Game: BlindGiRl Format: Xbox 360 Live Indie Games Developer: GLPeas Publisher: GLPeas (Indie Game) GLPeas are a Derby-based Indie Developer and BlindGiRl is their second game on Xbox LIVE. Braindead_Hero reviewed Carcophony a while back and was pretty positive about it. Their second game is something totally different; not only from their previous title, but [...]
Thu, May 6 2010 » X-Box 360 » 3 Comments
“The Wii is for babies.” “There aren’t any hardcore games on the Wii.” “I never play my Wii because there aren’t any games.” Are these the kind of things you find yourself saying to your friends and on forums as you consider how much money you might get if you trade in your Wii? Then [...]
Wed, April 21 2010 » Articles, Other formats, Wii » 4 Comments
With the rest of The Newb Review staff either off sick or getting married, join Tom and Joe as they discuss the latest gaming news, including Final Fantasy IX coming to Japanese PSN and Microsoft finally embracing external storage. Leave us a review on iTunes. When we hit 50 reviews we will give a game [...]
Sun, April 11 2010 » Newbreview Podcast » 3 Comments
Game: Plants Vs. Zombies Format: iPhone/iPod Touch Developer: PopCap Publisher: PopCap Braaaains… What would you do if the zombie apocalypse landed on your lawn? Listeners to the podcast will know that our own Braindead_Hero has got his plans worked out, but are you prepared? Obviously your first port of call is to get yourself down to the [...]
Tue, March 30 2010 » Reviews, iPhone / iPod » 1 Comment
Today Tom, Kieran, Luke and Joe take command of the airwaves to tackle the hot topics from the world of video games. With a potential Final Fantasy 7 remake, Little Big Planet 2, Killzone 3 and a stand-alone 250gb XBox 360 the guys have plenty of news for you to digest. Of course, we have [...]
Thu, March 25 2010 » Newbreview Podcast » 5 Comments
Please child, just stop. You need not try so hard. I accept what you are, but so too do I see what you are becoming. What you are doing is no more than logical and I acknowledge your success. But child, with such a brain, do you have the heart to match?
Fri, March 19 2010 » A letter to..., Articles » 6 Comments
Joefeesh has had the opportunity to have a sneaky little looky at an upcoming release on the Playstation 3, called 3D Dot Heroes. Are you excited by the very mention of this game? If not, then you probably haven’t seen the screenshots below yet. The first thing you’ll notice when you look at the game [...]
Wed, March 17 2010 » PS3, Previews » 2 Comments
Game: Kakuro Mania Format: iPhone/iPod Touch Developer: Boyan Kolev (Independant) Publisher: Indie Developer Consulting/Boyan Kolev I’d never consider puzzlers as my favourite genre of games. Maybe it’s because when I sit down on a Friday evening to get really stuck into a game, a puzzler would never even come to mind over an action, RPG [...]
Tue, March 2 2010 » iPhone / iPod » 1 Comment
Game: Darksiders Format: XBox 360 Developer: Vigil Games Publisher: THQ As an avid comic book reader, the name Joe Madureira (or Joe Mad as he likes to be called) is a familiar one. Rising to prominence in the mid 1990s as the artist on Uncanny X-Men, Joe Mad built up enough of a following to [...]
Fri, February 26 2010 » PS3, Reviews, X-Box 360 » 8 Comments
We are generally a casual gamer friendly site over here at The Newb Review. However, one thing that really perturbs us is vexatious ‘non-gamers’ or ‘game-muggles’ assaulting us with their narrow minded, uneducated comments! But fret not fellow gaming enthusiasts, for we have compiled a library of witty and wholly appropriate come-backs or ‘truth-bombs’ to give [...]
Fri, February 5 2010 » Articles, iRate » 6 Comments
