Nintendo Letter Box (known as Swapnote in America) is the latest free application to hit the 3DS eShop. It is intended to act as an email system of sorts, where users can exchange messages with other 3DS users either via Spotpass (aka online) or broadcast a message via Streetpass (where players exchange information with each other locally). It was released on the 22nd December, and is the sequel to the DS app Pictochat.. This article will firstly talk about how [...]
Gavin Storey is a DJ from Grantham. He also happens to be the owner of RadioSega, having taken over from SegaMark two years ago. He was among the attractions at the London Gaming Con, playing a stomping set of Sega tunes on Sunday evening, and has kindly agreed to do an interview for PlusXP. Firstly Gavvie, how did your set at the London Gaming Con go? I felt it went really well. I was a little disappointed that we [...]
Well its taken me over a week to sit down and write this, but it is finally my pleasure to bring to you my report from the first London Gaming Con, which I attended with fellow PlusXP members Garvaos and GuitarGirl, and contributor RandomMan. Running between the 4th and 5th December, this convention took place in the Rocket complex in North London. It’s fair to say it was quite the success, with hundreds of guests coming through the Rocket’s large [...]
This past year there have been an absolute load of announcements for games coming out in 2012 and beyond. There were also some good game releases last year as well. But there has been something that has been niggling me about some of the latest announcements which make me think that game developers are fixing things before they are broken. I.E. Rebooting game franchises. In some respects some games need in but most of the time games don’t need a [...]
For about 20 odd years now I have been in love with video games. It may come to no surprise really as I have been writing about video games here for the best part of two years now. I have grown up with all the classics such as Sonic, Mario and even Kirby. I have always been on the side of Sonic and Sega but having a gamer mate over the road who sided with Nintendo while I was growing was a [...]
Through the ages there have been some epic battles in the gaming universe. Hero’s and villains have been at each others throats since the dawn of time and there have been some truly epic battles. Link vs Ganondorf, Sonic Vs Robotnic, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, the list goes on. Ever since we have known each other there has been another epic battle going. Garvaos Vs Random Man. Ok so this battle hasn’t been written into some sacred gaming code [...]
Throughout history, we have sought ways to entertain ourselves, mostly varying from storytelling and song, to that of games. Perhaps the oldest games are variations on chess and dice, but while one taxed the mind, the other was a combination of luck a perhaps a little dexterity. In time, these evolved and became more complex, or, in other cases, more simple. But games weren’t just for recreation, they as tested skill, intelligence and physical fitness. We didn’t just want to [...]
Please do be aware that this article is chock-full of spoilers! Sorry for the delay with the Sonic Generations review, truth is its such a good game its been near impossible to tear myself away! I hope to make up for this by providing not just a regular review of this title, oh no. What you have here, indeed, is a level-by-level synopsis. Released on the 4th November 2011, Sonic Generations brings together and ties 3 major periods in Sonic’s [...]
I have always been an avid fan of Tetris; a very simple game that requires you to use shapes known as tetrominoes that are sent thrown down the screen one at a time, tasking the player to manipulate said shapes to construct horizontal lines with no gaps. These lines will disappear once they are constructed, meaning the game continues until the shapes speed down so fast you can’t control them anymore and they reach the top. This game was made [...]
Lately I have been getting my gaming mitts stuck into Assassins Creed II. I had always been reluctant to play this game due to the fact that the first game left a bad taste in my mouth; I tried and tried to get into it but it really didn’t do it for me. So I hesitated but nonetheless started the game. I have never been so engrossed in a sandbox game since probably GTA III (you would be surprised how [...]
