Do you want game trailers? Do you want tons of El33tonline editorials and features? How about some reviews, previews and exciting announcements? Then cast your minds back to last week when we pasted up vast collections of all of these things, plus more, and look over our round-up of videogame news for the week ending February 5th!

Of course, you can look forward to more of this content this week, too, but just in case you missed any of it, here’s what happened last week:

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3DS games are not much cheaper than their console counterparts yet most of the time they feature far less content and replay value. Resident Evil: Revelations is one of the first games specifically designed for a handheld which offers a console-like experience in terms of graphical fidelity, production values and wealth of content on offer. It’s easy to get sucked into Revelations thanks to its atmospheric environments and compelling gameplay and at the height of your immersion you completely forget that you’re playing a portable title.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Resident Evil: Revelations.

If you have to sum up Saints Row: The Third in one word it has to be ‘crazy.’ With the amount of weird and wonderful activities and characters it was hard to imagine that it could get any weirder. The weirdest of them all was the cat-like Professor Genki, and when you hear that the new downloadable content is called Genkibowl VII you know things are about to get pushed up a notch or two.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Saints Row: The Third – Genkibowl VII (DLC).

The world has seen the last of the polar ice caps, global warming has raised the sea-level by a few meters and the world map looks completely different. Huge corporations have taken over the world and everything has been reduced to a race for making the biggest buck. This is the world of Anno 2070, a look into our future.

Even though Anno 2070 is a real-time strategy game you should be warned that this isn’t your StarCraft 2 or Command and Conquer RTS with lots of units and lots of action. Yes, you have combat in Anno 2070, but this game is for the budding economist.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Anno 2070.

I am not a big fan of scary games. I have played my fair share to know that the cerebral function of self-preservation does not require poop in my pants. In fact, it functions much better without. I do enjoy good games, however, be they scary or not. For that reason I loved Dead Space and Alan Wake with the same passion as other, less scary games such as The Sims 3. OK, that’s a bad example. Some of my Sims are scary as hell!

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of AMY.

Before the days of digital balance boards and body-strapping cardio sensors, games were more about fun and less about running on the spot and counting calories. I’m talking about late night pizza and a bunch of mates kicking back with a round of darts, pool or ten-pin bowling.

Enter Puma After Hours Athletes, featuring High Velocity Bowling, Hustle Kings and Top Darts. It’s an affordable collection of three PlayStation Network exclusive games including the latest downloadable content all crammed inside a shiny Blu-ray disc.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of After Hours Athletes.

Hot dang, the world of videogames has been shunted into 2012! The usually ‘quiet’ beginning period of the year has already seen a torrent of news and El33tonline has been keeping up the pace, with features of our own to complement the deluge.

And we’re only just getting started.

After a successful and highly enjoyable meeting of Durban gamers this past weekend, and ahead of another busy week with events in Johannesburg and Cape Town as well as another wave of game announcements, let’s catch up on the week of January 15th with El33tonline’s round-up of videogame news:

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Batman has to be the best type of hero. He doesn’t have special powers (unless wealth counts as a super power). It means just about any one of us can dream to be a superhero with having to be bitten by a spider or be from another planet. Controlling Batman in a game and still having fun has eluded us for many years. Batman: Arkham Asylum was one of the first to let us convincingly fill the shoes of Batman.

I expected the sequel to that game to flop as they would not change enough, and because of the open world. Batman enjoys freedom of movement though and I was very soon proven to be wrong on all fronts: Batman: Arkham City is truly a great game.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Batman: Arkham City.

A long time ago, early in 2011, a fighting game was released that was the continuation of every comic book gamer’s dream come true. Marvel VS Capcom 3 featured 36 fighters from two of the most loved universes, with Marvel characters like Spider-man, Wolverine, The Hulk, Thor and Iron Man - what a line-up! - and Capcom characters like Dante, Ryu and Viewtiful Joe.

Even with such a great roster, however, there were a few whispers of diseent in the crowds. Some were not happy with the list of playable characters.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3.

PC gaming enthusiasts are constantly tinkering away on their monster rigs, trying to squeeze every last frame per second out of them, adding a few more polygons and rounding a few more curves. But one item that is often overlooked in a system upgrade is the hard disk drive. What difference will a new hard drive make to an old system? Well, we’re here to find out.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of the Kingston HyperX 240Gb Solid State Drive.

For another look at this device, you can read our first review of the Kingston HyperX 240Gb Solid State Drive over here.

It’s been over a year now since Sony launched its motion-based technology called the PlayStation Move and since then many game developers have thrown in their lots. We’ve seen sporting games, virtual pets and sharp-shooters but every once in a while a game comes out that epitomizes motion gaming and Carnival Island is one of those games.

With over 35 entertaining carnival games, plenty of unlockable characters and an exhilarating party mode, you won’t have to wait for the circus to come to town to have some magical family fun.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Carnival Island.

Pokémon Rumble was a game released on WiiWare in November 2009, a very simple action-RPG where your toy Pokémon brawled other toy Pokémon and was criticised for being short on content. Super Pokémon Rumble for the 3DS addresses this, but the main gameplay mechanics are too thin to last any reasonable length of time. The game is fun for a few hours but soon becomes tedious.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Super Pokémon Rumble.

The fourth and final game in the Professor Layton series for the Nintendo DS maintains the same high quality of the previous three. They’ve almost become an end-of-year institution, and I for one really enjoy my annual Layton adventure with brain-tickling puzzles.

The story of the Spectre’s Call takes place a number of years before the story of the Curious Village, in the days before Luke became Layton’s apprentice. So this time we are treated to a new apprentice character, the light-hearted Emmy Altava. She joins him as his apprentice just as he’s on his way to Misthallery after a mysterious letter from an old friend.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call.

For the very first week of 2012, there was an inordinate amount of interesting news in the videogame world with full game announcements, at least one delay and a good collection of screenshots and trailers making their way out into the wild.

El33tonline did its part to inject some excitement into proceedings with a smattering of features and reviews, acting as the tiniest of tastes of things to come. The tiniest.

What were some of the most exciting and important things to happen in videogames this past week? Let’s take a look:

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Blackwater is a game that endeared itself to me before I had even inserted the disc. Blackwater is trying to be a little different from most other games - I like different. It’s not your typical first-person shooter and it’s not your typical Kinect game - Blackwater certainly is trying to be new with its choice of Kinect or traditional controller for shooter gameplay.

I appreciate the practical side of a game that offers gamers a choice and even if the Kinect or traditional controller option doesn’t work this time around, the idea is a sound one that hopefully more developers will consider in the future if their game seems suitable for both types of control.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Blackwater