All Posts by: Barry Hodgson

Fable 2 Review

By Barry Hodgson, October 22, 2008 1 Reviews, XBOX 360

It’s simply Fable-ous!… Read More…

Star Wars Force Unleashed Review

By Barry Hodgson, October 14, 2008 1 PS3, Reviews, XBOX 360

Star Wars Wonderful Star Wars! Or is it?… Read More…

TNA iMPACT! Review

By Barry Hodgson, October 14, 2008 0 PS3, Reviews, XBOX 360

We like watching Men in Spandex – do you? We Review TNA iMPACT.… Read More…

Review: Star Wars The Force Unleashed

By Barry Hodgson, October 14, 2008 0

It’s been a while since there was a good Star Wars action game. The last good one in our humble opinion was Jedi Academy, and that was a good few years ago now and since then we’ve had a couple of god awful film tie ins and not a lot else, oh and the awesome Lego Star Wars.

The Force Unleashed was billed as allowing you full and “unprecedented” control of the dark side of the force, however this is unfortunately not the case.

The game starts off brilliantly, with you taking control (of a very very slow) Darth Vader. … Read More…

Review: TNA: iMPACT!

By Barry Hodgson, October 14, 2008 0

TNA is the alternative to the WWE – with home grown talent (well, nicked from Ring of Honor anyway) like Former TNA Heavyweight Champ Samoa Joe, AJ Styles and Abyss along with more established ex WWE/WCW/ECW guys like current Champ Sting, Rhyno, Kurt Angle and Christian.

This is the first TNA game and the first time Midway have had a proper stab at a console Wrestling game and for the most part its hit and miss.

The actual wrestling is quite good and fast paced – mad makes a good change from the now slow paced Smackdown series. Matches flow … Read More…

Call of Duty: World at War 360 Beta live

By Barry Hodgson, October 13, 2008 1 PC, XBOX 360

Activision have sent word that the Call of Duty: World at War Beta has now gone live. If you’ve got a key you can go ahead and start the 890MB download from Live now.

PC Owners, you have to wait a bit longer unfortunately.… Read More…

New PS3, PSP Updates detailed

By Barry Hodgson, October 13, 2008 1 PS3, PSP

Sony has posted details of the next PSP Firmware updates on their US Blog:

The PS3 update will feature Screenshot Grabbing (in supported games) as well as a new way to skip through Videos.

The PSP will get direct Access to the PSN Store from the XMB.

We last heard the PSP V5.0 Firmware is due to go live on Wednesday, but we’ve no idea when the PS3 firmware will go live.

The Main features of both are:

Let’s start with the v5.00 update for PSP. In this version, you’ll notice the addition of the PlayStation Network icon on

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Nintendo October Conference roundup

By Barry Hodgson, October 2, 2008 0 Nintendo 3DS/DS, Nintendo Wii

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At Nintendos October conference in japan, they made a couple of announcements.First is the rumoured new DS called the DSi, it has a SD slot, no GBA slot, downloadable games (bought with the newly renamed Nintendo points) and apparently both screens are touch screens but we havent confirmed this yet, but we expect to get confirmation at the american conference later today.

Also announced were the following games:

Sin and Punishment 2 (Wii)
New Tales of…..(Wii)
Punch Out!! (Wii)
Another Code (Wii)
Mario & Luigi 3 (DS)

There was loads more, and we’ll bring you more later today.

Live Arcade Review: Bionic Commando Rearmed

By Barry Hodgson, September 29, 2008 1 PS3, Reviews, XBOX 360

Another Better late than never Review, this time Bionic Commando Rearmed.

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Live Arcade Review: Braid

By Barry Hodgson, September 29, 2008 1 Reviews, XBOX 360

A Better Late than Never Review of Braid!

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