Nintendo Fights Back Against Global Piracy
Nintendo of America have filed a lawsuit against the owner of HackYourConsole.com, a site which promotes and helps consumers hack their Nintendo devices and consoles to play illegally downloaded games. HackYourConsole.com offers services, for a fee, that include ways to hack and modify the Wii and Wii U to allow…
A Young Boy Has Saved Lives By Playing Mario Kart
Games can get a lot of abuse in this world so once in a while, it is nice to see some positive news about them. Gryffin (10) and his younger brother (4) were in a car with their 74 year old grandmother when she suddenly passed out. Gryffin jumped out…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles announced by Activision
Activision has announced a new Ninja Turtles game based on the kid-friendly Nickelodeon animated series, releasing later this year for Nintendo Wii, 3DS and Xbox 360. Simply titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the game is a side-scroller-beat'em up which boasts local drop-in and drop out co-op so you can play with…
The Smurfs 2 Launches With A Smurftastic Trailer
I may have to kill myself for saying Smurftastic. Ubisoft have announced that The Smurfs 2, the video game based on the Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s film, is available from today for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U. The Smurfs 2 video game is a combination…
Xbox 360 to overtake the Wii as UK’s Top Console
Xbox 360 will take a step ahead of the Nintendo Wii as the UK’s best-selling console according to GfK Chart-Track. This will make the Xbox 360 this generation’s highest selling home console on our little island. The Xbox 360 has sold 8.4 million consoles in the UK and in the…
Just Dance 2014 Announced At E3
With Pitbull and Christina Aquilera, Just Dance is returning this October on all platforms. More singing, more dancing, the same party action. Just Dance 2014 will be out, oddly, this year on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii as well as next-gen hardware. What do…
Just Dance 2014 Announced At E3
With Pitbull and Christina Aquilera, Just Dance is returning this October on all platforms. More singing, more dancing, the same party action. Just Dance 2014 will be out, oddly, this year on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii as well as next-gen hardware. What do…
Nintendo Close Multiple Online Wii Services
On June 28th Nintendo will be closing multiple online services currently available on the Wii. The closing services include The exchange of Wii messages on the Wii Message Board, the exchange of Mii characters on the Mii Channel and message/data exchange within some games. Support will also be ceased for the…
The Smurfs 2 Game Announced
With the release of The Smurfs 2 movie only months away, Ubisoft have announced that they are going to release a video game based on the film. The game will be an action-adventure platformer game to be released on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and WiiU along with some mini…
Young Justice is making its way to games for the first time
Popular TV series Young Justice, currently airing on Cartoon Network with a new series that began on 3rd March 2013, is finally getting a game based on the cartoon. Little Orbit has announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for Young Justice: Legacy, set to…
Wii Mini Hitting Shelves On March 22nd This Year
After nearly 100 million Wii consoles sold worldwide, the new look Wii Mini launches across UK on 22nd March. The latest addition to this family of home consoles offers great gameplay at great value, putting the focus squarely on games with over 1200 disc-based Wii titles to choose from. Wii…
Angry Birds Trilogy to hit Wii and WiiU this year
Angry Birds is one of those games that came out as a mobile app and everyone thought would be forgotten about in a few months. That was 4 years ago now and the small, time wasting app has grown into a huge franchise. Following the success of the Xbox360, PS3…
New research suggests the Wii Fit could help children with movement difficulties
With games becoming a main form of entertainment, it's no surprise that researchers are looking into their other uses. Science has already proven that computer games can help improve long term memory as well as hand eye co-ordination, and a new study suggests that Wii Fit can actually help aid…
VGU’s Best Nintendo Games of 2012
2012 has been a slow year for the Nintendo Consoles and only really picked up when the Wii U was released. However, there have been some cracking games for the Nintendo devices and these are VGU’s best ones! One of the Wii U’s unique original titles and it is…
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two 2Player Review
Welcome to the first 2Player review! Let me give you a rundown of how this will work, the review will be split up in to two sections, the Player 1 experience and the Player 2 experience. Player 1 will be looking at the game from single player view and Player…
Skylanders: Spryo’s Adventure Wins a BAFTA Award for “Best Video Game”
Activision can be proud of the Skylanders franchise; Skylanders Spyro's Adventure was awarded the Best Video Game category award at the British Academy Children's Awards (BAFTA), earning them a place at the front of innovating gaming for children. Peter Hepworth, UK Managing Director of Activision Blizzard, said "we are absolutely delighted to…
LEGO Lord Of The Rings Disc Mix-Up
It’s been released that some copies of LEGO Lord of the Rings contain a disc labelled ‘demo disc’ instead of the traditional disc. Certain retailers have recalled the Xbox 360 version, which so far appears to be the only version affected by the mix-up. A Warner Bros spokesperson released a…