Clark wrote up an excellent review of Fire Emblem Awakening recently, and if you have not yet had a chance to read it, you can find it here. I shared a lot of Clark’s sentiments but still had a few of my own thoughts I wanted to post in this…
Read MoreOver the last few months we have seen developers and publishers really clue in to the marketing value of companion applications. What’s a companion app? One that is released onto the iOS or Android stores to coincide with the release of a major console game. Last year around the time…
Read MoreThe ‘sandbox survival adventure game’ from Reverb and HandyMan Studios is on the way to PC soon. How about a peek at the ‘box art’ and some new screens while you wait? Edge of Space is an open-world, dynamically-generated sandbox survival-adventure game set in deep space where humans were ever…
Read MoreNintendo loves its fans. Maybe that’s why it’s having a Nintendo Direct presentation on Valentine’s Day. Or maybe they just want to talk 3DS and Wii U games. There isn’t much of a description for this one, but Nintendo has indeed scheduled a Nintendo Direct for tomorrow morning. What’s on…
Read MoreProject lead for Paradox, Thomas Johansson, talks up how the forthcoming Europa Universalis IV will change your approach to technology in the classic strategy series.EUIV places a much higher emphasis on player choice and brings a big change to the way the game is played when it comes to higher tech levels…
Read MoreFor all the negativity surrounding the Wii U there is also lot of praise for the console. It just doesn’t make as much noise within the industry as it probably should. Recently, Codemasters’ Senior Executive Producer Clive Moody stated: “I think it [Wii U] is the future,” when talking to…
Read MoreFind puzzle/platformer Rochard a little too easy? Well get ready, Hard Times are on the way. Hard Times is the new DLC for Rochard and it seriously cranks the difficulty on a quartet of new maps designed to drive you up a wall, uh, I mean challenge you. Titled ‘Hard…
Read MoreI really enjoyed Elminage for the PSP, despite some localization troubles. It was a good, old fashioned RPG dungeon crawl that got more right than wrong. Starfish is publishing a follow-up, Elminage Gothic: 3D Remix for the Nintendo 3DS. Currently it is slated for a spring release in 2013 over…
Read MorePS3 using Elder Scrolls: Skyrim fans can finally get Dragonborn as the expansion pack is now on the PSN in North America. And since you had to wait so long for it, Bethesda went ahead and put it on sale. Any excuse to go back to any part of the…
Read MoreCompile Heart’s Hyperdimension Neptunia series is quite possibly the most otaku of JRPGs that actually gets localised (bless NISA for that). Being rather creepy makes the games quite niche, but there’s a dedicated fanbase for the games who find them quite amusing. With Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory coming soon, NISA has…
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