Life-simulation meets farming simulator – but is it as grand as the title suggests?
If you've visited the site recently, you'll likely have seen our review of the brilliant Rune Factory 3, and heard ...
Farming, monsters and romance all come together in one game
Around this time last year, I was writing a review for Harvest Moon: Animal Parade on the Wii – which, somewhat surprisingly...
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, my dear Luke.
If Professor Layton was more into giving advice on proverbs than solving mind-bending, logic based puzzles, he'd likely have told his young apprentice Luke that "Imitation is the most sincere form of ...
A dog, a cat, and a robot walk into a bar...
If you read our initial preview of Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, you'll probably have been left with the impression that it's kind...
Stop me if you've heard this one before
With summer finally upon us, and our resident middle-aged player, Sue, finally finishing her last point and click adventure, she came to us with a question, with the journey for her upcoming holiday o...
It's about slime I got round to reviewing this...
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie is the third game in the Zenithia series – and if that means anything to you,...
Hidden object, point and clicking on the DS
If you're a fan of point and click, or puzzle games, the name Natalie Brooks may be familiar to you. A huge franchise on the PC, Natalie Brooks: Treasure of the Lost Kingdom marks the hapless teenager...
Evolve with me
There’s nothing more frustrating than when a company don’t listen to you. It’s often been said that the best way to learn is by making mistakes, but so many companies simply don’t, instead choosing to...
Who said Gardner's World never taught us anything?
I can't be the only one who has their Facebook news feed constantly invaded by spam generating tat (unlike our brilliant Facebook page...
I (still) wanna be the very best, like no-one ever was
Games these days like giving you awkward choices to make. Morality testing role playing games like Fable, Mass Effect and Dragon Age often leave you trying to work out whether someone should live...
Cute celestial puppy shines on the DS
Originally released on the Playstation 2 in it's dying years, Okami went largely ignored, before being remade for the Wii (which fared a bit better). It seems fitting then, that the sequel, Okamiden, ...
Mini Mario, Mega Trouble
A wise man once said, if you want something doing, you ought to do it yourself. That's a sentiment Mario really ought to have listened to, as he'd probably have had better results than in this latest ...
Match me if you can.
For those who've never heard of Jewel Link - don't worry, as there's actually a pretty good reason why the name isn't that familiar. Jewel Link Chronicles: Legend of Athena is actually the third game ...
Farming fun in the sun on the DS
Until recently, I'd never played a Harvest Moon game before – I'd been interested in them, but had never really tried one until I got the new Wii game, Harvest Moon: Animal Parade to review. And ...
Back to school.
The latest in a line of Junior Brain Trainer games from Avanquest, we popped Junior Brain Trainer: Maths Edition into our DS with high hopes. After a...
PopCap's take on Boggle - easy as A-B-C
It's becoming something of a trend for DS games to have shrunken, leaner versions of themselves appear on the DSi store. Appearing with a minimum of features, at a smaller price, the games are often a...
Everyone's favourite feline returns
It's always awkward buying presents for some people. God only knows I must be one of the most awkward, with the amount of make-up sets I find myself buried under now. But we've all been there before, ...
If survival's this tricky, no wonder Dodos are extinct!"
If anything, the main problem with DoDoGo Challenge is that it's almost too clever for its own good. As a puzzle game that tasks you with helping a number of Dodo eggs through a perilous, trap filled ...
Something to light up the dreary winter.
OK, so we lied a little bit in the strap - at the time of writing, the winter's actually looking anything but dreary, with the sun having finally come out, making the fourteen feet of snow we're under...
Can you guess what it is yet?
Pictionary's one of those games we've been waiting for for a while. Random games conversions of board games tend to go down a storm at Everybody Plays, and Pictionary, being one of our favourite board...