Article by Harvard L. If you’re a fan of RPGs, you probably enjoy a fair bit of repetition. Hopefully, that’s not a controversial statement, but if you’re inclined to disagree, I have a simple experiment for you. Load up a copy of Dragon Quest (the original) and start a new…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. One of the best thing about itch.io is that it provides an outlet for the most creative, alternative projects… and producing Game Boy games in 2020 certainly qualifies as that. Make the game and there’s a wealth of distribution opportunities available to you – emulators on…
Read MoreSMASH! 2018 cemented the event as the best in Australia for fans of Japanese entertainment and games
Event report by Matt S. Over the weekend, Sydney played host to the annual SMASH! convention; Australia’s own show focused almost entirely on Asian entertainment and culture. Where the likes of Supernova is generalist in nature (as much about Batman and Iron Man as it is about anime or Persona),…
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Article by Matt S. I’ve finally got around to playing the first installment of Summer Lesson, which was given English subtitles for a release in the English-speaking Asian market. So if you can access the Hong Kong PlayStation Network (thank the mercies for region-free) you can play it on any…
Read MoreArticle by Nick Hu. The centrepiece of DONTNOD’s 2015 masterpiece Life is Strange was not the power of temporal manipulation that bestowed the mastery of fate on peacekeeper, crowd pleaser, and wallflower Max Caulfield, but the relationship between Max and her childhood BFF Chloe Price. The test of its position…
Read MoreArticle by Farida Y. Something less than a home console yet more than a portable, the Nintendo Switch doesn’t bring to mind any vivid images of a “best use case.” The console is unprecedented in its potential, by virtue of design, to intersect the markets for dedicated game systems and…
Read MoreArticle by Lindsay M. Try to think of your top five video games of all time. Now count the number of them that specifically feature a female-identified protagonist; I bet the number is somewhere between 0 and 1. Heck, I’m a woman and I find myself in the same situation.…
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For Christmas this year, I was given a copy of a board game based on the classic collection of fantasy short stories; The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. Which is timely, because I am in the process of re-reading that book, having read it last when I was a…
Read MoreAfter reviewing the first episode of Life is Strange, I’ve decided not to write another formal review of the episodic series until it’s complete. There’s very little new I can say about the game’s qualities until I’ve seen how the narrative threads come together (try reviewing each chapter of a…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Every time that I take a trip to Japan, my purchases end up following a theme, based on whatever I’m most interested in (as souveneirs) at the time. The first time I visited it was video games and I ended bringing back a pile of Nintendo…
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