News by Matt S. Are you still playing Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn? We hope so, because it’s going from strength to strength, and there’s a new patch due soon that will add even more content into the game. Before The Fall (as the patch is being dubbed) will…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Pix the Cat is a funky little game that was released on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita and was something of a mild hit (thanks in no small part because it was a PSPlus “freebie”). Also, it has duckies. And duckies are awesome. Now this…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Last year I embarked on a epic quest to write a book about games as works of art. Originally I gave Kickstarter a go to try and raise the funds to self-publish the book, but then the good folks at No Starch Press offered to publish…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Mid-tier developer, Zombie Studios, has announced that it has shut its doors. But not for the reasons that we’ve seen so many developers close down in recent years. Zombie Studios is no more simply because the owners are retiring. This is good news for people looking…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Idea Factory has blown its Hyperdimension Neptunia faithful a kiss in the form of a release date for its first strategy RPG, Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart, exclusive to the PlayStation Vita – in North America, it’ll be available February 24th via digital and physical distribution;…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Here’s a nice bit of news for fans of retro games – around 2,400 classic DOS games are available to play for free via your browsers. This is courtesy of the Internet Archive – a great organisation dedicated to preserving the history of digital media. The…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Some good news for people that don’t have a PlayStation Vita or 3, and want to experience some of the oddest and most creative JRPGs that we’ve seen produced in recent years; Idea Factory is porting three of its games to Steam in 2015. Hyperdimension Neptunia…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Greetings, detective. Futuristic Tokyo’s in a bit of a snafu: genetically engineered monsters known as Variants threaten the city. If that weren’t enough of a cluster bomb, portals that lead to a strange dimension called the Abyss are emerging in the most inconvenient of locations. So…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance, the sixth home console entry to the series that did for grinding as old-school Raiden did for naked cartwheels (he made them cool again, right?), is coming to show us the nuances of vengeance in fall of 2015, exclusively for the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In a depressing reminder that squeezing margins and escalating budgets are killing mid-tier developers and publishers, bitComposer Entertainment has announced that it has gone insolvent and needs to find some investors. Quickly. The developer, started in 2009 behind such titles as Jagged Alliance and Stalker and…
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