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Did Gamescom miss Nintendo and Microsoft? The reason why both platform holders were absent remains somewhat of a mystery. Microsoft has billed this Christmas as one of its biggest, with many of its biggest brands due. Nintendo has a new console to launch. So it’s a little perplexing that neither …
Read More »Irrational pulls 85+ Metacritic score from job ad
Controversial job posting removes review rating from requirements
Read More »Irrational demands 85+ Metacritic score in job ad
Job seekers required to have worked on critically acclaimed game as according to the review score aggregation site
Read More »Max Payne 3 reviews are live
Publisher Rockstar has lifted the review embargo on Max Payne 3, which hits the US today and arrives in the UK this Friday. At the time of writing the game has an 87 per cent average on Metacritic, including three perfect scores. Max Payne 3 marks an exceptional comeback for …
Read More »The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings review roundup
The first UK reviews for Namco Bandai’s The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings have gone live, and critics are delighted with what the former PC-only title has to offer. While it runs on what would have been medium graphics on the PC version, this is a very small cross to …
Read More »Kid Icarus scores 40/40 in Famitsu
Ahead of its UK release on March 23rd, Kid Icarus: Uprising has received high praise from Japan’s weekly games mag Famitsu. Andriasang reports that the latest issue awards Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS game 40/40 – the highest score it can hand out. Famitsu works differently to most consumer mags in that …
Read More »2011 REVIEW: GAMEfest vs Eurogamer
September marked the battle of the consumer events, with Eurogamer facing off against GAME. It began at BAFTA’s video game awards in March, when the retailer announced GAMEfest would take place in Birmingham NEC between September 16th to 18th. One week before Eurogamer Expo. Eurogamer MD Rupert Loman told MCV …
Read More »2011 REVIEW: High Street Horror Story
There’s no hiding from the fact that 2011 has been a year to forget for retailers. The bleak news on the High Street kicked off with troubles at HMV. The situation was made worse by over-zealous press predicting the imminent demise of the entertainment retailer – which issued three profit …
Read More »Games industry piles on pressure for education reform
The government has admitted the way schools teach computing is flawed – now the UKIE-backed Next Gen Skills campaign wants games firms to help change the National Curriculum. Earlier this week, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)?published a response to the Livingstone-Hope Next Gen report, which criticised how …
Read More »REVIEW: London Games Conference 2011
The market is in a curious, contradictory state.Going by Chart-Track numbers, the UK boxed market has just had its highest-grossing weekend ever, but not by selling the most games. More games were sold in the comparable 2010 week than the last. So what’s going on? Games are doing better than …
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