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Review: Fight Night Round 4, Xbox 360, £49.99
3:34pm Friday 3rd July 2009
The Fight Night series has been a rip-roaring success on next-gen consoles, with Round 3 raising the bar in terms of jaw-dropping graphics and gameplay mechanics in the ring.
Have your say »Review: Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Wii, £39.99
3:33pm Friday 3rd July 2009
It’s been 25 years since Ghostbusters first lit up the big screen and to commemorate that event, Atari has brought the ghost-hunting troupe to the small screen in Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
Review: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, PS3, £39.99
3:36pm Friday 3rd July 2009
FLitting from Autobot to Decepticon side in the engaging single-player campaign soon shows you that the controls have been tightened.
Interview: Joe Walsh of The Eagles
3:05pm Friday 3rd July 2009
AMERICAN rock legends Eagles are bringing their Long Road Out of Eden tour to the UK and playing two dates in Manchester this month.
Interview: Little Boots
3:03pm Friday 3rd July 2009
She’s bright, she's bubbly and she’s from Blackpool. We spoke to electro-pop princess Little Boots who is being billed as the new Kylie.
Review: Fuel, Xbox 360, £44.99
3:22pm Friday 26th June 2009
It’s been well-hyped that Fuel boasts the gaming world’s largest ever racing environment, with more than 5,000 square miles of spectacular wilderness for you to explore.
Review: Album - Dinosaur Jr - Farm
3:24pm Friday 26th June 2009
‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the order of the day on Dinosaur Jr’s second post-reformation album.
Review: Album - Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another
3:25pm Friday 26th June 2009
Having released their rapturously-received debut Curses in 2007, it’s been all quiet on the Future Of The Left front since.
Review: Album - Spinal Tap - Back From The Dead
3:27pm Friday 26th June 2009
Released to mark the 25th anniversary of the cult classic and seminal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, this is the first new album from England’s Loudest Heavy Metal Band since Break Like The Wind in 1992.
Review: The Munchables, Wii, £29.99
3:21pm Friday 26th June 2009
The Munchables is one for the children but a younger audience will simply adore coming to the rescue of a world being attacked by alien veggies and fruits.
Review: Prototype, PS3, £49.99
5:11pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Prototype is a further addition to the recent flurry of over-the-top open-world adventures, this time with super-powers that would make Grand Theft Auto IV’s Niko Bellic run for cover.
Review: Big Family Games, Wii, £19.99
5:12pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
You don’t have to be performing in front of a crowd of 50,000 people to get a real kick out of sports, and Big Family Games takes things back to where sporting experiences begin - your own backyard.
Review: EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis, Wii, £39.99
5:13pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
While it seems like Nadal and Federer will forever slug it out for tennis’s top prizes, you now have a chance to make your own charge for the championship as your chosen favourite player, courtesy of EA Sports’s latest foray into the world of strawberries and cream, ball boys and big serves.
Review: Album - Bert Jansch: LA Turnaround/Santa Barbara Honeymoon/A Rare Conundrum
5:15pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Anyone frequently name-checked by Jimmy Page and Neil Young as a key influence, as Bert Jansch is, has got to be something pretty special, right?
Review: How Sweet It Is.. The Motown Show @ Mechanics, Burnley
11:01am Monday 15th June 2009
The magic of Tamla Motown refuses to die and the packed house at the Mechanics was testament to the fact it is likely to live on forever.
Interview: Hollie Steel
4:55pm Monday 15th June 2009
THIS time eight weeks ago no-one had heard of Hollie Steel.
Review: Album – The Legends – Over And Over
9:00am Monday 15th June 2009
MULTI-talented Swede Johan Angergård is in several bands, so it's no surprise that he likes to swoop around from genre to genre:.
Review: Excitebots: Trick Racing, Wii, £29.99
When it comes to racing games, consider Nintendo's Excitebots: Trick Racing at the opposite end of the spectrum from realistic simulations, such as Sony's Gran Turismo series or Microsoft's Forza Motorsport games.
Review: EA Sports Active, Wii, £34.99
Solo fitness work can be a bit of a thankless task, with perhaps only your wobbling waistline for motivation.
Review: Blue Man Group @ Arena, Manchester
12:31pm Tuesday 26th May 2009
The cloud of gloom hanging over England threatens to turn even the best men sad.
Interview: Phil Hendricks of The Stiffs
12:29pm Friday 22nd May 2009
BLACKBURN’S own veteran punk band The Stiffs will be making a rare live appearance at Darwen Live, 30 years after releasing their very first single.
Interview: Aurelien Bernard of Blue Man Group
11:50am Friday 22nd May 2009
After already wowing more than two million people across the USA, Blue Man Group's “ultimate concert experience” Megastar World Tour is embarking on its first series of UK shows which comes to Manchester’s MEN Arena on Sunday.
Plants and zombies get thumbs up for fun factor
12:19pm Thursday 21st May 2009
Plants vs. Zombies *PC *free to try or £13 to buy. After clicking though the disappointing Bejeweled Twist late last year, many players were concerned PopCap Games, one of the world’s top “casual game” companies, had lost its mojo.
Interview: Bernard Thresher of The Lancashire Hotpots
2:08pm Monday 18th May 2009
YOU know you’ve made it when two girls come up to you in Morrisons and ask you to sign a reduced packet of sprouts,” joked Bernard Thresher, at 27 the youngest member of comedy folk band The Lancashire Hotpots.
Review: Single – Metric – Sick Muse
11:50am Thursday 21st May 2009
METRIC used to be rather interesting, but with this single they seem to have lost their mojo.
Reviews
11:14am Thursday 14th May 2009
Velvet Assassin. Xbox 360. £39.99 Taking a different twist on the usually frenetic ammo-happy WWII titles, Velvet Assassin is a stealth-action title inspired by real-life British secret agent Violette Szabo. You assume the role of Violette Summer, heading deep behind enemy lines with no support or official backing from the British Government. You risk your life fighting to defeat the German war machine one stealth mission at a time. The combination of lush, surreal visuals and the excellent stealth combat system provides an enjoyable gaming experience, twisting the war genre on its head to show you don’t have to go in all guns blazing to win out against the Nazi regime. It’s tense, and will have you engrossed throughout — which makes you wish the game was a bit longer. But, brevity aside, this is a cracking little game that’s well worth checking out.
Pick of the best
11:13am Thursday 14th May 2009
Elite (BBC — 1984) As one of the first games to use wireframe 3D graphics, space trading game Elite was a gaming gem by Cambridge undergraduates David Braben and Ian Bell. It was originally made for the BBC Micro, a lovely little computer which was used in schools up and down Britain but it was soon ported to many other machines.
Games heaven at Urbis
11:09am Thursday 14th May 2009
You wouldn’t usually put Pac-Man and plenty of champagne in the same sentence together, never mind the same room. But that’s what happened on Tuesday at the launch of a videogames exhibition at the Urbis in Manchester.
Gearing up as games showcase goes live
11:08am Thursday 14th May 2009
It took film 100 years to reach a level of maturity. It has taken games just 35.
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