The latest addition to the Legend of Zelda series, Spirit Tracks, is almost a month away and though Nintendo had kept most of the game’s secrets under wraps since the playable demo at E3, the news has been coming thick and fast over the last couple of days.
A new trailer last week revealed a whole host of secrets including the origins of the mysterious Phantoms that would help Link on his quest, why our usually green-garbed hero is sporting that natty little train driver’s outfit and, most importantly, the villain …

It’s as traditional as buckets full of sweets, hastily-put-together costumes and badly carved pumpkins: another Halloween, another entry into the Saw franchise.
Though it took the title of the most successful horror franchise with its fifth entry last year, there’s no denying that fans were left disappointed by a generally sloppy production. The ingenuity of the traps had disappeared, John Kramer had died two movies back and taken most of the answers to the franchise’s questions with him and the normally brilliant Julie Benz was handed a script which had been …

To say that Mario is pretty versatile for a plumber would be an understatement. Over his two decades of stomping Goombas, ripping Koopas from their shells and bitch-slapping Bowser, the moustachioed maestro has found time for karting, tennis, golf and football (that’s proper football where you use your feet to connect with the ball 90 per cent of the time, my American friends).
But being a hero is what he does best, and alongside consistently impressive platformers Mario has a catalogue of equally entertaining RPGs. After the Square-developed Super Mario RPG …

Only a few days ago I addressed the success which Nintendo had been having with their dual-screened handheld in recent years. The system has attracted a lot of people to the gaming who wouldn’t have touched it with a twelve-foot pole several years ago, never mind a three inch stylus.
Well, the times they are a-changing, and the DS has sold over 100 million units in it’s short life, with three different forms. Now, there’s a new one which goes against the previous two reinventions where everything was physically scaled back …

When Michael Jackson died, as with all pop stars of his kind, musical experts and personalities who had been starved of attention for a while (yes, Uri, I mean you) were rolling out the hyperbolic tributes to the King of Pop. He was a born entertainer. He touched millions. He left a legacy that would last generations.
I had a problem with all of these tributes. It’s not that they weren’t true. The problem I had was that I’d been using the past tense to describe Michael Jackson, the artist, for …