For console gamers, the term “war” probably brings up a lot of memories, both embarrassing and poignant. Between the time your best friend ruined your 40 kill-streak by lobbing a knife at your crotch and tea-bagging your demoralized avatar in Call of Duty, and the time you murdered a crazed…
Read MoreThanks to my kind friends on Twitter for pointing this out. When I woke this morning the first thing I saw was this: Oh boy. Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh…
Read MoreAs I commented in my hands-on preview of Until Dawn a couple of weeks ago, it genuinely surprises me that game developers so rarely tackle the teen slasher horror genre as a subject. We all know the industry’s love of zombies, but as fun as that horror can be, there’s…
Read MoreOn the one hand I’m always up for a new Yu-Gi-Oh! game. On a fundamental level it’s a very complex, but very high quality, collectible card game (CCG), and short of making a video game version of Weiss Schwarz (a CCG game that features both Risette from Persona 4 and…
Read MoreI really wanted to like AeternoBlade. It’s the kind of game that I want to champion, because it comes from a young development team (Corecell Technologies) from a young game development market (Thailand). And because of that it represents a diversifying game development industry, where creative people from all over…
Read MoreMere weeks ago, Koei Tecmo confirmed that Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 was in development. Of course, our very own editor-in-chief/Overlord immediately went temporarily insane and (when he recovered) published a piece about what we would love to see in the third instalment of the controversial game. Now we have…
Read MoreWhen I was a child, I remember watching a film about the apocalypse. Not in the sense of literature like The Road, or games like The Last Of Us, though. This apocalypse had simply emptied the world of people, so that all that was left was one family, journeying through…
Read More“Every choice has its story. Every story has its hero.” And Stories: The Hidden Path tells the story of one such hero, Reynardo. The action-RPG game coming to PlayStation 4 is set in a fairytale universe filled with floating islands connected via airships. Related reading: Nick’s review of Tiny Brains…
Read MoreWhen we first saw the trailer for Volume, we were enthralled. It is the second game from Thomas Was Alone creator Mike Bithell. The game was expected to hit Steam worldwide on August 18, and PlayStation 4 and Vita on August 18 in North America and August 19 in Europe.…
Read MoreBetween Attack on Titan, Arslan: The Warriors of Legend, and Nobunaga’s Ambition, Koei Tecmo has been on a roll lately. The good news continues, with a new wealth of information regarding Samurai Warriors 4-II being released. First up, we have learned about four characters whose stories will be told throughout…
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