Megabits of Gaming

January 2011

Articles published by Megabits of Gaming in January 2011.

01 Jan 2011

Five tips for the top games in 2011

What a year 2010 was for gaming. For me, it had probably the most exciting release schedule I've seen in recent years across the three main platforms and my shelves have

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01 Jan 2011

Gamerscore Challenge: The first grand.

So, this year’s Gamerscore Challenge has been running for a fortnight. I wasn’t really expecting to have to do an update just yet, but the start of the challenge appears

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01 Jan 2011

Gamerscore Challenge: first update

I have unfortunately failed to be as prolific as Ibwib this past fortnight (blame that on recently acquiring the legendary Demon's Souls on PS3), but I've made a semi-dec

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01 Jan 2011

Golden eras of gaming: Wii Part II

While part one of our rundown of the Wii’s best games may have highlighted Nintendo’s habit of repackaging old content alongside newer goodies, the entries in part two ju

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01 Jan 2011

Golden eras of gaming: Wii

It seems slightly odd to be doing a Golden Era of Gaming entry for a console that’s still on the market, but the Wii justifies it. While the Xbox 360 offers a limited deg

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01 Jan 2011

HMV retails 3DS at £229.99

After the big 3DS reveal in Amsterdam and New York yesterday, HMV have become one of the first retailers back in blighty to officially put the handheld up for pre-order .

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01 Jan 2011

The Megabit’s 2011 Gamerscore Challenge

This time last year Bojeeva , inspired by Stallion83’s epic quest to reach a Gamerscore of one million, set himself the task of reaching a rather more realistic 20,000. H

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01 Jan 2011

Megabits column: Call of Duty Black Ops

A few months ago, Megabits of Gaming was asked to contribute a monthly column in Charged Middle East – a leading Dubai-based gadgets and games magazine that provides news

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01 Jan 2011

New Year's Gaming Resolutions

Ok, it’s nearly three weeks into the New Year, but I’ve been busy. We all moan about the things we wish developers would and wouldn’t do, the cheap habits they’ve got int

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01 Jan 2011

Out of iTouch when it comes to modern tech

Unlike many gamers and techno addicts I am of the character that if I see something I want, I wait and wait, primarily for the product to fall in price, before I go out a

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01 Jan 2011

Review: EA Sports Active 2

Combining gaming with fitness is an ingenious premise, don't you think? All that criticism about gamers being slovenly and bone idle go out the window thanks to the lates

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01 Jan 2011

Review - Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

So I’ve never read Journey to the West, the ye ‘olde Chinese storyline that Enslaved is claiming to be inspired by. Though I can extrapolate my experiences from the Dante

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01 Jan 2011

Review: Metro 2033

Whilst once the corridors of first person shooters were prowled by grizzled space marines with a intolerant attitude towards those of extra terrestrial origin, these days

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01 Jan 2011

Review: nail'd

Racing games nowadays pride themselves on being steeped in realism, of capturing the very essence of speeding round a track and providing gamers with the closest thing to

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01 Jan 2011

Review: Super Meat Boy

While I do tend to talk a fair share about video games to the people in my life, I try to skew the conversation towards the interests of said person. My macho-would-be-to

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01 Jan 2011

Review - Your Shape: Fitness Evolved

Never has a game left me in so much pain. Quite whether you can call Fitness Evolved a game is perhaps a little debatable - but it certainly achieves exactly what it prom

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01 Jan 2011

Sony unveils Next Generation Portable

The internet is awash with news of the latest addition to Sony’s line up – the Next Generation Portable (or NGP to its friends). It may look just like the original PlaySt

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01 Jan 2011

VIDEO: LEGO Call of Duty Black Ops

Danish favourite LEGO has taken the gaming world by storm in recent years. No longer are the little plastic blocks only lurking in the bottom of every self-respecting chi

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