Nick recently commented on how Ninja Blade’s gameplay looked all to familiar… I now believe that his re-enactment of the brainstorming session behind Ninja Blade was quite correct. So off the bat, let me just say, that even though this looks like a God of War clone merged with a dash of Ninja Gaiden, that there are so much more …

You know, I think that I need to just come out and say that Wolfenstein was never such a great idea to begin with. It worked really well back in the day and I will never forget how amazing it was to experience a first person shooter for the first time. But the truth is that times have changed, and …

A press release has just hit the internet from EA confirming that Need for Speed Shift will e released later this year. Anyone who was disappointed with the last few efforts from EA and is looking for something new will be happy to know that it will be releasing on Xbox 360, PS3, PC and PSP this September. Let’s just …

In the latest issues of Famitsu – Japan’s premier gaming magazine – they published their result on a survey they ran polling gamer’s satisfaction with each of the current consoles and handhelds. There were five possible responses to each category: very satisfied, satisfied, indifferent, unsatisfied and very unsatisfied. Each was accordingly assigned a satisfaction score out of 5. Which gaming …

Our recently posted February NPD sales figures showed that Wii Fit was still selling pretty gosh-darned well. How well exactly? 6 million units well, to be precise. As of February, sales of Nintendo’s balance-board exercise simulator have exceeded that of Microsoft’s genre-defining Xbox 360 shooter Halo 3. What makes this all the more impressive for Nintendo is that Wii Fit …

  NPD, the market research folks who track stateside console and software sales have released their figures for February – and it should come as no real surprise to anybody that Nintendo continues to dominate the charts. The waggle-machine with too many unnecessary peripherals sold an astounding 753,000 units in February, while its little handheld cousin sold a total of …

On the 1st of September last year Nick posted up an articled entitled Is the PS3 really catching up to the Xbox 360? where he looked at the sales gap between the Xbox 360 and PS3 and then working out how long it would take for the PS3 to overtake the Xbox 360. At the time it was worked out …

Electronic Entertainment Design and Research has teamed up with Edge magazine to do some research into the gaming market and the trends that follow it. First up is a nice and simple chart showing how good the average Xbox 360 game is… so if your better half is planning on surprising you for your birthday you may want to plant …