Heres the latest game official chart over all platforms(clearly dominated by Nintendo):

1. Wii Fit (wii)
2. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (360, Ps3) Trailer
3. Mystery Case Files: Millionheir (DS)
4. Call of Duty: World at War (All format) Review
5. Fifa 09 (All format)
6. Mario Kart wii (wii)
7. Wii Play (wii)
8. My Fitness Coach (wii)
9. Professor Layton (DS)
10. Mario and Sonic: Olympics (wii, DS)
11. Left 4 Dead (360, Ps3)
12. Guitar Hero: World Tour (360, Ps2, Ps3, wii)
13. Ben 10: Alien Force (Ps2, PsP, wii, DS)
14. Grand Theft Auto IV (360, Ps3, PC)
15. House of the Dead: Overkill (wii)
16. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (DS)
17. Carnival: Funfair Games (wii, DS)
18. Need for Speed: Undercover (All format) Review
19. Lego Batman (All format)
20. Tomb Raider: Underworld (all format)
21. Skate 2 (360, Ps3) Review
22. Puzzler Collection (DS)
23. Lego Indiana Jones (All format)
24. Football Manager 2009 (Mac, PsP, PC)
25. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360, Ps3, PC, DS)
26. Shaun White Snowboarding (All format)
27. Lord of the Rings: Conquest (360, Ps3, PC)
28. Mario Kart DS (DS)
29. Pro Evo 2009 (360, Ps2, Ps3, PsP, PC)
30. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
31. More Brain Training (DS)
32. Guitar Hero 3: Ledgends of Rock (360, Ps2, Ps3, wii)
33. Little Big Planet (Ps3) Videos
34. Sonic Unleashed (360, Ps2, Ps3, wii)
35. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (360, Ps2, Ps3, wii, DS)
36. Burnout: The Ultimate Box (360, Ps3)
37. Big Beach Sports (wii)
38. Saints Row 2 (360, Ps3, PC)
39. Quantum of Solace (All format)
40. Disney’s Bolt (all consoles)

Infinty ward have announced that the Variety map pack will become half price for Xbox live and PlayStation Network.

here’s what infinity ward had to say on the matter:

“Starting Tuesday Feb. 24th, the Variety Map Pack will become 50% off for those of you who still need to pick it up, leading up to the promotion, I’ll also be giving out tokens to download it for free on Twitter. When the last weekend of Feb. hits, starting Friday Feb. 27th and going until Monday morning, we’ll be flipping the ol’ mighty Double XP switch one more time!”

this should keep COD4 interesting for a little while longer.

GTA4 The Lost and Damned is said to be the biggest piece of downloadable content available to date. Expanding the original game with a whole new storyline as well as new weapons, characters and vehicles which can give over 20 hours of mission based gameplay.

Though priced at a hefty 1600 Microsoft Points, this is a substantial addition to the original game and could happily get the game off the owners shelves and back into their consoles.

view the trailer below:

Over the weekend i had the opportunity to download and play the demo version of the new combat flight game HAWX from xbox live marketplace.

The demo unfortunately only allows use of a training mission and the first combat mission of the game, but this just leaves you wanting more

The training pits you against a few target drones and teaches you the control system, which takes 2 forms, in “assistance on” mode you fly like any usual combat simulator but with a double tap of either trigger, your taken into “assistance off” mode, which gives you enhanced control of the plane at the cost of hightened likelyhood of stalling the engines. using this flight mode you can outmanuvre your enemies with ease, and if you do stall the plane (which you will alot when your first starting) righting yourself is as simple as pointing the nose down and whacking up the throttle. overall the control systems are easy to master and youll be swatting away enemy planes in no time.

After the training your given the opportunity to pick a plane and weapon loadout for the first mission, unfortunatley you only get to choose an f16 and an air supremecy missile set but this system looks easy to use and should be excellent in the full game. il definatley be having a look at this game when it comes out next month.

Teaser Trailer:

The soon to be released HAWX is a highly anticipated air combat game tied into the Tom Clancy universe.

You play as the leader of an elite group of pilots knows as HAWX, your job is to provide air superiority wherever its needed.

Here’s some in-game footage from the cockpit view:

Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection is a massive 40 games on one disk. the games are all well known and well loved Sega classics such as the sonic games (naturally), all 3 streets of rage games and altered beast rendered into HD. the full list of games is as follows:

1. Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
2. Alien Storm
3. Altered Beast
4. Beyond Oasis
5. Bonanza Bros.
6. Columns
7. Comix Zone
8. Decap Attack starring Chuck D. Head
9. Dr. Robotnik’s MBM
10. Dynamite Headdy
11. Ecco the Dolphin
12. Ecco II: The Tides of Time
13. E-SWAT
14. Fatal Labyrinth
15. Flicky
16. Gain Ground
17. Golden Axe I
18. Golden Axe II
19. Golden Axe III
20. Kid Chameleon
21. Phantasy Star II
22. Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
23. Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
24. Ristar
25. Shining in the Darkness
26. Shining Force
27. Shining Force 2
28. Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
29. Sonic 3D Blast
30. Sonic and Knuckles
31. Sonic Spinball
32. Sonic the Hedgehog
33. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
34. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
35. Streets of Rage
36. Streets of Rage 2
37. Streets of Rage 3
38. Super Thunder Blade
39. Vectorman
40. Vectorman 2

so if any of you are feeling a little nostalgic about the “good ol’ days”
get this.

Street fighter is the single most recognizable fighting game in the world. With 3 games and multitudes of revamped remakes. Finally Capcom make their comeback with an all new Street Fighter game, Street Fighter 4. instead of making the jump to a 3d gameplay style, Capcom opted to stick to 2 dimensional combat whilst making the characters and arenas 3d. making this animated brawlfest graphically stunning.

watch the amazing trailer below:

The Need for Speed series is one of the longest running and most popular racing game franchises today.

Undercover sees you take to the streets as an undercover cop posing as a street racer to work deep into the city’s criminal heart. Very well made cinematicaly, this game features characters played by the likes of Christina Millian acting in a live action cutscenes bringing the story together.

While graphically brilliant, Undercover seems a little rushed to be completed, i cant help thinking if theyd spent an extra 6 months focusing on the gameplay, this would be an all round masterpiece.

The in game driving is fairly good, but can be twitch and hard to control. customization seems lacking in a few areas where previous need for speed titles exell. again it feels rushed. there seem far too few choices for body kits and such, whereas other areas like wheels are far too overpopulated.

The game has a stunning array of  cars ranging from ford escorts to full blown hyper cars such as the Pagani Zonda and Buggati Veyron, unfortunately these cars handle nothing like there real world counterparts, i guess EA are leaving that for simulations like Forza 2.

Overall this game is good, but could be far far better had EA spent more time thinking “how can we make a brilliant game?” and less time thinking “how fast can we get this in stores?”

The party piece of the call of duty series has always been its online multiplayer. most of all with the recent Call of duty 4: Modern Warfare, becoming the most popular all format multiplayer game in history.

World at War, or CoD5 as many people call it, is no let down in the online department either. With a relatively lag free server network and upto and above 250,000 users playing online at any one time (on xbox live alone), CoD5 is shaping up to be another record breaker added to the series.

The weapon system is in pretty much the same format as CoD4, unlocking new guns as you gain in rank, and various attachments for each weapon when you get a set number of kills with them. Guns range from bolt action rifles such as the American Springfield, to a classically styled double barrel shotgun. where as attachments can be anything from a bipod to mount your lumbering machine gun, to a bayonet to increase you melee range.

The maps are well designed and diverse, and if all the little glitches Treyarch missed are ironed out in updates, they are very cleanly made. settings range from the tiny “dome” map,  set on the roof of the German headquarters.to “seelow” a huge farm setting where tanks are the fastest way to get from one side to the other.

As for the tanks, they prove to make a big difference, love them or hate them you will always have to deal with them on the larger maps. in my eyes they are overpowered and over armored, they can fire a single shell in the general direction of a foot soldier and get a kill, whereas if said tank is hit directly with 2 or more bazooka rockets it may yet survive.

Unlike any Call of Duty title previous to it, World at War has a excellent co-op mode with up to 4 players. Consisting of the 2 campaign modes competitive (where players gain points from killing enemies) and non competitive, although both entertaining and rewarding, there not the best part of the co-op modes. That honor goes to the Nazi Zombies mode, in which you have to defend a house from waves of attacking undead. i find this alone a rival to games like Left4Dead despite being only a minigame.

overall call of duty: World at War is an excellent multiplayer game and with the map pack being released later this year, playable long after the single player mode has grown boring.

Homecoming is the latest in the series Silent Hill, one of the most famous thriller action games ever made, as well as one of the scariest. i can remember playing a PlayStation demo disk with the demo of the original silent hill when i was a kid. the fact your only warning of an incoming baddie was the sound of a heartbeat was chilling. with any luck this new installment will be as scary as the origional was in its day.