Article by Matt S. The roguelike is one of my favourite RPG sub-genres. From the early days when as a school kid I discovered the free Nethack, right though to my time as a university student when it was all I could afford to play, the classic roguelike was something…
Read MorePreview by Shaan J. The video game industry, and the people involved with it, is slowly moving in a direction that I can more easily relate to. Sure, we still have our problems (last year was riddled with controversies, scandals, and more broken games than needed), but it’s hard to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Here’s a nice bit of news for fans of retro games – around 2,400 classic DOS games are available to play for free via your browsers. This is courtesy of the Internet Archive – a great organisation dedicated to preserving the history of digital media. The…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Battle Miner is a truly appalling piece of work. I appreciate that the Nintendo platforms don’t have a version of Minecraft on them yet, and I do understand that Nintendo fans want a version of Minecraft on their preferred console. In that context I understand why…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Bayonetta 2 was one of the best games released last year. And by Wii U standards it was a commercial and critical hit, landing both our Nintendo Wii U game of the year award and a highly commended for the overall game of the year award,…
Read MoreReport by Matt S. The Australian games industry can look forward to a positive 2015, with the increased adoption of the new generation of consoles, the cheaper lower value of the Australian dollar and the growing power of digital distribution all compensating for the complete absence of any interest from…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I think Ubisoft has done everything it can to accurately encapsulate Monopoly in digital form. Since picking up the license from EA earlier in the year Ubisoft has taken the opportunity to kickstart the new partnership with Hasbro by releasing a very down-the-line take on the…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Last year one free-to-play game really impressed us – SEGA’s Chain Chronicle, which was localised for the market by gumi Asia, a Singapore-based developer, localiser, and publisher. A massive hit in Japan, I was keen to see how gumi Asia sees that English-speaking Asian and western…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Designed by a team of animators with experience at the almighty Pixar, Flyhunter is the story of Zak, a janitor on a spaceship, that gets himself in a heap of trouble; he gets bored and accidentally releases the spaceship’s valuable cargo… and its captain. Someone should…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The first volume of 20th Century Boys was a well-crafted opening chapter to a manga that was clearly going to need more time to develop. Back when I reviewed that volume I suggested that we’d have a better idea of whether it would be compelling over…
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