Floating Cloud God Saves The Pilgrims review
Dakko Dakko’s second PSP mini offers a deceptively simple slice of arcade action.
Dakko Dakko’s second PSP mini offers a deceptively simple slice of arcade action.
Grasshopper Manufacture has announced Killer Is Dead, a new game directed by Goichi "Suda51" Suda which, the studio promises will retain the essence of Suda's previous assassin games, Killer 7 and No More Heroes. More >
1A new Vita system update, version 1.66, has been released, and it fixes an issue preventing members of the PlayStation Plus service from playing Minis given away with their subscriptions on Sony's new handheld. More >
Harmonix has announced a return to its roots with Rock Band Blitz, a music game for the console download services that bears a more than passing resemblance to Frequency and Amplitude. More >
1Capcom has defended the storage of planned DLC on Street Fighter X Tekken discs to the Better Business Bureau, arguing that there is "no distinction" between content stored on a disc or offered as a download. More >
2Created as part of Sony's PlayStation C.A.M.P. (Creator Audition Mash-up Project!) initiative, which allows Japanese gamers to submit their ideas for possible development, Tokyo Jungle sees the city free of humans and overrun by oddly dressed, pugnacious animals. More >
FIFA Street is the UK all-formats number one for a third successive week. EA's five-a-side football game retains top spot despite sales falling 44 per cent, ahead of Mass Effect 3, which rises one place to number two. Another EA title, the newly released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, debuts in third. More >
2D fighting game Skullgirls will be released for Xbox Live Arcade on April 11, developer Reverge Labs has confirmed. The date was revealed by Peter Bartholow, Reverge's community manager, in a post on NeoGaf, confirming the date and admitting Microsoft had until the last minute been pushing for its release a week earlier. A recent leak on xbox.com suggested the game would be released on April 4. More >
A group of players unhappy with Activision and Infinity Ward's post launch support for Modern Warfare 3 are calling on the wider community to join them in not playing the game for a day in protest. Revealed in a YouTube video, the campaign urges players to refrain from playing Modern Warfare 3 online for 24 hours on April 20, and lays out a litany of problems with the game that its developer has thusfar declined to fix. More >
5ET goes home in Trapdoor Inc’s energetic stealth-action blast.
Music label EMI is suing 4mm Games and Terminal Reality, accusing the two studios of failing to pay royalties owed from 2010 music game Def Jam Rapstar. According to the Hollywood Reporter, EMI says that the game's developers failed to secure the proper licensing rights for 54 songs either wholly or in part owned by EMI and its subsidiaries. More >
Thatgamecompany's PS3 adventure Journey has been named the fastest-selling game of all time on the US PlayStation Store. The news was revealed by studio co-founder Jenova Chen in a post on the PlayStation Blog, in which he pays tribute to the players who helped Journey shatter PSN sales records. More >
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is the new number one in the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. More >
Delightfully squirm-inducing tension and violence is muted by some poor design decisions.
11Japanese developer Vanillaware has insisted it hasn't cancelled PS3 and Vita action-RPG Dragon's Crown. Fears were raised over the status of the game earlier this week when Amazon told US customers it was cancelling pre-orders for the game, and removed the listing from its site entirely. More >
A gore-soaked trudge that's almost as lifeless as its antagonists.
1A more immediate entry in the revered fighting series, but also a less accomplished one.
One of the most subversive, sublime street-racing games ever made.
15Gaming charity Child's Play asked the organiser of the Retake Mass Effect campaign to stop accepting donations because some of those that pledged thought they were helping fund development of a new ending to the game. More >
9A loud, proud and hyperactive celebration of automotive violence.
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