I have a somewhat long, odd history with online games. I got into online gaming via MUDs around the mid-90’s for a time. I got busy with college and quit playing for a few years, but then got back into them again around the time Ultima: Online was getting big.…
Read MoreThere is something very Tim Burtonesque running behind Persona 4. On the one hand players experience the banality of life in a small Japanese village. Children watch TV. Incessant rain boxes people indoors. Families complain that a big shopping mall is driving the local businesses out of town. And then…
Read MoreIt was a relief to see that Ragnarok Odyssey had arrived in Australia. Here was one of those early Vita games that I was really looking forward to, but was worried it would be too niche for this market. While I needed to wait a while to finally get my…
Read MoreYou wouldn’t know it, but Generation of Chaos: Pandora’s Reflection is actually the sixth main entry in a relatively niche JRPG franchise. This makes it tough to appreciate just how dramatically Pandora’s Reflection shakes up the established formulas of the previous titles. If there’s an advantage to this though, it’s…
Read MoreOriginally a release on the Nintendo DS, Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes has made the high definition jump from consoles to iOS. It’s good, but the technical faults of this version mean it fails to recapture the charm that it originally had. It’s not that Clash of Heroes is…
Read MoreAt a glance, I had no idea what to make out of Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken. From the very beginning the title oozes humour and sharp visuals, but I really had no idea what to expect from the game until I started to play it. What we have here is a…
Read MoreIn 2008, RedLynx released Trials 2: Second Edition on PC, bringing the tough-as-nails “Trials” action that we enjoyed in previous Flash-based games into a full-fledged release. It went on to release multiple Trials titles exclusively on XBLA over the next few years – improving the formula with each new release.…
Read MoreI’m the first to admit I’m not a fan of the FPS genre, but I do make an exception with the Crysis series. The reason that I manage to enjoy this specific series is that it resolves the one main issue that I have with the FPS genre; the genre…
Read MoreFist of the North Star is as old as I am. 30 years. It’s a little frightening for me to come to realise that, after all, no one likes to be reminded that they’re a couple of years away from a mid-life crisis and buying a Lamborghini (actually, that doesn’t…
Read MoreI am really disappointed with Real Racing 3. That disappointment has nothing to do with the game itself, which is one of the finest racing games I’ve ever played, let alone on a mobile device, but it’s a game that is nearly crippled by an awkward free-to-play model which actively…
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