Review by Harvard L. I just finished playing Particulars. My head hurts. Particulars is a sub-atomic particle physics themed action-puzzle game. Developed by Aussie indie outfit SeeThrough Studios and partially funded by ScreenNSW, Particulars combines traditional puzzle gameplay with a plot-driven structure and a firm grounding in real world scientific…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I want to get this out of the way immediately: I am very disappointed that so little was done between the beta of Screencheat and the final version. When game breaking bugs happen in a beta it’s easy to forgive them. It’s equally easy to ignore…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. For most of my clueless life, I’ve been swarmed by propaganda claiming that “bigger is better”: A bigger truck makes for bigger manpower (not horsepower), a bigger house makes for and reflects bigger social clout, and a bigger foot means, well, a bigger imprint on your…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. And people say that Australia’s games industry lacks for quality and depth. Pfft. The Game Developers’ Association of Australia (GDAA) has announced the finalists for its 2014 Australian Game Developer Awards (AGDA). And the list is spectacular. Of course, Australia’s industry remains small following the big…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. When Nintendo revealed the New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL in late August, the Japanese launch date reared its head just as hastily. Nintendo’s European and American branches have been comparatively shy about sharing the planned launch of the new systems, though, offering little…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Cubemen 2 is one of the finest examples of the tower defence genre. Previously released on iOS and PC, it’s developed into something massive over the months and years courtesy of community-created levels, and now on the Wii U players access all that content in the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. For so many years now Studio Ghibli has delighting audiences. With Hayao Miyazaki now retired, Madman Entertainment, in collaboration with various independent cinemas around Australia has collaborated for a veritable festival of the genius of Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. The Tale of Studio Ghibli promises to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of my favourite tower defence games of all time is Cubemen 2. Players create little… cube men, and then set them around a grid-like environment to protect their flag from invading hordes of enemy cube men. But that’s just one mode. There are actually seven…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Who remembers Goldeneye? Everyone who was playing games when the Nintendo 64 was the big Nintendo console does, I assume. And as good as the game’s single player mode was it was truly something special for its split screen multiplayer. How I remember having night after…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It seems that after the success that Telltale Games has had with episodic games, other developers have been inspired to mirror the release style. One such developer is Australia’s own Epiphany Games, which has announced a six-part episodic role-playing thriller. This is set in an alternate…
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