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Weekly UK Games Chart

Ok, here’s the regular look at whats happening in the UK gaming charts courtesy of Chart-Track. (Read on …)

Gold Rush!

Gold Rush is now available on Team Fortress 2 and as well as this whole new gameplay mode Steam are introducing the new achievements for the Medic class and unlockable weapons too, talk about value for money.

Those of you who don’t already own TF2 can also get into the action with a special “Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend”, a world wide free trial of the game starting from Friday at noon PDT - Pacific Daylight Time (7 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time or 19:00 GMT) , you can beat the rush(!) by downloading the files now.

To start pre-loading everything you need to play on Friday and learn more about Team Fortress 2, please visit www.steamgames.com/goldrush, Also to view the fully list of updates go here

Wii and DS to hook up in Ghostbusters

According to reports from Videogaming 247, the Wii incarnation of the new Ghostbusters game being developed by Red Fly will enable you to link up and use your Nintendo DS as a Ghostbuster style PKE meter to help you detect and measure Psycho-Kinetic Energy emitted by ghosts.

Whilist the idea of connecting hand-held systems with consoles isn’t a new idea in itself, it is one of the first to link up the DS with the Wii and might well even give the title a different angle to its ‘big brother’ version coming to the 360 (which is being developed by Terminal Reality). Who knows, it might also give you a reason to play this game on the Wii…

Personally I like the idea of using the DS with the Wii in this way however I can’t see exactly how it will work when both hands are already pre-occupied with the Wii-mote and nunchuck!

Brain Training Good For Your Brain

There’s been lots of talk about whether games like “Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?” or “Big Brain Academy” are actually beneficial to your brain’s health.

Scientists over at the University of Michigan suggest that Brain-training efforts designed to improve working memory can also boost scores in general problem-solving ability and improve fluid intelligence.

Although the performance of untrained controls improved slightly, the trained subjects showed a significant performance improvement, which increased with time spent training.

While this document doesn’t explicitly endorse any products, it’s good to know that all that brain training time has not been spent in vain.

Source physorg

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

What would you say if I said there will soon be a method of analysing your Burnout Paradise save file (PS3) to tell you where to find all the incomplete discoverables?

What would you say if it was Criterion that were the people responsible for this feature? Would you be pleased or disappointed? Personally I’m a bit miffed as to why Criterion would want to do this, I realise any developer wants their game to be experienced to the fullest but is this a step too far?

Or is it just me? am I not up with the times? What ever happened to the satisfaction of completing a game without the help of guides? This will only available for the PS3, but for those of you looking for help until this feature is fully operational or own an Xbox, you can wonder over to this interactive map of Paradise city (also endorsed by Criterion).

Jackie Chan Loves The Gaming?

It seems that Jackie Chan’s latest movie The forbidden Kingdom with Jet Li is overflowing with gaming references although one, according to siliconera’s spencer, is better than all the rest for giving some screen time to Sega’s now defunct Dreamcast.

after Jason wakes up from his dream, you can see a Dreamcast on the left hand corner of the screen underneath his TV.

This is not the first time one of Jackie’s movies have been a platform for gaming references, anyone who has seen City Hunter will surely remember the scene where Jackie and fellow cast members ape Street Fighter II

Source Kotaku

A Sign Of The (Arcade) Times

Arcade gaming has been around for about thirty seven years (probably why the average age of a gamer is 33 and not 12 some people would have you believe.) and if you’ve ever wanted to take a closer look at your arcade heritage, or even see what was happening in arcades when your were born, well now you can.

This interactive arcade time line was started by Kevin Williams, author of the The Stinger Report and was even contributed on by our friends over at Arcade Heroes. It starts a long, long time ago in November 1971 with Computer Space by Nutting Associates and currently ends with Street Fighter IV in June 2008.

A quick search tells me there is no such time line for Console gaming, something that will need to be rectified!

Check it out here

Source Acrade Heroes

echochrome Fact Sheet

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA)
Studio: SCE Japan Studio
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) via PLAYSTATION Network and PSP (PlayStation Portable)
Genre: Puzzle Game
Rating: “E” for Everbody

(Read on …)

If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

Rockstar has officially responded to the recent news that GTV 4 has already been leaked onto the internet for download and the response is surprisingly personal.

It’s difficult. It’s hard to think that so many are willing to download the games and are unwilling to support us with all the efforts we put into it.

It’s refresing to have a more human repsonse to the piracy issue, Rockstar truly believe in their product and rightly so. In fact they can’t understand why anyone would want anything other than the geniune article and by stealing this game you are not recognising Rockstar’s comitment and effort to producing such a quality title.

Source What If Gaming

Split Reason

Following on from my post eariler this morning i thought id take a good look at the website that has the “Mighty Kong” tee on it and all i can say is “Jack Pot!”

Over at Split Reason.com there is a pile of cool and retro tee’s to look at and buy, there may even be too many? Just a quick look through the site and i can say that i spent about £200 in my head on tee’s.

Below are some of my favorite tee’s from the site. (Read on …)

Mighty Kong

As talked about in previous posts I love Tee’s and I’m always on the lookout for the next one and I think I’ve found it! Simply titled “MIGHTY KONG” it shows the classic scene from King Kong on top of the Empire State building but instead of biplanes there are a load of Nintendo characters trying to stop him!

This is a “must have” in my opinion and a steal for only $19.95!

Impressions: Ironman

As is standard with all blockbuster films these days, it’s not complete without an accompanying video game tie-in.

Iron Man is this year’s first movie video game to hit the shelves, with it’s release in just five days time I thought I would take a look at the XBOX 360 to see if it’s any good (after all that’s what it’s for).

(Read on …)

Atari Games That Time Forgot

This one is probably best suited to those of us who played the Atari 2600, but it’s still funny for anyone who hasn’t.

Over at Mightygodking you will find quite a few Atari box art scans for genuine games with a slight twist, the titles and descriptions have been changed to reflect the poorly concieved artwork.

Source OhGizmo!

Pinball Survivor

This is something that I think we all would say is it never crossed there minds, “The last Pinball manufacture!” I know that in this time and age, we don’t really think about pinball as a gaming medium but back in 1977 this was the cutting edge tech of the gaming industry with over 27,000 pinball machines being made each year, witch is a lot of machines even in the time of the PS3 or 360. (Read on …)

In case of…

Just a quick post about what to do In case of Headcrab Infestation?

Simple use Crowbar! This is a very simple but cool idea, all i hope is that we never have to use the Crowbar!

Culture Coming To Burnout!

These Burnout updates are coming thick and fast (or should that be fast and furious..).

Today Criterion have announced the addition of classical music to the track line up, so as well as soon being able to listening to your own tunes you can chill out to the soothing sounds of Air -Suite No. 3 In D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach. Classical music won’t be included until the Cagney update in around 35 days.

If you can’t wait that long, here’s a taster. (Read on …)

“I am invincible!”

So imagine if you had the power of the Invincibility star! Well the “Super Mario Singing Glow Star” is the nearest you are ever going to get to this unless by a random accident sucks you into Nintendo World just like Kevin!

So what does it do? Well the Star flashes on and off and plays the invincibility song just like the Super Mario Brothers game and that’s about it really, but hay it sure looks cool!

Yours for $17.99 available from ThinkGeek, via Geek Alerts.com

Guitar Hero Tie

Dont have enought Rock in your life? Feel like you never have enough time with Guitar Hero? Well sir i think this is just the thing for you! The Guitar Hero Tie can be yours for a small sum of $29.95 “The only tie you’ll need when you need to party but also keep it formal“

Burnout Wallpaper

Burnout developers Criterion have produced this sweet wallpaper as part of their motorcycles push in Paradise, get the full size here, along with other Burnout related media.

Money, money, money

All in all, it’s a good day to be Nintendo. Despite all the doom and gloom in the world economy, the games giant has today reported that there annual operating profit has more than doubled this financial year - smashing many of their own records.

Clearly you don’t need to be a brain surgeon to know that demand for the Wii, the DS and its games have been huge and this has clearly contributed to the huge surge in profits. In the last year, Nintendo has reported selling 18.61 million Wii consoles and 30.31million Nintendo DS’s helping Nintendo on its way to record profits.

All in all, Nintendo’s operating profit for the last financial year stood at £2.4billion pounds compared to a ‘pitiful’ £1.1billion in the previous year.

If that wasn’t pleasing enough, the future also looks rosey. Nintendo are predicting another strong year in 2008/09 but did conceed that growth would slow.

Well done Nintendo

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