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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s no understatement to say that there’s a lot going on in Mass Effect 3. Story-wise the galaxy is on the brink of destruction. The fabled machine race known as the Reapers are laying waste to all organic life in the Milky Way. Commander Shepard is tasked with the oh-so-simple goal of uniting every major race [...]

On the mic – Joseph Barron, Nick Lynch and Mark Craven Runtime – 00:42:48 Content – Worried about Mass Effect 3 talk and spoilers? Fear not! This is a ME3 free zone. Joseph talks to Nick and Mark about drawing genitalia in Draw Something, Nick and Joe clash on their SSX viewpoint, and Mark gets somewhat misty eyed about Bullfrog. What Games – Draw Something, Theme Park, [...]