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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m getting back into Skyrim for the first time in a month. Perhaps this will be immediately indicative of the lesser captivation it has had on me compared to its enrapturing predecessor, Oblivion: from release, there was rarely a week in which the game didn’t amass hours of my time. Hopefully, once re-invested into Skyrim, there [...]

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 [...]

Warning: major spoilers within. Your choices have consequences in the Mass Effect trilogy. Ignore what the haters of Mass Effect 3′s ending are saying; it’s during the game itself where all your decisions pay off, be they through positive or negative outcomes. And boy, are there some intense negative ones. Unless you were playing a renegade [...]