Japan Gaming Guide

If you’ve been hankering for a bit of adventuring on your DS, help is at hand. Pocket Gamer have published a guide on running the old Lucas Arts graphic adventures via ScummVM. It’s pretty fiddly looking and it will probably help if your already familiar with homebrewing – although there’s a homebrew guide on their […]

  Bioshock, the spiritual sequel to the System Shock games is getting ever closer. Every glimpse we get of Rapture’s brooding streets makes us a little bit more excited about playing it – and we only have a little longer to wait until its August release. Eurogamer recently interviewed Irrational Games’ Ken Levine for the […]

  All time classic adventure game Myst will arrive on the Nintendo DS in November, according to Computerandvideogames.com. Myst is one of the biggest selling games of all time having shifted over 12 million copies. It’s something of a love-hate title for gamers – some people love the slow paced, cerebral puzzling – others just […]

Its been a long time coming, but here, finally is our top 10: 10. System Shock 2 (PC) One of gaming’s darkest visions is of the crazed computer trying to exterminate its creators. The vision is realized perfectly here, the star of the show being the audio narrative, both from Shodan, an evil hybrid of […]

A few demos have gone up on the Japanese marketplace recently.  Be sure to check out Armoured Core 4, GRAW 2, Star Trek Legacy and UEFA Champions League 2006/07. Also, Lumines Live has at last found its way over here – it retains the controversial pricing structure – 1200 points for a pretty sparse main […]

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that Super Mario Galaxy will be released later this year.  Wii owners will also be getting a new Mii channel, allowing them to enter their creations into online competitions.  Miyamoto also told of his wife’s conversion to gaming stating ‘If we can combat my wife, we can combat anybody.’

This years smaller E3 will take place from July 11th-13th. The exact format of the show has yet to be revealed, expect more details over the next month.

Sony are set to launch an online community service for playstation 3. Users will be able to create an avatar, build them a home and then fill it with furniture, buy clothes and take part in games and activities with other users. Most items in the game world will be purchased through an online store, […]

A teaser image on Bungie’s website says Halo 3 is out in autumn.  The public beta is due to start in late spring.  Japanese release date?  We don’t know! Bungie

A new website has launched offering enhanced functionality to the wii internet channel. Head to www.wiiminder.com to get tabbed browsing and bookmark organisation. Go there in a regular browser to see a video of the new service.