Video by Matt S. Any week where there’s new Dead or Alive stuff to play is a good week, and this is a *very* good week, with two all-new characters to play with: Kula and Mai from the King of Fighters series. Related reading: Read my review of the base…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. SEGA and Creative Assembly have pulled off something truly remarkable. Total War: Three Kingdoms has become the most successful title in the Total War series, and a massive hit for what remains an incredibly niche genre. With over 150,000 concurrent players at once at a point,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo’s JRPG house, Gust, has teased its next project, with a 35-second trailer that tells us almost nothing about the game, except for a bit of text at the end that says “our adventure is about to begin”. But the trailer shows an absolutely gorgeous…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. So we’ve got yet another Atelier game – two in the first half of 2019 is crazy. But I’m not complaining. Atelier is my favourite series, bar none, and Lulua is the most perfect example of why I love it so much. In this video I…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Atelier is pure comfort. Gust releases new titles in this series at a truly astounding rate, and Atelier Lulua is actually the second to land in the first half of 2019 alone. It doesn’t matter how frequently these things get churned out though, because they always…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The newest DLC for Dead or Alive 6 has landed. This time around, it’s pirate costumes for the characters! From the amusing, to the short skirted, to the downright sexy, there’s a whole lot of amusing new costumes to add yet more value to the game.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo is well known for taking its Dynasty Warriors “Musou” formula and applying it to all kinds of licensed properties. In just the last couple of years we’ve had Warriors games in the Hyrule, Fire Emblem, Berserk, Arslan, One Piece and Dragon Quest properties. Now…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. After getting back from Japan last week, of course the first thing I did was get stuck into the DLC for Dead or Alive 6, which I had missed at launch while overseas. So yeah, this video’s a little old in terms of the “news” side…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. To celebrate 25 years of Atelier, the teams at Gust and Koei Tecmo decided to do something very different with Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists, and eschew the series traditional JRPG structure and design for a light-hearted city building simulation instead. Talk about a dramatic change!…
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With all due respect to the PlayStation Vita (and as everyone who knows me knows, I have a lot of respect for the PlayStation Vita), when it came to rendering “realistic” people, the console hit its limits. When it came to abstract visuals, such as games like Oreshika, the PlayStation…
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