Review by Sam M. Killzone: Shadow Fall was one of the two exclusives available on the PlayStation 4 at launch (the other being the rather terrible Knack), and as a competent shooter, it has remained high on the PS4 playlist for many since. The The Insurgent Pack DLC pack adds…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. When a fighting game gets a new DLC character, it’s a big deal; will the character unbalance the competitive side of the game? How does the character fit in with the existing cast? Is the character different enough to offer hardcore fans of the game something…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Here’s a bit of news I missed earlier in the week: Tecmo Koei is running a “dress a character in your dream costume” contest for Dead or Alive 5: Ultimate. It will be showcasing the best costumes via social media, and if any of them really…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. This isn’t going to be a full-length review, since it is just a single pinball table DLC for Zen Pinball 2. But I did feel like it was worth running a brief review on it, because of the many (many) tables available through Zen Pinball 2,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Way back when we interviewed Yosuke Hayashi, the director of Team Ninja’s titles including Dead or Alive 5, we asked him if there was ever a chance of a new Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball title. He didn’t think there would be much of a demand…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We love Zen Pinball. We love soccer (you’d call it football in other places in the world, but I’m Aussie so it’s soccer, OK?). So Zen Studio’s announcement that it’s combining the two is… well, weird, but wonderful. This new DLC release allows fans of Arsenal,…
Read MoreBecause Tecmo Koei knows they’re going to sell, they’ve gone and done a massive DLC release: one free spoooooooky stage and one new costume for each character to celebrate Halloween. If you think of this like a Halloween costume party for college students, it all starts to make sense. It…
Read MoreAn interesting little story over at Polygon hints as a possible future for the fighting game genre – the Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate game, due for release later this year, will release in Japan with a free-to-play option. The free-to-play version will come with four characters and all of…
Read MoreThe eternal depths of the zombie hell must have just frozen over – Capcom and Valve have teamed up to bring crossover DLC between Resident Evil 6 and Left 4 Dead 2. Yes, you did just read that. On April 5, Resident Evil 6 PC owners will find that several…
Read MoreThe games industry’s newest controversy: EA said that it has big plans for its games to all feature microtransations. The response to that announcement is of course predictable; a panic about games becoming pay-to-win, gloating over statistics that suggest that Dead Space 3 – the first game to adopt this…
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