Review Round-Up: Yakuza Greed, Street Fighter Max [List]

With the use of some red ink and some blue ink, we reviewed some video games this week. Links to the results are below. How’d we do? More

Street Fighter IV iPhone Review: A Party For One [Review]

Street Fighter IV was an exuberant return to the days of classic arcade fighters. It was a game designed specifically to reel back in aging gamers who once dropped pounds of quarters on virtual tournament in arcades around the world. More

Review: Download Games Roundup

Bit.Trip Void, Shoot 1Up, Alien Zombie Death and Mega Man 10. Editor’s note: As you may have noticed, internet gaming is inconveniently big and untidy, with new digital distribution channels springing up all the time. Where it was once just Steam and Xbox Live Arcade, we now have to worry about the App Store, PSN, WiiWare, Xbox Indie Games channel, DSiWare… These days, all the cool kids have their own digital distribution racket. Good content is harder to find, and from the perspective of a website like Eurogamer, it’s now more resource-intensive to cover a smaller cross-section of games as a result. Whoops! That’s no excuse for not doing it, of course, so we’ve decided to embrace the fact it’s not practical to write big individual reviews of absolutely everything, and that it’s also not useful to you if we wait around for ages and then round up a bunch of old games. To this end we’re going to experiment with multiformat digital download roundups, and former Eurogamer.net editor and downloadophile Kristan Reed is going to write them. To kick off, er, here’s a roundup of a bunch of old stuff. Look out for more soon. One of the more impressively polished efforts to hit the Xbox Live Indie scene, Shoot 1UP is an enjoyable twist on the classic top-down shmup for a mere 80 Microsoft Points, which is less money than you probably spend on a can of Coke (unless you’re like Tom and drink 14 a day). Read more…

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A More Nutritious Way To Review God Of War III [Screengrab]

A humorous Photoshop, or a look at how games would be labeled if the government handled ratings? As seen on Joystick Division . More

Max & The Magic Marker Micro-Review: What If The DS Was My TV? [Review]

Next week, Nintendo will release the largest Nintendo DS yet seen in America, the pocket-busting DSi XL. But I have played a DS game that no DS can display — on my TV with a giant, virtual stylus. More

Max & The Magic Marker Micro-Review: What If The DS Was My TV? [Review]

Next week, Nintendo will release the largest Nintendo DS yet seen in America, the pocket-busting DSi XL. But I have played a DS game that no DS can display — on my TV with a giant, virtual stylus. More

Yakuza 3 Review: A Foreign Film Festival [Review]

It’s funny, for all the Japanese games you and I have ever played—and they number in the hundreds, if not thousands—few of them are Japanese in the way that Yakuza 3 is. More

Yakuza 3 Review: A Foreign Film Festival [Review]

It’s funny, for all the Japanese games you and I have ever played—and they number in the hundreds, if not thousands—few of them are Japanese in the way that Yakuza 3 is. More

Review: Scrap Metal

Rust stop. If you were to list the game concepts that should be automatically awesome, going by their base ingredients, then cars with guns would have to come somewhere near the top. People like driving. People like shooting. Squish them together and, at the very least, you should have a game that ticks the box marked “Wheeee! Fun!” With that immutable universal law in mind, it’s unclear how Xbox Live Arcade game Scrap Metal has ended up as such a drab and frustrating little misfire. It’s produced by Slick Entertainment, which showed an innate understanding of pitch-perfect sensory feedback with its XBLA version of N+, yet almost every element feels compromised and clumsy. It’s a game that you want to enjoy, but dozens of constant irritations scratch away at you and prevent it from realising its potential. Scrap Metal is a combat-oriented top-down racer; separate out its DNA and you’d find donated genes from R.C. Pro Am, Super Sprint and Micro Machines, but the end result doesn’t even come close to their moreish genius. Balance and control, two elements key to this sort of racer, are sorely lacking and all the clichéd cartoon characters and chugga-chugga rock music can’t compensate for the misshapen organs in the belly of this beast. Read more…

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Greed Corp Micro-Review: Is Greed Good? [Review]

Running a corporation is hard. It’s even harder when your business is mining, and there’s less and less land to mine. Competition heats up. Time to bust out the cannons. Time to play Greed Corp. More

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