Opinion by Matt S. When the news broke that Hotline Miami 2 was to be banned from sale in Australia, I naturally assumed that there would be a general outcry in condemnation by the gaming community. After all, it was the very definition of censorship, and as offensive as the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s always good to know that the Australian Classification Board is out there protecting us from things that no human being would ever want to see. Like a knight in shining armour, the Board is out there shielding us from the evils of nasty game developers…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. And there we go. The first of Nintendo’s regular web news shows, the Nintendo Direct, is over. We got to see some games in action for both the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U, and now we have a better idea of what the company has…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Nintendo is hosting its first Nintendo Direct web video of the year, at 1am on Thursday the 15th (for Australians, your time will be different depending on your region). Outside of a vague mention that it will focus on autumn 2015 Wii U and 3DS releases…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. The roguelike is one of my favourite RPG sub-genres. From the early days when as a school kid I discovered the free Nethack, right though to my time as a university student when it was all I could afford to play, the classic roguelike was something…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Frankly, of all the insane things that have happened in the games industry this year, the response to the following non-event takes the cake: two Australian department stores, Target and Kmart, have decided to stop selling GTA V following complaints from customers. Boom. Over the last…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I think we all knew this would happen. Bayonetta 2, Nintendo’s big “adult” Wii U game release for the year, has become an instant source of controversy for its themes. Polygon’s review exemplifies this controversy best, with the critic broadly panning its approach to gender, and…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Every time that I take a trip to Japan, my purchases end up following a theme, based on whatever I’m most interested in (as souveneirs) at the time. The first time I visited it was video games and I ended bringing back a pile of Nintendo…
Read MoreFeature by Matt S. There are many people that scoff at anyone suggesting that the Warriors games are historically accurate. After all, whether it’s Samurai Warriors, Dynasty Warriors, or one of the smaller Koei Tecmo franchises (Warriors: Legends of Troy or pseudo-Warriors title, Bladestorm, for instance), we’re talking about games…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. With the rise of PAX and Germany’s Gamescom, each of which now comes with big announcements from the likes of Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA and Activision (and of course the continued popularity of E3), many western media publishers have been left wondering what is happening with…
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