26 | October | 2012 | "DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!"

Criterion’s new multiplayer-centric racing game (which also has a fine single player component) has some spectacular speed (the rock-solid smoothest 30fps racer you’ll play this year), a massive open world feel and constant action even when you’re blasting around on the way to events. Plenty of licensed cars, plenty of racing action and plenty of opportunities to raise havoc online of off means plenty of time spent sunk into your couch when you should be doing more productive things. Then again, getting to the top of your Autolog listing and staying there IS important, grrrr! EA has a winner here – go let them know it with a buy, I say…

Hmmm… it looks as if this 3DS and DS game based on yet another popular hipster kiddie cartoon I’ve yet to see other than when flipping through channels at random or something like that is DONE and all set for its November 20 launch. I may not have seen the show, but I really want to play this game, as it looks like a hell of a lot of fun. That and WayForward Technologies really knows how to make some awesome games. D3Publisher of America has at least two games I’m really pleased to see coming – this one and EDF 2017 Portable (which is pretty stellar stuff from the many hours I’m sinking into the import version). Anyway, Candy Kingdom? My teeth aren’t pleased by that location, but the brain, eyeballs and fingers are happy campers…