Review: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (3DS)

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The majority of the adventure genre is fittingly moulded around exploration. The most common approach to “exploring” in retro gaming was to utilise trial and error puzzles with ambiguous solutions rather than teach the player intuitively so that the length of the experience could be drawn out. The former approach…

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Project X Zone demo impressions; character mash-ups are getting ever more impressive

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Last week a demo popped on to the 3DS eShop download store for Project X Zone. Useless name aside, this is a game worth paying attention to because it perfectly demonstrates the value of the clever application of characters in building a compelling game experience. We’ve seen character crossovers before…

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Multiplayer is killing the horror genre

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Some interesting behind-the-scenes news regarding the development of ZombiU emerged recently. According to a story on VG24/7, co-operative play had initially been planned for the Wii U’s breakaway third party exclusive. In the story ZombiU producer, Guillaume Brunier, said “we did [consider co-op play], but we ruled it out quickly…

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