The GameShadow Blog

This one’s not going to seal up until 2009 when the BBFC actually takes over and the shit does or doesn’t hit the fan. Earlier this year, the Byron report recommended the BBFC take control of all game rating in the UK for titles aimed at the over 12s, where up until now the BBFC [...]

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Tam Fry, exec of the National Obesity Forum in the UK, has lashed out at Nintendo for branding perfectly healthy children as fat in Wii Fit. The game uses the (obviously inappropriate and archaic) Body Mass Index system for calculating physical health. It compares your height and weight, [...]

Hardly shocking – but I’m for once going to remain non-cynical on this one. I may even be slightly positive about it. Yes, plainly EA has identified Nintendo’s inventive and astounding success with Wii Fit and the Balance Board, and has a case of the Me-Toos. It wouldn’t be EA if it hadn’t. However, as [...]

According to the People, Her Majesty is a fan of Nintendo’s new console. Prince William’s girlfriend Kate Middleton bought him the console for Christmas, and now can’t get her away from it. The People says she saw William playing ten-pin bowling, begged to have a go and “by all accounts was a natural.” Will we [...]

I’m a big fan of decent writing in games. So much so that I’ve adored some stinkers for making me laugh (Armed and Dangerous), and hated some fantastic titles for their disappointing narratives (Bioshlock). I’ve recently been playing Phoenix Wright and Hotel Dusk on DS. They’re both elements of the prestigious recent movement towards reinventing [...]

Merry Christmas to all those countries that worship the eternal god, consumerism. Hello to everyone else. Yes, the Christmas rush is well and truly over. All the games that were going to get rushed into production in time for the big day are already sitting under Christmas trees, and all the releases that didn’t quite [...]

Call it opportunist, call it cynical exploitation, call it downright cheeky or just call it a good marketing idea – we’ve just discovered that The Carphone Warehouse have managed to get hold of some Nintendo Wiis (which as most gamers are aware are currently harder to get hold of than a decent English football manager) and they’re offering [...]

Are you sick to death of playing games on your PC? Of course you not, after all you’re not insane or anything? Are you? Having said that, maybe like a guilty schoolboy outside an adult bookstore, you’ve been recently tempted by one of the other spanky looking game machines winking suggestively at you from the shelves? Shame on you, Gameshadow can’t possibly [...]

There’s an ongoing media battle between those who insist gaming is destroying our fragile and mislead youth, and those who champion gaming as a legitimate form of entertainment, no more to blame for the hoodies and knife-crime generation than Schwarzenegger or Irvine Welsh. For every five… ten… twenty bad examples (GTA, Manhunt, Bully…) well, for [...]

Recent announcements from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have shown the differing costs of launching a console: Microsoft’s shares rose more than 10% yesterday after their quarterly results announcement showed strong results in the Vista and Office divisions, while sales of Halo 3 pushed the consumer division, which includes the Xbox 360, into profit. Nintendo announced it has [...]