Video Game News and Reviews

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the globally loved Pac-Man, creators Namco Bandai have teamed up Meiji, a Japan based food company, to release some special edition Pac-Man styled packaging for their products. Meiji will be releasing the special packaging on their lines of coffee drinks, fruit drinks and their pudding lines. Buying one of these special packs will not only give you an enjoyable graphic to look at, but you also get a special item. With each product, you’ll get a code which allow Japanese customers to download special images for their mobile phones. If you live in Japan then you can look forward to these special edition packaging appearing on the shelves next month.

Halo: Reach has been out for just under 1 week now and in that short time, some crazy statistics have been released by Bungie in their first weekly update. As of last Friday, over8 million daily challenges have been completed and over 78 billion credits have been earned. These two statistics are pretty impressive, however, my personal favourites are that over 950 years have been spent in matchmaking, and over an absolutely massive 1360 years have been spent playing the campaign. You’ll notice that these statistics were as of Friday 17th, so you can expect these to have rose drastically over the weekend, being the first weekend after release. In Bungie’s first weekly update they also announced that they will…

2K Games, makers of American crime game Mafia II, have been keeping themselves very busy recently. First the release of Mafia II which quickly rose to the top of the charts and stayed there for a good 3 weeks atleast. Then just a week after release, they released their first DLC pack, Jimmy’s Vendetta. The first DLC pack followed a totally new character, Jimmy, who works as the Mafia’s clean-up man. You take on the role as Jimmy and work through over 30 new missions ranging from high speed car chases to bloody assassinations. Unfortunately for 2K Games, Jimmy’s Vendetta didn’t really prove such as big a hit as the game itself. However, 2K are springing back with the announcement…

When it comes to installing a game to your Xbox 360 hard drive, it’s always a bit hit and miss as to whether it will actually speed up the game, or just slow it down. For example, many gamers found that installing Halo 3 to their consoles actually slowed the load times down. So with the release of Halo: Reach, is it safe to install or not? Well, Examiner.com have conducted some tests and they’ve found that installing the game onto your hard drive will save you valuable seconds when it comes to load times, giving you more time to shoot and less time staring at a dark screen. The tests found that when loading a standard mission on an…

For a third week in a row, Take-Two have proved that crime really does pay with Mafia II topping the UK software charts for a third week. Despite having a drop in sales of 58%, the American based crime game managed to hold off against Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 which was released the week before. In terms of other notable ranking, as I just said, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 managed to get up to number 2, the biggest jump of the week of 8 places after it’s first week of release. It managed to fly just over Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, knocking it down to third place for this week, don’t expect that one to fight back up….