Lights, Camera, Action!
The Shoot is that simplest of creatures: the arcade lightgun game. If you’ve played any on-rails shooter in the past 20 years you’ll think you know what to expect, but The Shoot makes enough subtle additions to be worth a look even for jaded shooter fans.
Practise your elbows and headbutts now
The Fight: Lights Out just landed in Europe with a North American release on Tuesday, but if you want to prepare yourself for the upcoming bout you might want to check out this video from Sony's official PlayStation blog.
Best displayed with a cheesy video
Video Kinect isn't just for linking two faraway Kinect-owning Xbox 360 players: it can also be used to video chat with computer users of Windows Live Messenger.
Yesterday I helped a monk earn some Nectar points and then saw a DeLorean. I doubt today can top that but fingers crossed.
See where the money goes
You'd expect Kinect to be housing some serious technology, perhaps even an invisible wizard, and you'd be right (maybe not about the wizard), as website iFixit has torn a sensor to pieces for your study and curiosity.
Sensationalism balloon: deflating
We intentionally avoiding joining in the storm-in-a-teacup started by Gamespot's suggestion that Kinect struggled with dark-skinned users, but now the rumour has been disproved by Consumer Reports, the site that overcame a similar rumour about racist HP laptops last year.
Hoping to redress the imbalance
You need only look at our PlayStation Move games list to see that the lion's share of support for the controller is coming from Sony itself, with no fewer than 26 games either released or officially announced. Sony's line-up accounts for nearly half of the currently-known Move titles, but that's not always going to be the case, says Sony.
It'll have to go some way to top Kinect's New York launch party, but the UK's official celebration of all things Kinect kicks off on Tuesday night at Game's flagship Oxford Street store.
Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Collection is on the way to the West, and here's the box art for the collection when it lands on North American shelves on December 12th.
I love my PSP but never have time to play on it these days. Can anyone recommend an awesome game that might get me to dust it off?
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