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Review of the year - video games

13 Dec 2007

What promised to be a rather mundane year in gaming turned out to be a surprising 12 months. Two lessons were learned in 2007: firstly, discount Nintendo’s infectious innovation at your peril. And secondly, punters can’t get enough of imaginative…

Hitman

Hitman - Blood money

29 Nov 2007

Hitman is the latest in a long line of videogames to make the jump from console to big screen. Despite the flops (think Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter) studios just don’t seem able to keep their hands off videogame properties, with the Resident…

Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed

(4 stars)29 Nov 2007

XBOX 360/PS3/PC (Ubisoft) How refreshing to enjoy an interesting story well told: thanks to an imaginative, if slightly bonkers, flashback device, Assassin’s Creed tiptoes nimbly through the obvious modern politics of a story set in the Holy Land…

The Orange Box

The Orange Box

(5 stars)29 Nov 2007

PC/XBOX 360 (Valve) ‘Oh Mr Valve, with zees expansions you are really spoiling us!’ The Orange Box is ridiculously good value, containing the genius of Half Life 2 and its episodic expansions, the mind-bending challenge of Portal and Team Fortress 2…

WWE Smackdown! Vs Raw 2008

WWE Smackdown! Vs Raw 2008

(3 stars)29 Nov 2007

XBOX 360/PS3/PS2 (THQ) You know the score by now: lots of grunting, grappling and men in lycra as yet another in the seemingly endless, but always popular, WWE wresting series hits the market. As you’d expect, on the next gen machines this looks…

Ghostbusters receive call to join new computer game

16 Nov 2007

The original cast of the hit movie Ghostbusters will lend their faces and voices to a new computer game due to be released next year. Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis have signed up for the project, with the latter two - who…

Festive Wii demand expected to outstrip supply

15 Nov 2007

Games company Nintendo has said it is doing ‘everything possible’ to ensure stocks of its Wii meets the clamour of shoppers keen to get their hands on the popular game before Christmas. Consumers however have been warned to expect disappointment as…

Crime & punishment - breaking the virtual rules

1 Nov 2007

These days, when we talk about crime in the cyber world we’re not referring to the joyriding depicted in Need for Speed or the multiple murders of Manhunt. These are crimes against computer controlled characters within games. This may sound…

Top Gear to be available through Gran Turismo 5

25 Oct 2007

Some 40 episodes of the popular motoring show Top Gear are to be available on a dedicated Gran Turismo TV channel. Games enthusiasts will be able to download the shows via the PlayStation 3’s online network, while the test track used by the BBC…

Game over? Halo 3 launch dampened by leaked conclusion

27 Sep 2007

The excitement caused by the global launch of Halo 3 could be dampened by the news that the game’s final scenes have already appeared on the web. Thousands of enthusiasts queued outside some 1,000 UK stores which opened late to be among the first to…

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