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Despite approaching the tipping point for instrument based rhythm games, Lego Rock Band feels surprisingly original. Find out why with our review.

Should Video Games and Board Games combine? Read our review of the Wii’s Hasbro Family Game Night Vol.2

You’re speeding through the famous tunnel overlooking the Monaco Waterfront at two hundred miles per hour. Ahead of you, Jenson Button, so far he’s been top dog, receiving all the plaudits and praise, little does he know that you’ve been gaining precious second upon second and at the next chicane you’ll strike.
He makes a mess [...]

This game has a hug button. If that isn’t enough we probably won’t get along. Click here to read our A Boy and His Blob Review

Four years ago, a young publisher by the name of Harmonix strived to push rhythm gaming to new heights. FreeStyleGames are now striving to take the rhythm genre to the next level, do they succeed?

When you think of Mario and Sonic you think of old times, blocky graphics and incredibly good advertising slogans like “Genesis does what Nintendon’t”. In all honesty after all the nostalgia has died down, the one thing you don’t think of are the Olympic Games.
Yet that’s what we saw two years ago in preparation for [...]

The highly protected Beatles catalogue has finally been converted into video game form. Do the Harmonix team do the music justice in The Beatles Rock Band?

Let’s face it, the Wii is hardly renowned for it’s quality first person shooters. Red Steel, Call of Duty and Medal of Honour have all submitted valiant attempts but have all fallen way too short. So it was with some trepidation that I started playing The Conduit, Sega’s attempt at a hardcore orientated shooter on [...]

So Wimbeldon may be over now, at least until next year, but the real main event of the tennis season has just arrived in the form of Virtua Tennis 2009. I’ll admit I am somewhat a fan of the Virtua Tennis series and was hoping for more of the same, a seriously solid tennis game [...]

The original Boom Blox on paper didn’t make sense but was easily the best game on Wii last year. How does the follow up fare?