Tag: GAME

SHINY PREVIEW: Rubik's Touch Cube

Rubiks puzzles. I hate them. Never could solve one. Never had the patience to. However, I do appreciate the genius of their design, well, I did. Until I met the Rubik’s Touch Cube.

The trouble is that it’s exactly the same mental proposition as the original Rubik’s Cube only with a completely rubbish interface in the way. From my, admittedly limited, time with the one in the vid, I found the touch effect pretty terrible and, given that they’re charging £139.99 for each one when they’re launched, I’d chalk it up as “one for the enthusiast”.

Daniel Sung Toys

Championship Manager 2010 – girlfriends beware

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Eidos is to release the umpteenth instalment of the hugely popular Championship Manager series in September. The release date should mean that all squad data should be up to date as the transfer deadline would have been and gone.

I don’t need to bore you all with the features of the latest version, fans of the series will know that the update will merely be an improved version of last season’s game.

What is exciting, however, is the CM Season Live feature. Starting in October, with updates every month until April, players will be able to download a patch that updates all data on the game – from 49 major leagues – in line with what’s happening real life. League tables, results, goal scorers, injuries, transfers – the whole shebang.

Players will, therefore, be able to try and beat real life managers in real scenarios. Fancy having a go at winning Serie A with AC Milan when they’re 11 points behind neighbours Inter at Christmas? You can. Or fancy having a go at keeping Spurs up when they’re deep in the mire with only a handful of games left? Not likely, but you can give it a go.

Purists of football management games will argue that Football Manager is the king of the genre but the live feature of the latest Championship Manager release may just be enough to persuade a few doubters.

Not that I’ll be able to try it out though. My ‘champs’ days are well and truly over – things came to a head with the missus a couple of years back regarding the excessive hours I was putting into my ‘career’ and I was somehow convinced to retire from the game. It was a sad day – I had built up a Busby-esque reputation within the game.

Championship Manager 2010 will be available all over the place come September as well as direct from Eidos.

Paul Lamkin Gaming

Playfish to release new game next week

Playfish founder Sebastien de Halleux has confirmed that the company plan to release their latest title, Crazy Planets, next week.

Speaking with Tech Digest de Halleux said the game would include “robots, explosions and lots of teaming up with your friends to blow things up”. Sounds good eh?

The title, as with all Playfish titles, will be accessible across a range of social networking platforms including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. It will be playable via PC, netbook, smartphones….almost everywhere you can log onto to your social network, you can play Playfish games.

Previous titles have proved massively popular – Pet Society has almost as many gamers as World of Warcraft – a whopping 11 million.

Titles are free, although there are pay-for options within the games. de Halleux told us that in Crazy Planets this would involve customising weapons and planets.

We at Tech Digest like Playfish. Their breed of social network based gaming is a refreshing change to the usual gaming experience. Expect to read more about Playfish on the blog in the future.

Check out this sneak peak of Crazy Planets:

Paul Lamkin Gaming, Internet