At this year’s GameCity Squared festival, OneBigGame announced their first title in a series of mini-games for charity. The first release is Chime, a music-based Tetris-esq Xbox Live Arcade title, created by Zoë Mode, which will hit XBL this Winter.

When you think of a games event, places like LA, Tokyo and Leipzig instantly come to mind. They’re the places to go for a good games show. Yet videogame culture festival GameCity Squared proves that Nottingham has the power to be up there with the big names.

A new system for helping recovering stroke victims was unveiled at Nottingham’s GameCity Squared festival, based on computer games.

 The game review has become the most popular and heavily debated feature of the gaming press, taking on many forms and styles. GameCity decided it was time to finally find the ‘definitive’ game review, and brought together a panel of renowned games journalists (and a few drinks) to write it.

Format: Xbox 360 (tested), PlayStation 3
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Artificial Mind and Movement

Very often as gamers we all watch films in awe, thinking just one thing: ‘Hell, I’d LOVE to play that’. Clearly developers do too, if they didn’t many of our favourite gaming sequences would never exist. However, WET proves that perhaps we should force cinema and videogames to remain separated art forms.

Format: PC, WiiWare
Publisher: TellTale Games
Developer: TellTale Games / Lucas Arts

In the third chapter of Tales of Monkey Island, it finally feels like the developers at TellTale have found their feet. Lair of the Leviathan may still not excel like the original series, but this third entry feels closer to the original style than its predecessors, and finally provides a sturdy narrative.

In just a week’s time the city of Nottingham will become GameCity Squared – ‘the world’s best loved videogame culture festival’.

Format: Xbox 360
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Bungie

The important question is ‘Do you like Halo?’ If the answer is yes, you will love ODST. If not, there’s little chance that the latest in Bungie’s hugely successful franchise will change your mind about the series.

Residents of Australia, how I feel sorry for you. A country that did so much to defeat Fascism back in the day, but now embraces it... well, on the censorship front.