Cadavarous.

Ugh.  We hate weeks like this.  All the big xmas games are out now and there’s nothing on the release lists worth mentioning and all anyone involved in games journalism wants to talk about is some GTA4 bollocks download.

The main reason for this is it makes it harder for us to nick find any decent news.  It seems this week all we’ve got is Nintendo saying that they are single handedly driving the whole industry, Halo Wars being the most downloaded demo ever and Microsoft claiming that January was Live’s most successful ever month.  We don’t care.

It'll end with Richard Blackwood.

Urgh!  What is it?  Why’s it all different?!

Well, sexy readers, PEOWW was a year old last November and so it was probably about time we started doing things properly (ie – not in Notepad).  So, what we’ve got here is the new PEOWW which is all sat on a database and shit like that.  I dunno.  It’ll be just as ropey as before but now you’ll be able to search for reviews and comment on things.  It’ll also mean that we might start updating during the week and stuff.

Old PEOWW had over 130 reviews and almost 60 features and we’re hard at work maxing out Skate 2 importing them in and making sure everything works but for now, here’s what we’ve got.  Ta from PEOWW.

Offensive.

We didn’t rate Shaun White Snowboarding a whole lot. To sum it up, it’s a piece of shit excuse for a snowboarding game which features an absolute bellend. It’s our most hated game of 2008. Regardless of what next week’s awards say.

However, Ubisoft have actually made us hate it more with a bit of DLC called the ‘Glamour Pack’. Anyone who buys this isn’t welcome here but, just in case you’re curious, it features coats, pants, bags, boards and various other accessories that you won’t be able to see 99% of the time.

Ubisoft really are cunts. Still, at least none of you paid full price for Shaun White Snowboarding…. right?

Shiny

The fact is that if you want to play a beat ’em up on the 360, you need to either own a Hori stick (if you can find one) or you need to go back in time and punch whatever Microsoft twat designed the 360 pad in his fat, stupid head.

Well, Mad Catz (purveyors of dogshit peripherals like this are releasing a bunch of Street Fighter 4 flavoured controllers. There’s a joypad (see that pic on the left) based on the old Saturn one and a couple of arcade sticks.

It all looks a bit good (are you that arsed about SF4 though?) but the price (£25 for the pad, £70 for the cheapest stick) seem a bit gash but we’d probably pay that for a decent d-pad these days. We just wouldn’t pay full price for Shaun White Snowboarding (bLOL).