point-and-click adventure game. That’s what’s happened here, but as odd as the mix is, this indie title gets it right… most of the time. Dark Scavenger is an interesting mix of genres. It harkens back to the…

Gameloft has spectacular first quarter

May 4, 2012

Gameloft/sales figures/smartphones/Tablet

Smartphone and tablet developer and publisher, Gameloft, has announced a spectacular first quarter for 2012. Total sales for he quarter hit EUR44.8 million which is an increase of 14 per cent on the same time period last year. Asia-Pacific and Latin America are the biggest revenue earners for the publisher,…

Game localisation is not all fun and games: An interview with Nyu Media founder, Seon King

May 4, 2012

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Nyu Media is one of the exciting new startups in the games industry. It’s a localisation company that has already given us the rather excellent eXceed Collection and Cherry Tree High Comedy Club. It specialises in Doujin games (games created by hobbyists), and has a real eye for quality. I…

stop-casting-yogs-into-my-cave-yogscave

May 4, 2012

Free/PC/sanctum/Steam/Weird News

Released over a year ago, Sanctum is still a hard game to describe to a normal video game player without getting a weird look; A combination of a first-person shooter and a tower-defense game that allows four players to create and destroy their own structures on the same map at the…

Elder Scrolls MMO? Way to kill your brand, Bethesda

May 3, 2012

bethesda/Elder Scrolls/Opinion

The big news in the gaming industry this week has been, of course, the unveiling that the next Elder Scrolls game will be an online MMO. I already expressed my frustration with that idea when it was just a rumour, but given that it’s all official now I’d like to…

Elder Scrolls MMO? Way to kill your brand, Bethesda

May 3, 2012

bethesda/Elder Scrolls/Opinion

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing gets updated on iOS

May 3, 2012

Sega/Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing/update

Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed may be on the horizon, but that hasn’t stopped Sega from updating a current version of the game. The chief among the list of updates has to be the inclusion of two new playable characters form Sonic’s universe: Knuckles the echidna and Shadow the hedgehog. Other…

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing gets updated on iOS

May 3, 2012

Sega/Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing/update

Retro Review: Mario Golf (Wii Virtual Console)

May 3, 2012

Mario Golf/N64/Reviews/Virtual Console

Mario is quite the athlete. He goes kart racing, plays tennis, and has even gone to the Olympics. The quality of his adaptations varies depending on the game, but at least Mario Golf is one of the very best.If you’ve played any cartoony golf game in the past few years,…

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