Having recently visited America, I did my best to appreciate a lot of the culture that yells “AMERICA”. And while I certainly enjoyed a lot of it (I already am a huge fan of ice hockey), the Americans certainly made baseball, an otherwise interesting twist on cricket (a sport that,…
Read MorePeople often criticise the annual updates for sports franchises. “Why buy FIFA each year?!?” they proclaim with the righteousness that so characterises ‘gamer’ community, suggesting that their taste in games makes it apparently impossible to comprehend that other people might in fact have their own reasons to enjoying – and…
Read MoreI’m not normally the one to jump the gun at trying out a horror game, or anything that could potentially provide jump scares or even just suspense. Yet, here I found myself playing a game that could realise all these fears at once. From the moment that I stepped into…
Read MoreI know that Xenoblade Chronicles is considered to be the pinacle of JRPGs on the Nintendo Wii, but if you ask me, as good as that game is, it’s not the best at all. Pandora’s Tower, released very late in the Wii’s life (and, if you’re in America, after the…
Read MorePersonally, I still feel that the games that have effectively use the Wii U gamepad are few and far between. Wii U games rely too much on the novelty of being able to push everything off one screen and onto another. Affordable Space Adventures, however, uses the gamepad to manage your…
Read MoreWithin the first twenty seconds, small cute hugbots emitting pink love hearts float affectionately towards you. Peaceful and placid they just want to be your friend. But you, merciless to the extreme, aim and pull the trigger, scattering their parts into a hailstorm of loot. This then is the intent…
Read MoreCassie Cage, a new fighter in the Mortal Kombat ring and the daughter of Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage (surely Sonya could have done better for herself), has a move where she punches a guy between the legs so hard that his testicles explode. And Mortal Kombat X is kind…
Read MoreBlue Estate is an rails shooter much in the vein of the the House of the Dead series. It is also based on a comic by Viktor Kalvachev & Kosta Yanev. Now, I have never read the comics so I can’t say if this game stays true to the story…
Read MoreStealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones is a creative puzzler in which players will find themselves in the shoes of a clone who, after running through a training facility, finds out that all of the testing, all of the deaths of his fellow comrades, was for nothing more than…
Read MoreIt took a while for the Japanese developers to really start jumping on board with the PlayStation 4, with the first year of the console’s existence being marked very heavily with games from western developers, but only a few notable examples from Japan. Now, though, after a truly spectacular couple…
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