All this week we’re taking a look back at Nintendo and Camelot’s Mario Tennis series in honour of the release of Mario Tennis Open on the 3DS. Remember the transfer pak peripheral, that allowed players to share data between certain Nintendo 64 and Game Boy games? It turns out that the dual Mario Tennis games from [...]

All this week we’re taking a look back at Nintendo and Camelot’s Mario Tennis series in honour of the release of Mario Tennis Open on the 3DS.

Today, myself and my brother Andrew revisit Mazza’s unseeded debut on the Nintendo 64, 2000′s Mario Tennis.

I can’t think of a genre more deceptively fun than the management sim. Okay, maybe ‘fun’ isn’t the right word. As dull as they might sound on paper, the likes of Theme Park and Championship Manager can be as addictive as the best RPGs. Based around strategy and grounded in real business practices, the genre continues [...]

Here at Citizen Game, we’re mighty fond of a bargain. But how do you know if a cheap or even free game is worth your valuable time? After all, you could be out walrus wrestling, or reading poetry to molluscs, or whatever it is important people do these days now that we no longer have an economy. [...]

I’ve known for some time that I have horrible addictive tendencies. Sadly it’s only recently become apparent how dependant on an always on, always connected, 100Mbit/s fibre optic connection I actually am. Being abruptly disconnected from the digital world this past bank holiday weekend had some profound effects on me. I’d never for one moment considered [...]

Here at Citizen Game, we’re mighty fond of a  bargain. But how do you know if a cheap or even free game is worth your valuable time? After all, you could be out walrus wrestling, or reading poetry to molluscs, or whatever it is important people do these days now that we no longer have an economy. Luckily, our [...]

Football manager handheld has been available on iPad and iPhone’s for some time now and now finally the world’s most popular sports management game finally arrives on the world’s most popular mobile platform. Football Manager Handheld 2012 might be a cut-down version of the desktop version but it most certainly doesn’t feel like a lesser [...]

Blizzard has posted on its official blog that the previously closed beta test for Diablo 3 is opening up to all you hungry hungry games hippos with a free and completely open “stress test” weekend. As of today, Friday the 20th, anyone can log in, create their account and begin downloading the beta client. The full [...]

Publisher Bethesda has confirmed that upcoming alien bounty hunter shooter/open world adventure Prey 2 is still in development, although it will not be releasing this year as planned. A short, if slightly mysterious statement blamed the delay on unspecified problems in development. “Development of Prey 2 has not been cancelled but the game will not be [...]

Sometimes, it’s the sound that does it. A snatch of half-recalled chorus can suddenly whisk you back to a lazy summer afternoon lounging in the park, the murmur of conversations overheard and the shouts of foot-to-ball enthusiasts wafting through the air. Legend of Grimrock, the new PC dungeon crawler from Finnish indie developers Almost Human, achieved [...]

This marks the first time that we induct a whole soundtrack into the Musical Showcase vault. This score is so good that it would be impossible to elevate just one of its track above all others. Let’s remember the music of Sega’s side-scrolling Mega Drive brawler, Streets of Rage 2. Series composer Yuzo Koshiro may not [...]

Here at Citizen Game Towers, we’re getting pretty excited about the upcoming MMO that promises to do things a little differently — Guild Wars 2. I spoke to Colin Johanson, lead content designer, and Theo Nguyen, game designer, from developer ArenaNet about narrative, PvP and what drove them to approach the online RPG from a different [...]

Evening, minions. Been looking forward to the ArenaNet’s upcoming attempt to upset the MMO applecart, otherwise known as Guild Wars 2? If the answer to that question was anything other than a resounding chorus in the affirmative, you’re all going to have to stay after class to read my list of reasons why you should be [...]