DLC Review: Borderlands: The Zombie Island Of Dr. Ned

Game: Borderlands: The Zombie Island Of Dr. Ned Platorm: XBox 360 Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2K Games For anyone out there that loved Borderlands as much as I did you can now download the first of a series of expansions for 800 Microsoft points off of Xbox Live, which is about £6.80 in real money. [...]

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Mon, November 30 2009 » PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 5 Comments

Competition: win a Left 4 Dead 2 Baseball Bat code

Zombies getting you down?  Blasting them away with impersonal projectile weapons losing that viceral appeal?  Want something a bit more tactile?  Want to let the zombies get so close that you can feel their hot rancid breath your face before dispatching them with a satisfying “thwonk”?  Then you need to get yourself a Baseball Bat.  [...]

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Fri, November 27 2009 » Competitions » 4 Comments

Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

It’s been 3 years now since New Super Mario Bros was released on the DS. Finally it has a sequel, but this time it’s returned on the Wii. And it’s returned with vengeance, horrible, horrible vengeance. Mario has never been so damn cruel and Joefeesh will tell you why…

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Fri, November 27 2009 » Reviews, Wii » 6 Comments

Review: Left 4 Dead 2

Game: Left 4 Dead 2 Format: PC, XBox 360 Developer: Valve Publisher: Electronic Arts Few games this year seem to have been more contentious than Left 4 Dead 2, announced at E3 2009 to what seemed to be a reaction of joy from one section of the crowd, and calls for boycott from another. The [...]

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Thu, November 26 2009 » PC/Mac, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 12 Comments

1. Grand Theft Auto IV

Here at The Newb Review we like to think that games journalism isn’t all about picking up popular games and telling you how great they are. Tom01255 has adopted this idiom as his own personal mantra as he delves into games that everyone seems to love, but he really doesn’t… Join us as he talks us [...]

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Wed, November 25 2009 » PC/Mac, PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 22 Comments