It would seem that the UK has been particularly taken with the latest addition to the legendary fighter series.  Street Fighter 4 has entered the UK charts in top position, displacing Wii Fit from the top of the podium.  Interestingly, the statistical break down shows the more copies were sold on the...

Release: Mar 3 2009 (US), Feb 27 2009 (UK) Developer: Ensemble Studios Publisher: Microsoft Genre: Real-time strategy Age Rating: Teen (ESRB), 16+ (PEGI) An FPS classic goes RTS, on a console… it better be good. Let’s be honest, the real time strategy (RTS) genre has hardly had a glorious...

Release: Feb 17 2009 Developer: Rockstar North Publisher: Rockstar Games Genre: Action, Adventure ***Post-release content is a somewhat different beast to full retail titles and as such we do not currently award fixed scores to such products. The Lost and Damned redefines what the increasingly fashionable...

Release: Jan 10 2009 (US), Jan 13 2009 (UK) Develop: Monolith Publisher: Warner Brothers Interactive Genre: First-person shooter FEAR 2 is a game with an identity problem.  Since its earliest stages of development – and the whole Vivendi, Monolith, Warner Brothers war over who owns the copyright to...

Release: Jan 21 2009 (US), Jan 31 2009 (UK) Developer: Black Box Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: Alternative Sports Skate 2 is a difficult game; it’s a game of skill.  In many ways it evokes a sense of gaming’s retro past in just how taxing it can be; both o your command of the control...

SEGA have today announced that they will be publishing a new addition to legendary arcade-tennis series.  Due for release this May, Virtua Tennis 2009 will be making an appearance on Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. At this point the full roster lists have yet to be released but Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer...

The much anticipated Bionic Commando will be available on Xbox 360 and Playstation this May throughout Europe, Capcom have confirmed.   At present the PC release has yet to be finalised, with Capcom only able to tell us that it will be available sometime in the months following the console launch. Bionic...

Fresh off the news that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be hitting stores some time early next year, DICE have let slip the first tantalising details as to what we can expect from the sequel.  According to the EA press release, Bad Company 2 will “[introduce] a level of fervor to vehicular warfare...

Microsoft have proudly announced that that the number of Xbox owners that have viewed movies through the Netflix service – a premium addition to the Xbox Live Marketplace implemented within the NXE – has passed the 1 million mark. The users have managed to combine for a total of 1.5 billion...

An interesting post on the Playstation Blog describes how you celebrate Valentine’s Day with a little help from LittleBigPlanet.  The completely free ‘LittleBigPlanet Valentine’s Day Theme Pack’ includes a ‘McLovin’ SackBoy costume along with a wide selection of stickers...