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LittleBigPlanet PS Vita review – PlayStation’s cuddliest scales down wonderfully

Emma Davies at 04:00pm September 12 2012

Since February, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the chance to get properly touchy-feely with PlayStation’s cutest mascot. But is sackboy the perfect fit for Vita, or is he coming apart at the seams without the deft touch of original developer Media Molecule? Put it this way: as soon as Stephen Fry’s velvety, dulcet tones welcome you back to the Imagisphere, this feels like a homecoming.

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London 2012 PS3 review – can the official tie-in bring home the gold?

Emma Davies at 10:40am July 3 2012

It’s been nigh on impossible this summer to avoid having your eyeballs assaulted by a Rorschach-esque blot that may or may not resemble Lisa Simpson in a compromising position. From cereal bars to disposable barbecues, products are hurdling over themselves to be crowned the ‘official’ whatever of the Olympics.

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Are games a part of mainstream culture yet? Ten developers answer

Emma Davies at 05:00am June 11 2012

We ask ten developers if games are a part of mainstream culture. And if not, what do they need to do to get there?

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What matters more: review scores or sales? Ten developers answer

Emma Davies at 01:00pm May 10 2012

10 top developers tell us whether its more important to get high review scores or rack up good sales figures

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The Help Blu-ray review

Emma Davies at 03:16pm March 15 2012

‘Slow-burning’ isn’t quite the word. The first hour or so of The Help is, in all honesty, rather dull. Skeeter (Emma Stone), an aspiring journalist, returns from university to Jackson, Mississippi. It’s the early ’60s, and she’s shocked at the way in which black servants are treated by her contemporaries. In a move informed, you suspect, by her career longings as much as her political ideology, she decides to write…

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Frobisher Says PS Vita review

Emma Davies at 12:25pm February 23 2012

I’ve met snooze buttons less addictive than the ‘Again! Again!’ that pops up at the end of a session with this free Vita app. Frobisher Says is, in essence, Warioware on acid, offering up more than 50 whimsically presented, gleefully nonsensical micro-games.

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Ridge Racer Unbounded preview

Emma Davies at 10:19am February 13 2012

The word ‘simple’ is rarely a compliment – just ask any browbeaten teacher who’s mistakenly used the word at a parents’ evening. But Bugbear is embracing the term for its arcade take on Ridge Racer, and in a world of ‘emergent gameplay scenarios’ and ‘delineated dynamic narrative oxidation’ it’s actually pretty refreshing.

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Just Dance 3 PS3 review

Emma Davies at 12:51pm January 24 2012

If Just Dance 3 was another girl on a nightclub dancefloor, I’d probably be a bit intimidated by her. I can practically feel her derision seeping from the TV as I awkwardly flail my limbs, Move controller in hand, in an attempt to emulate the steps shown on-screen. ‘Okay’ – and sometimes the occasional ‘good’, but practically never a ‘perfect’ – is all she offers me by way of encouragement.…

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The Sims 3 Pets

Emma Davies at 03:16pm October 23 2011

Enjoy guiding your virtual likeness through its day-to day tasks, but feel it’s missing some four-legged friends? Sigh no more: you can now give them a recreation of Fido or Fluffy.

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