Yes, that’s right, we’re now publishing reader reviews here on Kotaku. This is your chance to deliver sensible game purchasing advice to the rest of the Kotaku community.

And thanks to the very kind chaps at Madman Entertainment, purveyor of all kinds of cool, indie and esoteric film, the best reader review we publish each month will win a prize pack containing ten of the latest Madman DVD releases.

This review was submitted by Ben Carey. If you’ve played Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, or just want to ask Ben more about it, leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (PSN)

As far as I’m concerned, having a fifteen syllable title alone makes this game awesome. However, if I’d never played the game before, a title like this would make me think of a next generation, revamped Destruction Derby, which, incidentally I would be very keen on.

The easiest way to describe SARPBC is this: it’s basically soccer with nitrous oxide fuelled remote controlled cars. That would make a good title in itself.

Loved

Bang for Your Buck: Nowhere else will you find this much quality gameplay for under ten dollars. The aim of the offline mode is to collect as many stars as you can. There are 100 stars to collect in the mini-game mode and 65 to collect in the tournament mode. These modes are both excellent training for when you start playing against real people. You have to practise your flips and twirls and pirouettes, let me tell you.

Multiplayer: Perhaps even more enjoyable is playing with (or against) your friends. You can play with a mix of human players and NPCs or you can keep it strictly man vs machine, if that’s what you prefer.

Replay Function: Replay mode makes you feel like god: you can freeze time; slow it down or speed it up; fast-forward or rewind; and rotate the camera (which allows for Matrix-cam). You can even edit it up and upload it straight to YouTube (and trust me, there are times you will definitely want to).

Hated

Online: The online mode is clunky and prone to lag. It’s not uncommon to try and steal the ball only to find it’s already in your goal at the other end of the field.

SARPBC has a lot of replay value, and occasionally the developers add new tracks, at no extra charge. Now that’s value!

Reviewed by: Ben Carey

You can have your Reader Review published on Kotaku. Send your review to us at the usual address. Make sure it’s written in the same format as above and in under 300 words – yes, we’ve upped the word limit. We’ll publish the best ones we get and the best of the month will win a Madman DVD prize pack.

And now it’s priced at $AU80.

A 2K spokesperson explained the change:

“Unfortunately due to an internal error, Borderlands was briefly available for download on Steam for Australian users at an incorrect price. We have since reposted the game for the discounted price of AU$79.95 and apologise for the inconvenience.”

Discounted? Hmm. Sure, in store it retails for $AU89.95 RRP. But I’m not really sure how the new Steam price is a discount on the old Steam price…

UPDATE: Looks like we’re still waiting on the Steam Store to update. Shouldn’t be too long. It’s up.

Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles is coming to Wii next week. It’s an excellent light-gun shooter that retells the events of Resident Evil 2. Thanks to our friends at Capcom, we have five Darkside Chronicles prize packs to give away.

Each pack contains:

* The Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles Wii Zapper Bundle
* The best promo t-shirt we’ve ever seen (pictured)
* A Darkside Chronicles pen
* A Darkside Chronicles medical mask
* A Raccoon City Police Dept wallet

How do you win?

You need to send us a photo of yourself (and a friend, it’s a co-op game after all) proving how well prepared you are for the zombie apocalypse. The most imaginative, creative, inventive and downright funny entries will win.

You’ve got until midnight, Sunday, November 29, to get your entry in. Send it to the usual address with Darkside Chronicles in the subject line. Only one entry per person, please!

Good luck!

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Soundbytes is celebrating its first birthday with its fifth gig in Melbourne tonight. The venue is the Queensberry Hotel (cnr of Swanston and Queensberry) and just $10 will get you inside for six sets of chiptunes, ie. music that sounds very much like old video game music.

Soundbytes 5 [DPad, thanks Drew!]

This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interesting in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know enough about us — more than you even want to, we’re sure. But, hey, we’d like to know about you, too.

Anyway, here’s today’s question…

No one can play every game. No one has the time. But what one game fills you with the most shame to admit that you’ve never played? Not even once.

Me? I suspect my gamer credentials could be drawn into question with the admission I’ve never played World of Warcraft. I’ve seen other people play it – my housemate plays it all the time – but I’ve never once myself ventured into the MMO world of Azeroth. I feel OK about that, though. The years it apparently takes to get anywhere in WoW are surely better served playing, you know, all the other games out there.

It’s a point-and-click adventure game taking its cue from the likes of Samorost rather than LucasArts. Screens are self-contained puzzles involving often elaborate and always contrived interactions. For example, to wake your brother in the opening scene, you must shoot him with your slingshot… but only when the fly is buzzing right above his head.

It can get a little obtuse, and you will end up clicking randomly on every interactable object, but it also looks quite lovely so you won’t mind spending a little longer than strictly necessary in its twisted little world.

Gretel and Hansel [Newgrounds]

I’ll update this post with the answer at 5pm today if no one has guessed before then. Or if you do guess it before then, feel free to share your memories of a classic game.

Good luck!