Luke Plunkett

Here, The Ten Best-Selling Games In The UK For 2008

We’ve seen Japan’s. America’s will be in, oh, next week. So for now, let’s all take a look at the ten best-selling games in the UK for all of 2008, shall we? Regular followers of our weekly British sales charts will find no surprises here. The top four games are published by Nintendo, the fifth…

New Dawn Of War II Trailer: Tyranids!

THQ have released this new trailer for Relic’s upcoming RTS, Dawn of War II. Shows the Tyranids. And how they’re going to a royal pain in the Imperium’s ass.

Nintendo, Microsoft Sued Over Parental Control System

All three current generation consoles have a form of parental lock-out controls. They’re a good idea. A good idea that has, however, landed Nintendo and Microsoft in court. Around Christmas time, 36 companies – including Best Buy, Dell, DirecTV, Motorola, Tivo and Wal-Mart – were sued by Guardian Media Technologies, who hold a patent for…

Relax, Klonoa Is Getting An American Release

Klonoa is coming to the Wii. We learned that at TGS last year, but seeing as the PlayStation original was so roundly ignored, there was never a guarantee they’d bother with a Western release. BUt it’s OK! Namco Bandai have confirmed today that, yes, Klonoa will be coming to North American Wiis sometime in 2009.…

Final Fantasy XIII Site Opens, Has New Stuff

Square Enix have gotten around to opening up a dedicated website for Final Fantasy XIII. Within? Aside from the soothing piano score, there are more screenshots (not scans!) than you’ll know what to do with. It’s hard telling which are new and which aren’t, what with the number of scans we’ve seen over the past…

Build Your Own Profanity-Filled Mario Level

Retro Sabotage, back at it. Their latest work? This create-a-Mario tool, which allows you to customise a few lines of text that appear in-game as giant banners. Made of coins. So you can fill in your name, your mum’s name, a season’s greeting, whatever tickles your fancy. Your imagination’s the limit! Golden Words [Retro Sabotage]

A Sulky, Expensive Cloud Strife Statue

Can’t appeal more directly to the soppy FFVII fan than this, a 13″ statue of Cloud standing, sword over shoulder, amidst “the protecting light of Aerith’s church with flowers of remembrance at his feet”. What, no bloody, lifeless Aeris corpse at his feet? You’ve gone soft, Sideshow Collectibles, you’ve gone soft.

Killzone 2 Dated For UK, Europe

It’s OK, geography fanboys. We know the UK is technically part of Europe. But we’re dealing with two different dates here – one for Britain, one for the continent – so cut us some slack. According to several British retailers, Killzone 2 will be out in Ol’ Blighty on February 27. Sony aren’t coming out…

PAL PlayStation Store Update

Slim pickings this week, as the PlayStation store warms itself back up after a frosty, lonely winter. Just the one demo, some rubbish music game tracks and some practical, if unheralded, PSP content. Pick of the bunch is probably the LotR Conquest demo, along with the PSP’s Go! Explore stuff, since if you have to…

Not So Much Raptor Safari As Raptor Choplifter

We’re big fans of Flashbang. Big fans of Velociraptor Safari. And big fans of the iPhone! Best way to combine all three would be an iphone Velociraptor Safari, but this is almost as good. It’s Raptor Copter (iTunes link), a new iPhone game by Flashbang that takes the spirit of 3D, jeep-based Raptorcide and moves…

So, Which Games/Publishers Have The Best Resale Value?

Let us find out. Video Game Price Charts have crunched the numbers to come up with which games, publishers and platforms had the best (and worst) resale values in 2008. Tracking the sale prices of games over both eBay and Amazon then comparing them to the original recommended retail price, VGPC’s results show that amongst…

Cave Story Wii Has A Little Extra Something

Cave Story Wii isn’t the same Cave Story you already know and already love. For starters, it’s getting a graphical facelift, character art and all. But that’s not all; it’s also getting downloadable content. Yes, posted on the game’s official blog yesterday was the following: We’re still working away at Cave Story trying to make…

Bon Appetit, New Resident Evil 5 Screens

New Resident Evil 5 Screens! That’s the good news. The bad news is that there are five screens and not a single one shows a zombie riding a dirt bike. Sloppy, Capcom!

Blizzard Can’t Design A Starcraft II Unit, Want You To Decide

Blizzard are in a pickle! They’ve got two designs down on paper for the game’s Protoss Dark Templar unit. And just can not decide which one to use in the game. So they want you to. For the next month or so, visitors to the game’s official website will be able to cast their vote…

Half-Life 2’s Graphics Dragged Kicking & Screaming Into 2009

Half-Life 2? Only one of the best games ever. Sadly, it’s getting on in years. It’s not ugly, by any stretch of the imagination, but in 2009, it can look better. Which is where the latest build of the FakeFactory mod for the game comes in. For a few years now, FakeFactory have been updating…

Killzone 2 Footage: Ragdolls, Bullets & Bugs

.html?r=1&type=wmv Couple of new Killzone 2 clips from the CES showroom floor (so excuse the quality). The first one, showing the game’s ragdoll death physics, is good for a chuckle. The second one? Shows some bugs. .html?r=1&type=wmv Not technical bugs, mind you. Bug bugs, in a clip showcasing some of the finer details of the…

Sony: We Announced Home Too Early

As far as consumers go, I think Sony showed Home too early. Allowed it to build expectations for too long, to the point where the finished product was never going to meet said expectations. But hey, that’s just me. I can’t speak for consumers, and Sony aren’t speaking for consumers either. But what about developers?…

The Men, And Women, Of Video Game Voice Work

There’s a neat feature up on Gameplayer at the moment. It’s pulling back the veil on the voice actors behind 70 of gaming’s greatest characters (though they cheat on some, and others aren’t so great). The cheaters are using guys like John “Bender” Di Maggio, who have done voice work for tons of characters, and…

There Are 25 Million Copies Of Halo In The Wild

Yup, more from Robbie Bach’s supporting role during yesterday’s Microsoft CES keynote. While rappin’, he announced that since the release of the first Halo, over 25 million games in the series have been sold. That’s across all three games across both platforms, so we’re looking at an average of five million sales for each. Impressive!…

Media Molecule’s Metal Gear Solid 4 Posters, Box Art

Metal Gear Solid 4’s promotional campaign was quite easy on the eye. But it was also serious. These Metal Gear Solid 4 posters by LittleBigPlanet creators Media Molecule are less serious. There are three sackified posters to ogle, along with a printer-friendly, high-resolution version of a replacement box art for Metal Gear Solid 4. Or…