As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
News Family Ski Japanese Advert - Balance Board Compatible
Family Ski is Namco's attempt to bring all the fun of skiing - to the Wii.
Four player racing and Wii Balance Board support will be the highlight of the game although there is no official word when (or if) the game will make it to British shores. If it does we're expecting some kind of budget release. Now please hurry up and announce you're working...
News Worst Trailer Ever: SEGA Bass Fishing
Usually trailers try to lure us all into subconsciously deciding we can't do without a certain game. SEGA Bass Fishing's trailer has the opposite effect.
Reasons why this trailer is so, so bad: The two people sitting in a boat are poorly "stuck" onto a video game background. Why? The annoying country "cock" rock pisses me right...
News Mario Kart Wii Will Have Text Chat But No Voice Chat!
Which means you don't get a bunch of rowdy Americans asking if you're "Australian" or if you've "brushed your teeth today"?
You will not be able to chat in the actual games themselves (well you wouldn't be able to anyway unless you had 15 arms right?) but you will be able to create "lobbies" in which you can chat amongst your mates while...
News Resident Evil 0 Is Coming To Wii?
Rebecca Chambers and Billy Coen might be gearing up for a Wii release according to a report from Japanese "Bible" Famitsu.
Resident Evil 0 was an exclusive title for the GameCube way back in 2003 and filled in the events that happened before the "mansion incident" in Resident Evil (1). It follows the disappearance of the Bravo team and...
News Everyones Pokemon Channel
Previously known as Pokemon Ranch, Nintendo's Pokemon WiiWare release has been renamed.
According to information translated by the genius behind GoNintendo.com the ranch will be owned by Yukari, a friend of Bebe from Pokemon Diamond/Pearl. You'll be able to upload Pokemon from your DS into the Wii, storing up to 1,000 in the ranch. You can then also...
News Reggie: "No European Brawl 'Till Autumn"
Cue: disgruntled, spoiled British gamers stating "Nintendo Wii is teh shite" because we get Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit early to compensate.
In a recent interview with Reginald "Better Than Microsoft's Shane Kim" Fils-Aime on 1-UP.com's podcast he stated: Interviewer: "In terms of us [North America] getting Wii Fit and Mario Kart...
News Uh-oh! Wii Pay And Play...
Nintendo are to introduce new extensions to the Nintendo Wi-Fi experience that come with an additional charge. Sammy's not a happy chappy.
During Nintendo's presentation at the Games Developers Conference in San Francisco last week, Takashi Aoyama explained that they will begin "collecting fees for some services will allow us to adapt...
News More Wii Fit Balance Board Games To Come
According to Reggie Fils-Aime (Nintendo Legend) there are over "ten games" in development that take advantage of the Wii Balance Board. Not just the one trick pony it's been labelled as then?
According to Tech.co.uk Shigeru Miyamoto had the idea of a balance board long before the Wii (and Wii Fit) even came into existence. Miyamoto came up with the...
Review Transformers: Decepticons (DS)
Transformers: Decepticons is practically the same game as the Autobots edition told from the angle of the “evil” Starscream as opposed to the “heroic” Optimus Prime.
All the gameplay flaws are present (see our review of Transformers: Autobots for the full details) the only difference being you are treated with a whole new set of cut-scenes...
Review Transformers: Autobots (DS)
I, like most other Transformers fans was pretty upset to hear that my “backpocket interest” was to be thrust into the mainstream once again.
Having loved The Transformers since I was very young sometimes it’s pretty irritating hearing all the tweens talking about something you’ve loved so much longer than them. It must be some kind of...
News Commodore64 Is Coming To Virtual Console
I didn't really expect this. I bet you didn't expect it either, did you? Commodore 64 (the best selling computer model of it's time) is set to bring it's host of classic 80's video games to the Wii's Virtual Console. And you thought the Mario Kart Wii news yesterday was exciting.
Bala Keilman, CEO of Commodore Gaming said: "The massive impact...
News Five GameCube Games That Should Come To Wii
Wiivival
Given the GameCube's wonderful back-catalogue, here are five games we'd love to see come to the Wii. The PlayStation 2 had already run away with the “console war crown" a good year or so before the GameCube's launch and Nintendo's box never really packed any kind of punch worthy enough of denting Sony's dominance. With Microsoft...
News Mario Kart, Wii Fit And Smash Bros. Dated
Deciding to get their arse into gear for once Nintendo of Europe actually made some announcements the people wanted to hear.
Mario Kart will be released on April 11th in Europe, one day after the Japanese version gets a release. The game will take the Mario Kart series onto Nintendo Wi-Fi for the second time (Mario Kart DS being the first to feature...
News DJ Hero In The Pipeline? Chica-chica.
Activision are planning a spin-off to their ridiculously popular series, Guitar Hero.
According to CVG Activision have filed a trademark for a game titled "DJ Hero". The trademark reads: "Computer game software and related instruction manual sold together as a unit; interactive video game programs; computer game discs; downloadable...
News XBOX 720 And Wii2 In 2010? ZOMG!
Analyst of Pacific Crest Securities, Evan Wilson believes that Nintendo and Microsoft will ready new home consoles for release in 2010.
When talking to GameSpot about EA's problems Evan also went on to state that he believes Nintendo and Microsoft will stick to the five year console cycle in this generation. "We believe that peak industry...
EA have teamed up with Hasbro to create a new Wii and DS game called "Nerf N-Strike".
Nerf N-Strike claims to be "the first Nerf blaster action game" whereby "players can wreak havoc and perfect their blasting skills or challenge friends to clashes with both single and multi-player game modes". Not very exciting then? Wrong...
News Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tops A Million
The highly anticipated Nintendo game Super Smash Bros. Brawl has gone platinum after just 11 days of being on sale.
With a massive collection of Nintendo (, SEGA and Konami) characters aswell as a load of (almost kitsch) unlockables and extras, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is pretty much the Nintendo faithfuls wet-dream. It's no wonder it's selling so...
News "Wii Prototype" Goes Unsold On EBay
Well I thought this was funny. Really funny infact. You are welcome to disagree.
From eBay.co.uk Many years ago in a deserted Japanese airfield there lived 10 Nintendo scientists. Their job? To create a fun, entertaining next generation console - they succeeded. Unfortunetly for them they all had to be vapourised - this was so no other competitor...
News Microsoft Are Unaware Of The Game Wii Fit
Microsoft's corporate Vice President Shane Kim (what a cool name?) thinks that this generations console war winner has been called too early.
In an interview with New York Times Shane said: "The generation has a long way to go so it's way too early to declare a winner," he told the paper. "I remember a couple of weeks ago, a lot of...
News Mr. Brown Partial To A Wii Bit Of Tennis
In an interview with Eamonn "I Wish I Was Phillip Schofield" Holmes on BBC Radio Five Live, British Prime Minister Mr. Gordon Brown has confessed that his family own a Wii.
"The Wii is very popular," Brown said. "I have played a game of tennis, but I didn't succeed... It didn't leave me out of puff, but that was probably because I...
News Ninjabreadman 2 Is Confirmed...
Our very own Anthony Dickens' absolute favourite Wii game is to get a sequel.
Here's the press release: Guide Ninjabread man through Candy Land on his mission to rescue his girlfriend ‘Treacle Tart’ from the evil clutches of ‘Emperor Sly’ Fox and his three Fox Cub Overlords. NinjaBread Man: Blades of Fury will be a combat and exploration...
News Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition OUT NOW!
The genius' behind the Guinness Book Of Records have compiled a gamer's edition containing a host of facts, figures and information about all your favourite games.
Written in the same style as the Guinness Book Of Records this volume contains hundreds upon thousands of facts and trivia related to the game industry. Did you know that Lego Star Wars...
Some new scans from "Japanese-games-press-giant" Famitsu show Mii compatibility in the new Mario Kart game.
You will be able to import your Mii into your game and then take them online thanks to Nintendo Wi-Fi which is a really awesome touch in my opinion. It's all well and good having an avatar and gamertag in XBOX Live but how about having your...
Review Metroid Prime Pinball (DS)
Morph (pin)ball
“Chalk and cheese” is a phrase usually used when comparing two objects of juxtaposing qualities. Such a phrase could be applied to the titles “Metroid Prime” and “pinball”, so it's quite a compliment to developers “Fuse Games” that it merged these two contrasting entities into an enjoyable DS game. Metroid Prime...
