Ever since I moved to London about two years ago my friends and gaming contacts have been building up. The first week I lived in in englands capital I joined the DS London meet. A Meet up for DS gamers which happened once a fortnight in a pub in London where we would drink and play DS. DS London is a fantastic community of people who are always welcoming new gamers to their community. This week they let me join [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Okamiden is a Capcom RPG for the Nintendo DS. It was released in America on the 15th March, (and Europe two days later), and is a sequel to the critically acclaimed PS2/Wii title Okami. I won’t say too much about the story so as not to spoil things for those of you intending to play this, but I will say it is set 9 months after the events of the original. It is considered an indirect [...]
The debate that has been plaguing FPS fans for what seems like centuries are First Person Shooters better on the PC or on a Console? The hardcore FPS fans out there sware by the PC, saying that using the mouse is faster and more accurate. Where console gamers like the fact that FPS games simulate shooters more by actually using your trigger finger and shooting down PC fans when they point out you can change the controller sensitivity.
Contributed by Helen Doherty Sooo Garvaos kindly agreed to let me take a detour from my usual custom of reviewing iPhone apps so that I could bring you this review of what is to perhaps be the last big Nintendo DS release: Pokémon Black/White. For those of you who’ve been living under a rock for the past 10 years: Pokémon is a long-running RPG series, which has inspired everything from movies to ice-pops (and a whole host of other crazy [...]
Recently, Nintendo held a preview event to allow people to trial the 3DS before it’s release to the general public at the end of March. I was lucky enough to be able to go along and experience it, and so I’ve been trying to cover as much as I can in as far as what I saw and what I witnessed. For the final part I’ll be looking at the First Party games that were on display; Pilotwings Resort, Nintendogs+cats, [...]
One of the current “rumours” going around is the PSP2. The reason I put rumours in quotation marks there was because “Something that everyone knows is going to happen and devs have got their hands on and are making games for it but we have to stupidly refer to it as a rumour because no-one has actually officially announced it” was a bit too long to repeatedly refer to and hilariously pointless to abbreviate into acronyms. So yeah, back to [...]
Seedlings for the city… Summer was almost over and my lone surviving Chili plant christened Stephen was not doing so well. Despite daily waterings, several hasty relocations and an inspiring word of encouragement or two only a single Chili remained; and even that was beginning to look weary. As is usual in these type of situations several ‘Helpful’ friends offered various chipper solutions to my botanical problem. Often when standing over the bedraggled Stephen I was met with a chorus [...]
The debate that has been plaguing FPS fans for what seems like centuries are First Person Shooters better on the PC or on a Console? The hardcore FPS fans out there sware by the PC, saying that using the mouse is faster and more accurate. Where console gamers like the fact that FPS games simulate shooters more by actually using your trigger finger and shooting down PC fans when they point out you can change the controller sensitivity. As for [...]
In the older days of console gaming, all systems were separate – NES games would only work on the NES, Sega Mega Drive games would only work on the Mega Drive, and so forth – but since I was young, and only ever owned one current console at a time, it wasn’t a big issue – when I had a Sega it was all I ever played, and I never had to consider the concept of compatibility. However, not much [...]
A game that really drew me to this year’s Eurogamer expo was Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. My attention span is not my greatest quality; I much prefer a good handheld game that I can play at my convenience, rather than a long RPG which can have some gamers hooked for hours on end (no names mentioned…). However, much to my surprise this game introduced me to a new small-scale version of an RPG on a handheld. This originality tweaked [...]
