List by Matt S. It’s Australia Day, everyone! Controversial as the day is (do we really have to have to celebrate Australia as a nation on the same day that marked the invasion of Aboriginal land?) it is nonetheless a day to celebrate the country, and everything that makes is…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Remasters are a trend that one expects will last into perpetuity. For the consumer, they give them another chance to play through their favourite games, perhaps with better graphics or additional content. For the developer and publisher, it’s an additional opportunity to take earn some additional…
Read MoreList by Matt S. So, there we have it. Now the Nintendo Switch has been unveiled in full. We’ve got a release date, prices, the launch games, the works. You can catch a summary of the announcements here. Now it’s time to sit and think through what we saw on…
Read MoreList 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. Look, this week has been hell for a lot of us, so let’s not even pretend that this week’s list is anything other than a bit of fun to try and relieve some of the stress. We all love Miku, and she makes us all happy,…
Read MoreList by Matt S. It’s Halloween time! Depending on where you live in the world that can mean anything from Trick ‘n Treating to getting dressed up in crazy costumes and going to boozy parties. Or you could just stay at home and play horror games. That’s what we’re doing.…
Read MoreList by Matt S. There are people that don’t consider visual novels to be games, and therefore are not worth talking about or playing. Those people are a little silly, because regardless of whether you consider visual novels to be a game, or something else entirely, a good one is…
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