If you haven’t seen the original Ong Bak film yet, then do yourself a favour and head over to your local video store’s foreign film section. This Thailand martial arts epic stars Tony Jaa, and it’s the kind of no-wires, no stunt-double action work that is so rarely seen in…
Read MoreMUD – FIM Motocross World Championship (MUD) is the most comprehensive videogame rendition of the sport that’s ever been delivered to its fans. All three of the official circuits (MX1, MX2 and MXoN) are featured here, with each competition offering not only its authentic rosters, but impressively, its tracks as…
Read MoreThe games industry’s own Tarantino, Goichi Suda, is back to the kind of start art style that made is breakout masterpiece, Killer 7, such a memorable title. Killer Is Dead is, as the name suggests, thematically related to Killer 7, and this trailer has me all kinds of excited: Of…
Read MoreThunder Wolves is a helicopter action game that looks like a more arcade-y version of the classic Strike series. The game is on the way from bitComposer Games and Most Wanted Entertainment and puts players in the seat of a high-tech chopper under the command of a shadowy organization. In…
Read More11 bit studios has officially announced that Anomaly 2 is on the way for both PC and Mac. Check out the table-turning trailer after the jump. Anomaly 2 reverses things a bit as it casts the human race as the ‘anomaly’ on Earth now that the war of 2018 is…
Read MoreThe attacks are as over-the-top as always, but carry a lot more charm in this version Naruto is a series that generally tries and succeeds to find a balance between serious and silly, depending on the characters and topics. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 was one of my favorite…
Read MoreIf you’re on the hunt for some cheap games for your consoles, Play-Asia rotates around weekly specials, and there are often some really great bargains to be picked up. So what’s on for this week? Huge action this week. Whether it’s running through deep dungeons, running-and-gunning, or hacking through legions…
Read MoreOf all the JRPGs that I have played in this generation, the Atelier games by the tiny development outfit, GUST, have been the ones that I have enjoyed the most. I realise that they’re not awe-inspiring works of art, deep-and-meaningful philosophical treatises into the meaning of life and other questions…
Read MoreA post-apocalyptic kart racer? Yeah, why not… I was expecting a lot of things from PolarBit’s Cracking Sands the first time I fired it up on my iPad. Knowing nothing about the game other than that it was a combat racing title, I had of course certain thoughts right off…
Read MoreThe Atelier series is popular with a few of us, including one editor in particular (we’re looking at you Matt). I suspect then, that he will be even more excited than I was to see the ton of screenshots and trailer for Atelier Meruru Plus. Scheduled to release in Japan…
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