Who is the controller?
Here’s what we were picking from: Out This Week.
This week, we found ourselves standing next to some tarts from The Only Way Is Essex in Battersea Power Station one night and watching Leona Lewis sing to an ice rink the next, as gaming’s two sleb-slinging titans of hype, Microsoft and Activision, went head-to-head in London. Kinect hit the UK exactly 24 hours after Call of Duty: Black Ops, and no C-list guest appearance was left unbooked. Is that Sophie Ellis-Bextor again?
Understandably, everyone else ran screaming from the shops this week. Only brave little Sonic stuck his head above the parapet, emboldened by his recent success with Sonic 4 and managing the unprecedented feat of two decent games in a row. “It’s a riot of neon signage and lambent, Escher-like design, drunk on fizzing, synth-tinged J-Pop. It’s stupefyingly fast and utterly thrilling,” warbled Al of Sonic Colours, dizzied by the contrast with his usual diet of strategy games and German RPGs.