What is up with indie game developers and their love affair with notoriously difficult games? There’s Super Meat Boy, that makes all the veins on my forehead pop out, Braid, a mind-bending, time-twisting that confuses as it entertains, Fez, where some of the puzzles are surely impossible, and now we…
Read MorePaperbound is such an odd game to review, I have honestly never played anything with such a weird combination of gameplay styles mixed together. I can’t honestly say it’s like Smash Bros., yet it is a fighter where the combatants are a who’s who of different franchises, and I can’t…
Read MoreThe release of Mortal Kombat X is just around the corner, and Warner Bros. is blitzing us all with weekly trailers. This week we’ve got one that shows off one of the newcomers, Kung Jin. You’ll also see Kung Lao and Liu Kang doing their thing, and plenty of bone-breaking…
Read MoreKoei Tecmo’s latest batch of DLC costumes for its endless cash-cow, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, have landed. This bunch are a result of a collaboration with the folk behind Senran Kagura, and they’re perhaps the most interesting costumes yet. As the above paragraph no doubt suggests, these costumes…
Read MoreWhether you are a fan of the spiky-haired, yelling combatants of the Dragon Ball universe or not, you would have to realise that the staying power of the series over the years has been impressive. Dragon Ball Xenoverse marks the first foray for the series onto the newest generation of…
Read MoreUnder Night In-Birth Exe:Late hurts my hands to play, and I’m not entirely sure it’s worth it. The latest 2D brawler from French Bread and Arc System Works is fast, furious, and complex to a fault, and whether that is a good thing depends greatly on just how many of…
Read MoreIf you’re familiar with HAL Laboratory, you’ll know exactly what to expect when starting up one of its games. The long running studio has always been about unabashed fun and joy, and there’s no better mascot for HAL’s ethos than Kirby. He’s a pink puffball with no real defining features…
Read MoreDead or Alive 5 has been a complete commercial success for Koei Tecmo. And, among those critics that can look past its hyper-sexualisation, it has also been regarded well as the edition in the series that took the franchise and injected it with enough depth that it works both as…
Read MoreMortal Kombat X (which somehow got past the Australian Classification Board so we even get to play it) is promising a whole load of content to go with the gore. Not least of which is a factions mode, which this new trailer outlines. Related reading: Our full review of the…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Ahead of the game’s official release in a few weeks, I had the opportunity to set down and really put Dead or Alive 5: Last Round through its paces, including testing the newest character, Honoka, in full. I came away even more excited for the game…
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