Super Fun Town!
“There are already 10 people living in your town, and they owe you rent!” This is the first line of text that confronts us in Super Fun Town, owner of the most over-compensating game title in recent...
View ArticleLet’s Golf 2
For some, the dogged pursuit of realism seen in some golf games leeches all the fun out of the exercise. For such individuals there are franchises like Everybody’s Golf for Sony’s platforms, then there...
View ArticleTrash of the World
iPhone games tend to work best when they are kept simple, and Trash of the World is a great example of just how minimal iPhone games can be. This is a game of throwing rolled up balls of paper into the...
View ArticleGreedy Bankers
Greedy Bankers (aka Spooky Bankers for Halloween) is an attractive and addictive coffee break puzzler. The idea is to move gems of different colours around the screen to form larger rectangular or...
View ArticleCostume Quest
From the studio of Tim Schafer, the man responsible for such cult classics as Psychonauts, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango comes Costume Quest. Double Fine’s latest project is a cell-shaded and...
View ArticleLEGO Universe
Imagine being asked to create a new concept for a Massively Multiplayer Online game (MMO). What would you think? Where do you begin? Considering that MMOs are hardly thin on the ground these days, with...
View ArticleFishing Kings HD
Fishing is a bit of a marmite sport, some people love it and some hate it; luckily for all the haters out there Fishing Kings HD has come along so you don’t have to worry about sitting on the bank of...
View ArticleEyepet & Friends
There’s a strange and perverse joy that can be found in treating game characters badly. Once, after a long period of playing an unusual game, I noticed that the scruffy-yet-charming onscreen character...
View ArticleDance Central 3
Harmonix know a thing or two about making rhythm games. Not just that, this is their third attempt at making a dancing game specifically for the Kinect. Both of these facts are clear in this latest...
View ArticleRayman Legends – Hands On
Old game heroes never die, they just…. get revamped. Sometimes this is for the best, others not so much. In the case of Many of yesteryear’s pixelated icons, the inevitable return to the latest gaming...
View ArticleJourney: Collector’s Edition
It’s rare that you can find a game that has no apparent plotline, clear mission goals, health meters or measure of progress. But here we have three for an absolute steal of a price and while they may...
View ArticleI Am Level
Ah the 8-bit age! The days of Spectrum and Commodore computers, where bedroom programmers hammered out starkly coloured platformers and shoot-em-ups with naught but their imagination and occasional...
View ArticleWorms: Clan Wars
Worms Clan Wars is the latest in the long running series that pits invertebrate against invertebrate in a nihilistic battle to the death. Whilst the series has released regularly on consoles, it wasn’t...
View ArticleEurogamer Expo 2013 – Peripherals Take Centre Stage
The Eurogamer Expo, like most gaming conventions, can normally be split into predictable zones. There will be the big name games able to support themselves, the console makers and their latest...
View ArticlePuzzle and Dragons
There was a time, before the iPhone, when if you wanted the best in mobile phone gaming you had to go to Japan. No, really: thanks to their superior network and more powerful phones the games they had...
View ArticleFirst Impressions: Ducky Fuzz
Simplicity is often thought to be the key in gaming. And what would be more simple and relaxing than enjoying the simple bob of the ocean, with something as innocuous as a rubber ducky? Well, if that...
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