Octomania is a straightforward puzzler with a presentation that should seem instantly familiar to Puyo Puyo fans, featuring similar cutesy anime-style graphics, character-specific attacks, and somewhat humorous–though shallow–storylines. But unlike your average block buster, this game has you combining octopuses on a grill. It’s not as tasty as it sounds, however, because Octomania dwells entirely […]

EA and Midway share the rights to NBA-licensed arcade basketball games. As a result, the NBA Ballers franchise is released every other year, with EA’s NBA Street series occupying the year in between. This year is NBA Ballers’ time to shine and that didn’t happen, which means it’s a down year for arcade hoops. NBA […]

Like a string of handkerchiefs pulled from a magician’s sleeve, Electronic Arts has produced a seemingly never-ending line of Harry Potter games and spin-offs on virtually every possible platform. Beyond the games based on the blockbuster movies, EA has also released Quidditch World Cup–a fantasy sports game based on a competition that played a significant […]

The British Board of Film Classification should need no introduction to British gamers, after making headline news over its banning of Rockstar’s Manhunt 2, and the ensuing court case that Rockstar eventually won.

This was shortly followed by Dr Tanya Byron’s government-commissioned Byron Report, which examined the effects of games and the Internet on children in […]

Lego Batman Impressions
Batman is the next universe to receive the Lego video game treatment, and we got a first look at how the dynamic duo are shaping up in brick form.

Fresh from the success of Lego Star Wars, developer Traveller’s Tales is now applying its winning formula to DC Comics’ superhero world of Batman. With […]