News by Jedediah H. If you’re in any way aware of the melodious fire storm that is Hatsune Miku, punch my words in the face, rapidly but softly pat your kitten or dog on her lower back, open a new tab on whatever brilliant device you’re currently utilising to browse…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Mortal Kombat is the kind of series that will never go away. Not while its less-than-subtle satire of the bloodlust of the games industry continues to be relevant. And with games becoming ever more violent, I can’t see that relevance waning any time soon. Anyhow, I…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Toy Soldiers, Ubisoft’s action/ tower defence series, will land on PlayStation consoles for the first time with the upcoming next-gen release of Toy Soldiers: War Chest. The game, which will also be available on Windows PC and Xbox One early next year, has been developed by…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Specialist publisher, NISA, has today announced that it has picked up three niche Japanese games to release in the west – two fighting games and one visual novel. The fighting games are Arcana Hearts 3: Love Max!!!! (PlayStation 3 and Vita, 2014 release) and Under Night…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The more I see of Natural Doctrine, NISA and Kadokawa Games’ upcoming turn-based tactics game, the more I can’t wait to play it when it releases in September. NISA has released a new trailer in which we see the game’s multiplayer mode in action. Players collect…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. What has been rumoured for a while has now been confirmed: Ubisoft will release a new Assassin’s Creed game specifically for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, since fans that haven’t upgraded to the next gen hardware yet won’t get to play Unity. Assassin’s Creed: Rogue…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. 2K Games is the publisher that gets premium mobile. It simply understands that there are people that want to play serious, deep, rich games on mobile without being overloaded by microtransactions and the like. Not long ago it released XCOM: Enemy Unknown on to iPad. A…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Nintendo’s former Head of Digital Content and Development, Dan Adelman, who spent 9 years advocating – identifying and releasing indie games like BIT.TRIP to major consoles long before doing so was a fashionable industry practice – on behalf of independent developers, has left Nintendo, and plans…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In what should be a textbook case for why websites should refrain from copy/ pasting news from other websites without verifying the information first, the reports of Studio Ghibli’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The “announcement” that the famed animation studio behind Totoro, Mononoke and Spirited…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Onechanbara is a franchise where women clad in the most impractical bikinis you could imagine (just because they can, apparently) run around killing monsters. As you can probably imagine given how singularly grindhouse and exploitative the premise sounds, the Onechanbara games haven’t exactly been of the…
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