Today in the Wrap GOG.com scores big for charity, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z goes live as a digital-only comic, Etherium actually looks to do something different with the RTS genre and goblins are fashionable again in Styx: Master of Shadows. GOG.com charity drive takes in $1.9 million Did you pick…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, we have launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With that…
Read MoreOpinion by Jim S. Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Courtesy of Ghostlight, Compile Heart’s weird and wonderful strategy RPG, Agarest: Generations of War Zero, is headed to a PC near you. Staring a fellow called Sieghart and as befits a Compile Heart game, plenty of women, players can expect around 80 hours of hardcore, turn-based…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the most underrated kart racing games in some time is F1 Race Stars. Taking the quite serious sport of F1 and turning it into a fun party game, while still maintaining something that resembles the real sport couldn’t possibly have been easy, and yet…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Paradox has some very big plans indeed, which it has revealed at its own convention, underway right now. After a 2013 that included the release of Europa Universalis IV, I honestly wasn’t sure if the company could offer anything to top that in 2014… but, well,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Idea Factory excited fans when it revealed that it was indeed localising ultra-niche card battler Monster Monpiece for the west. Then Idea Factory annoyed fans by admitting that it was doing a bit of self censorship, with a fair portion of the Japanese game’s art being…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. We’ve got another big developer announcement to make for The Interactive Canvas (you can back it on Kickstarter here). A couple of the artists from popular independent Polish developer, Techland, will be participating in the book for an interview on the topic of “illustrating horror.” Techland…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. I am a long standing fan of the Double Dragon series. How far back do I go with the series? I remember dropping many quarters into the arcade machine. The introduction and end fight music are still among my absolute favourite in all of video games.…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s nothing new that games and sex have been a controversial mix when it comes to the games industry. From the earliest days of Leisure Suit Larry, the mere suggestion of sexual activity within a game has been enough to court the ire of both the…
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