A convention is never a good environment to trial a game that is likely to last 50 or so hours. If I had played a random 20 minutes of Final Fantasy XIII I would never have been inspired to pick up the final game, and that would have been a…
Read MoreAfter having a really good time with the PlayStation 4 and the spirit in which Sony has been courting original game ideas and independent developers, I was a little taken back by Microsoft’s booth at the EB Games Expo 2013. While the Xbox One is undoubtedly a powerful console, it’s…
Read MoreThere’s quite a bit riding on Drive Club. This is the game that Sony is essentially “packing in” with the PlayStation 4. When you consider that the only way to play online multiplayer is to have the PSPlus membership, and Drive Club is the first “free game” that’s on offer…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Three months ago, if you had have told me that my most anticipated PlayStation 4 game would be a indie title from a tiny Australian development team, I would have laughed at you. And yet, in the absence of a concrete announcement that Kadokawa Games’ Natural…
Read MoreUpdate: Thanks to everyone that took the time to leave us a genuine comment – it was great hearing from you all. However, as the comments have degenerated into a lot of insult slinging and elitism, I’ve decided that enough is enough and unfortunately the comments for this story needed…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I was able to get some hands-on time with Tecmo Koei and Keiji Inafune’s upcoming Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. It’s a game that didn’t really appeal to me beforehand – it’s another zombie game, after all. But then I started to play and something happened. I…
Read MoreIt starts with darkness and confusion. The explosive crack of quick-release bolts. A sickening lurch. The barrage of jet engines. It’s too dark to see. The viewscreen is faintly illuminated but nothing is visible beyond the glass. There is wind: an urgent, rushing kind of noise. We’re falling. Someone should…
Read MoreShelter is a game that’s going to be hard to put a score on. An artsy exploration title which to my hands plays as more of a tech demo than an actual game (not dissimilar to the likes of Dear Esther) means some people will find themselves loving it just…
Read MoreLet me begin by saying that I’m always a little wary of browser based Real Time Strategy games. I’m a big fan of the genre and yet many RTS games aimed at casual audiences abandon strategic depth for accessibility. In essence, the idea of a simplified strategy game is oxymoronic.…
Read MoreMost of us know the story about Final Fantasy XIV; a MMO release so catastrophic that Square Enix had to pull it offline and completely redesign it from the ground up. Now there is a public Beta giving players access to the game for the first time, and I am…
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