Juarez! Insect Armageddon! PS3 Double Packs!
This week sees gaming’s first Western since last year’s epic Red Dead Redemption. Can Call of Juarez: The Cartel compete? The third entry in Techland’s cowboy series is taking a very bold tack – uprooting the shooting from the genre’s classic timeframe and dumping gamers in the modern day.
Remember the bit in Honey I Shrunk the Kids where the miniaturised children find the huge ant? Well, imagine a whole army of giant pincer-gnashing Antie lookalikes who are pure evil, and that’s Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.
With summer apparently in full swing, Microsoft has again sounded the call for gamers to begin their annual pilgrimage to Xbox Live. Xbox owners who make the trek to their console’s Marketplace are rewarded with a weekly oasis of gaming gems to quench their thirst from the retail release summer drought.