Preview by Matt S. Demon Gaze II’s full release in English is just around the corner, and NISA (the publisher in the west) has been kind enough to allow us to go hands on with the game. Demon Gaze II is notable as the first Japanese dungeon crawler on the…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Smite Tactics isn’t really a tactics game, which was disappointing right off the bat. It’s a pure-play digital trading card game, like Hearthstone, which represents the characters in the cards on a playfield as miniatures. It’s possible to move these characters around a small grid area,…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Project Cars 2, the sequel to the quite phenomenal hardcore racing game simulator, is out in around a month now, and while most people don’t seem to think I’m a fan of racing games (I’m not sure how many of these things I need to play…
Read MorePreview by Ginny W. The word “sandbox” is starting to elicit a reaction from me that sits somewhere in the foul territory between an outbreak of hives and cold sweats. If there was ever a genre of game that was overdue for a drought, it’d be sandbox games. This isn’t…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. White Day is a cult classic in every sense of the word. Released first way back in 2001, it’s a game that’s still getting discovered to this day, with a mobile port from a couple of years ago. Now that it’s getting a release on modern…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Uncharted fans are going to absolutely love Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. That might sound like an obvious statement to make, but for all the hype behind having an Uncharted game where you’re not in control of a Drake, I think it’s an important statement to make…
Read MorePreview by Ginny W. I’ve got a bit of a bone to pick with the phrase “rogue-like” and its use in modern gaming vernacular, and I always treat a game with a reasonable dose of skepticism when it self-promotes as such. Before anyone gets outraged, this isn’t a criticism of…
Read MorePreview by Ginny W. While Notch may have suffered a bit of a publicity blowout after being an idiot on the Internet, his progeny, Minecraft, remains ever popular. Part of that may be that no other building simulator looks as child-friendly at Minecraft, but it’s far more likely that he…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Final Fantasy XII, remastered into glorious HD with Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, isn’t long away now, and for many people it’ll be the first opportunity to play a game that had been previously restricted to a console that has been long retired. I’ve had…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. One of the lesser-known things about me is that I love city builders almost as much as I love JRPGs. I don’t get to talk about the games as much, as I generally play games on console these days, and it’s rare for city builders to…
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