Author: Ian

The Mother series, or known as Earthbound in the West, is a series that has an almost fanatical following. But unlike many fanatical followers, the people behind the communities that make Earthbound online such a joy to be are talented, articulate and interesting people. Recently, one of the translators of the fan-translated Mother 3 has…

THQ are a company that aren’t afraid to venture into the unknown mist and have a reach around. Sometimes upon retraction their arm is covered in green slimey goo, such as their TV film venture with Sci-Fi and othertimes they come back with a bouquet of flowers. Enter the Metro, a short live action film,…

Another week, another set of sales stats. At least these stats don’t have graphs, pie charts and all sorts of other nasty math information that makes most people weep with fear. Personally, I like a good graph with year on year differential, but that’s just me.

Unless you’ve been living in a Cave, it’s hard to not know about the success the Japanese based developer, Cave, have had with shooter games. We’ve reviewed one and have one on the way already! However, the global success of the company’s games haven’t helped their finances unfortunately and they’ve had to cancel two games.

It’s not easy “out there”, Greece failing, half of Europe falling apart and the world money market just not really existing anymore. Almost everyone is feeling some sort of pain and game developers and publishers are no different than the rest of us. This is one of the reasons why THQ have had to delay…

The Nintendo DS is still huge in Japan, in fact, it’s still pretty huge everywhere and as such companies are still interested in developing for it. This is a bit of a strange development, but a car manufacturer have managed to make a little addon that makes the Nintendo DS work with the car’s in…

Once upon a time he was the most recognised character in the world, he had theme parks created for him and in the 90s had some of the best games on the Megadrive made by him. These days, Mickey Mouse has been forgotten by all these new fangled cartoons but this hasn’t stopped Disney from…

Stop animation is something that’s existed for a trillion years and also something that many people associate to be British, presumably because of the quirky Wallace and Gromit and Morph animations that are so popular, even today. Whilst the clay moulding has in many cases moved to CGI the soul remains as Nintendo clearly believe…

Whilst some developers have been increasingly vocal about their criticism of the Xbox Live platform in recent years, it would appear that a game with a cult following, or a good game, will sell. Regardless of price or what platform you sell it on.

Fighting games are ten a penny these days and few can live up to the enjoyment that Super Smash Bros, an essentially non-fighty, button bashing game, can bring to the table. So it’s little wonder why Capcom are a little disappointed with recent fighting game sales.