You know you’re in for a big month when the very first game is a compilation of 30 games that people would still happily purchase individually. Rare Replay will set up what will be one of the most vibrant and exciting months of game releases to date. There are two…
Read MoreDragon Quest Heroes is surely one of our most anticipated games at Digitally Downloaded. Half Dragon Quest, half Warriors game, it promises to be much like Hyrule Warriors on the Nintendo Wii U: a truly entertaining bit of fan service for existing fans of the venerable series. Luckily for us…
Read MoreJourney was the indie darling through the last generation of consoles. A simple, emotional experience, it was a combination of graceful, elegant minimalism through its aesthetics, music, and gameplay that made for a accessible, but thematically deep and sincere adventure that anyone, regardless of experience or even interest in games,…
Read MoreA new vocaloid game has been released in Japan. And the way that IA/VT Colorful is being promoted by its publisher (Marvelous) makes it clear that it has its sights set on the green-haired queen of digital music herself (Hatsune Miku, I mean, but you already knew that).As the description…
Read MoreIt’s the news that is making the gaming world ecstatic: Koei Tecmo is making a game based on The Heroic Legend of Arslan. Yes, the story you’re already familiar with is being combined with Koei Tecmo’s infamous Warriors series for Arslan: the Warriors of Legend. Time for our unofficial phrase…
Read MoreGolf is a sport that is more difficult to adapt to a videogame than it sounds on paper. After all, it’s a ridiculously sedate sport in real life, with walking between shots being about the closest it comes to action, and games tend to cut the walking bit out of…
Read MoreIt may be later than expected (unless you considering August “early in the year” as we had originally been promised) but Toy Soldiers: War Chest is coming, and soon! Ubisoft has announced that the third game in the popular series is coming to Xbox One and PC on August 11,…
Read MoreHow the Abbott government and Australia’s games industry is turning into a case of history repeating
Over at Crikey (one of Australia’s premier independent news outlets), I’ve penned a piece looking at some of the recent political events around the arts, and why Abbott’s government’s handling of the games industry is eerily similar to what happened to the film industry in the early years of that…
Read MoreEveryone has painful memories that they wish they could forget. Life isn’t always pretty and we all have our ups just as we have our downs. Making it through these events is entirely up to us. Some of us ask for help. Others try to make it through on our…
Read MoreHi everyone! This is just a quick note to let you all know that over on Gamasutra’s blog section, there’s one of the many interviews from my upcoming book, Game Art, for your reading enjoyment. The interview is with Alex Norton, an Australian game developer who created the procedural masterpiece…
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