Shared Dreams: Super Punch-Out!!

Never as fondly remembered as its NES predecessor, the SNES version of Super Punch-Out!! managed to achieve a mythical status in my childhood. Letʼs be clear – I wasnʼt very good at the game and like hell was I going to sit through the attract screen tutorial that appeared whenever you idled on the main menu. As a lad of...

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New Super Mario Bros Wii

This game comes on the foot of a miserably-quiet year from Nintendo. Very little to shout about on the Wii that isn’t a remake or rehash means the console is facing up to a worse-then-ever Christmas. It also comes after Super Mario Galaxy, which used the Wiimote to fairly good effect to bring Mario to the “next...

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A boy and his blob review

Very rarely do we review Wii games here. Not because the Wii is a bad console, but because the Wii is a terrible platform for games right now – consistently being beaten down by what feels like its bigger brothers: the 360 and PS3. But once in a while a title that isn’t featuring Mario or Link arrives that can really...

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R2D2 console hack

Hacknmod posted a novel article about a cool R2D2 replica model hacked to bits to house a few games consoles. In the head is a projector too! See if you can guess what 8 consoles are housed within from the image (see the controllers). I can get them all, but then again, I don’t run a games website for nothin’, yo. (this...

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