Way, way back in the mists of gaming history stood a game like no other. One that took tiny troops, all with their own names and ranks, and gave them to the gamer to win a war, one map at a time. Â
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Handhelds
Review: Skylanders Trap Team
Trap Team is the fourth in Activision’s money spinning toy and game franchise, but it’s the first to feature the bad guys as playable characters. Â Is this enough to warrant another portal purchase?
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Wacky Racers
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Nintendo don’t do things by the book. Â If you don’t believe me then check out Tomodachi Life, their new ‘life simulator’.
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Many people say that the PS Vita has no ‘triple A’ games. What they really mean is that it has no big budget, huge explosion, star name, in-your-face games. Tearaway is not one of these, but it’s certainly a Triple A game in its own sense.
Read MoreReview: Amazing Spider-man Ps Vita
Amazing Spider-man. Amazing, perhaps, in the fact that it’s taken this long to get the PS Vita version out there. Amazing, also, that pretty much everything in the PS3 version is right here, including open world web swinging and big boss battles with huge enemies. Like the console version, Spider-man on Vita has the full story, set just after the movie takes place (and therefore containing some pretty major spoilers). It plays out through a series of corridor roaming, puzzle and stealth sections and open world GTA style mini-missions, interspersed…
Read MoreReview: Rayman Legends
Rayman’s return to gaming took an unusual path through a land of Rabbids before finally making his way back to his traditional platform genre with the rather excellent Rayman Origins.  Legends continues Origin’s successful structure with a few additions of its own, but can it recapture the magic?
Read MoreReview: Animal Crossing New Leaf
Is Animal Crossing a game? There’s a lot to be said for Nintendo’s loveable franchise, but it still doesn’t seem to fit the typical definition of a video game.
Read MoreReview: Fire Emblem Awakening
I’ve cared about game characters in the past, no, really I have.  But not in the same way as the latest Fire Emblem made me care about them.  Because as much as Fire Emblem Awakening is a game about war and strategy, it’s also about relationships, friends and family.
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