Review by Matt S. Why do I love Might & Magic X so much? Let me count the ways! 1) It’s an old-school style RPG Might & Magic X is a turn based game where players move around an environment laid out like a grid, one step at a time.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is a highly anticipated game. After the previous game finally broke the curse that said “3D Castlevania games can’t be fun,” the sequel to Lords of Shadow is going to have a lot to live up to. We don’t expect the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I was tentatively interested when I heard that Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was under development. Warner Bros hasn’t done the best job with the franchise, but coming off the highs of the Batman franchise, I had hoped that it would have worked out how to do…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Ubisoft released Might & Magic X today; a game that it has billed as an old-school RPG to appeal to people who still remember loading up games through DOS. I’ve only spent around four hours in the game so far, which is a scratch on the…
Read MoreToday 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,…
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