Review by Nick H. The Forza series has always been an agreeable racing franchise for me, despite the fact I myself am not always particularly good at racing titles. I tend to lean towards racing games that focus more on comic mischief (think: Mario Kart), but the Forza racing series…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Most people in developed cultures don’t acknowledge death as a prospect. The thought of one day losing our existence, our accidental privilege to experience worldly occurrences through our tailored perspective, terrifies the optimism right out of our trembling vertebrae. And because of this fear, we avoid…
Read MoreReview by Rob P. January, 2107. We are the ecologists of the Terra Salvum. Escaping the confines of a dying Earth, we have journeyed to Pandora to give Mankind a fresh start. Here is a new planet, rich with opportunity. A chance to avoid the mistakes of the past. This…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Sega’s free-to-play JRPG/card game hybrid, Chain Chronicle, has been going strong for a solid year in Japan on both iOS and Android. As of late June, the game racked up somewhere in the ballpark of a whopping $72 million USD for its miscellaneous purchasable content. The…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I’ve been playing games for many, many years now, and as much as I love the advances of game development that have given me everything from Skyrim to the Atelier franchise, from Dragon Age to Nier and Drakengard, I can’t help but feel nostalgic for a…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Some people have described Amazing Princess Sarah as Metroidvania in style, but really there is almost not Metroid – just plenty of ‘vania’. In terms of the style both visually and how the game plays, this is one of the better Castlevania-inspired titles I have had…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Until the release of Dynasty Warriors 8, Warriors Orochi 3 was my all-around favourite Warriors title. Because of the 120+ characters, which included my BFF Ryu Hayabusa, and a story free from the restraints of the Three Kingdoms’ narrative that allowed said characters from the Dynasty…
Read MoreNews by Shaan J. Plenty of video games have managed to jump to another medium; games are occasionally adapted into movies, and less commonly TV shows. And occasionally, video games make it onto the big stage (I personally will always regret missing out on the Ace Attorney musical). The Last of…
Read MoreReview by Andrew M. ASUS is one of the world’s largest computer makers but quite often you’ll have more of a discussion about how to say the name of the company’s name rather than talk about each of its individual products (A-Seuss – as in Dr Seuss – for those…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The FIFA World Cup might be over (congrats to Germany, by the way), but soccer/ football fans won’t have to wait long, for the newest instalment of the FIFA franchise is just around the corner, and it’s looking good indeed. People often accuse this series of…
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