Opinion by Matt S. I am playing an Earth Defence Force game for the first time with Earth Defence Force 4.1 on the PlayStation 4. Yes, I know I probably should have played one of these games sooner because, yes, they fall right smack bang into the category of ‘games…
Read MoreInterview by Harvard L. In Nude Maker’s latest game, NightCry, audiences are thrust into the clutches of a demonic scissor-wielding murderer. As a spiritual successor to the long running Clock Tower series, NightCry inhabits a unique place in the horror gaming canon as both a third person game and one…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Nick H. The Ninja Turtles have been popping up a great deal lately. My oldest daughter recently discovered the Nickelodeon animated show. My youngest (for some reason) thinks the most recent movie is pretty entertaining. There is a new game courtesy of Activision and Platinum based on…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt C. In the ongoing push for more open, player-driven game stories, we’re seeing more and more focus on “meaningful choices” – or, more often than not, criticism of games for presenting choices that aren’t “meaningful”. This is something I see frequently, especially in response to games like…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. I’m about 100 turns in when I realise something is going very wrong with my little galactic empire. My rate of production was slowing down. I was spending a lot of my time chasing space pirates around, and they were taking advantage of my disorganisation and…
Read MoreGame theory by Matt S. “If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. To date we’ve seen a lot of these ‘walking simulators’ focus in on a narrative experience. From Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture through Layers of Fear, Dear Esther and Gone Home, the primary goal of the developer has typically been to pass a specific story on…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Nick H. While strategy games have been around for about as long as games have, one title stands out to me as the first I played on that was a strategy/role-playing hybrid. When Shining Force released on the SEGA Genesis back in 1993 in North America, the…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S (premium article). I almost wish the Souls series never happened. I say “almost” because I am a massive fan of those series and I am ultimately glad that they exist, but it’s a bitter sweet relationship that I have with the series, because the Souls series…
Read MoreFeature by Matt S. (premium article) If you were to think of Square Enix’s classic JRPG franchises, you’re likely going to think of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. If you cast your thoughts beyond the JRPG genre, you’re probably going to think of the likes of Tomb Raider and Deus…
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