Preview by Matt S. Back in 1983, Konami released Track & Field (in America), also known as Hyper Sports (in Europe and Japan). It was a seminal arcade game that set the tone for arcade sports games for decades afterwards, and is to this day fondly remembered by a huge…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. D3 Publisher isn’t exactly known for high standards with its games. Whether you enjoy School Girl/ Zombie Hunter, Onechanbara and Bullet Girls Phantasia or not (for what it’s worth, I find them to be brilliantly entertaining), you would never suggest that they set some kind of…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I’ll admit that I was one of those that was disappointed with the direction that Koei Tecmo seemed to be taking with Dead or Alive 6 when it was first unveiled back at E3. I do believe that the series identity is wrapped up in its…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. As someone who writes about games I’m always both fascinated by and apprehensive of the jump towards developing my own: I have a level of head knowledge about systems, stories and mechanics that work from a larger scale, but each time I try to translate these…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I’ve now played Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch. Never mind that the preview session featured an earlier version that didn’t include the recently-announced King K Rool and Simon Belmont. This might have been the same version of the game that plenty of people…
Read MorePreview by Matt C. I can understand why the developers of The Messenger would take what could have been a huge, shocking twist and use it as a selling point in the game’s marketing. After all, the thing I’m talking about is one of the most visible ways of distinguishing…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. As I mentioned in my write-up of SMASH! 2018, one of the real highlights of the event for my mind was the gaming section. Every year this section has gone from strength to strength, and this year there was a huge range of really delightful indie…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Koihime Enbu RyoRaiRai was a surprise announcement indeed when Degica Games made it last week. The original has been kicking around on PS4 and PC for a while in Japan, but had only been released on PC in the west. Here I go hands-on with the…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. Ghost Town Games is going to have us all cooking up a storm once again. As a sequel to one of the most deceptively bombastic games ever made, Overcooked 2 is shaping up to be a continuation of the original game’s food-themed stress simulator. Related reading:…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Recently I had the opportunity to get a couple of solid hours in to the English version of Dragon Quest XI. I got to noodle around the very start of the game, and then play a bit more a few hours down the track after I’d…
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