List by Matt S. Next week the first major game of the year is released; Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone! Some of us already have the game from its Japanese release last year, but for those who didn’t want to go through the effort of setting up a Japanese…
Read MoreList by Matt S. It’s the last Friday Ten of the year! Don’t worry, we’re still around to the end of next week, but with Christmas coming next weekend we’ll be having a couple of well-earned days off this time next week. Otherwise we’ll go insane, and you don’t want…
Read MoreList by Matt S. The Final Fantasy series has regularly offered some of the deepest thematic explorations of any videogames out there. Everything from morality to mortality, fate to culture has been dissected and discussed through the games, and yet, come release date, so often we only end up with…
Read MoreList by Matt S. I don’t see many people talking about the PlayStation 4 as one of the best JRPG machines ever created. That might change with the double whammy of Final Fantasy XV and Persona 5 coming over the next few months, but for now if you were to…
Read MoreList by Matt S. The original PlayStation was first released in Europe 21 years ago this week. What a wild west of a console it was too. The first gaming platform that made 3D graphics native and the default, the PlayStation 1 heralded an era of genuine innovation in game…
Read MoreList by Matt S. The latest Hatsune Miku game (in English) is just around the corner, and of course that’s cause to get genuinely excited. Miku’s games have a habit of combining a wonderful music track list with those endlessly endearing characters and superb art direction to make for something…
Read MoreList by Matt S. As I noted earlier this week, for some reason there are an awful lot of sports games that never quite get the attention that they deserve from game developers. While one developer after the next is happy to rollout football or baseball games, when was the…
Read MoreList by Clark A. Nintendo launched amiibo, its answer to the booming toys-to-life market, less than two years ago. What began as a sparse river of 12 figures has rapidly widened into an ocean of eternal plastic success. Now with over 100 miniatures and support for dozens of games, the…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Since picking up Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone a couple of weeks ago, it’s been very difficult to actually tear myself away from the game to do anything else. It’s mammoth in size, with 220 different music tracks, and the standard Project Diva difficulty means…
Read MoreList by Matt S. We’ve seen a lot of PlayStation 3 remasters already, and yet there are indeed many more games that we’d like to see packaged up for a PlayStation 4 re-release. So this week we’ve come up with a ridiculously simple Friday Ten – the ten PlayStation 3…
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