“Who would ever want to play a modern city builder on a console?” is a comment I have heard people ask when they heard the news that Tropico 5 would be headed to consoles. “These games need mice and keyboards and stuff!” Except they don’t. Provided a developer gets the…
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 MoreAs I booted up Story of Seasons for the first time, I was greeted with a couple sentences that outlined the developers’ desire for players to appreciate farm life and respect nature as a whole. A message that succinct couldn’t reasonably articulate an impactful environmental message, regrettably, but perhaps that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Papers, Please is not the kind of game that would ever feature in a Christmas countdown. It’s most certainly not the kind of game that you should be playing to set yourself in the mood for the season. It is a brutal, depressing, and frank deconstruction…
Read MoreReview by Patrick B. The appeal of most sports games lies in the ability to take part in the action. In soccer, the thrill comes from controlling individual team members and leading them to victory. With the Football Manager series, however, the excitement comes from managing a team from the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There are a couple of genres that iPads do really, really well, and Football Manager is an example of that. A cerebral, menu-driven experience rather than an action button masher, Football Manager is the kind of game that is perfect to take down to the pub…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Do you recall during the inexperience of your childhood what you wanted to be when you grew up? I aspired to be three things (other than a samurai secret agent): a gaming journalist, a daringly burly and descriptive creative writer, and a comedic political satirist (really,…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The Sims have always been a guilty pleasure. I tend to be a very objective driven gamer, in that I want to see levels, and then complete them. The Sims in many ways is the exact opposite of this and so has been a nice break…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. If Godus was Just Another Farmville Clone by some random developer, then it would be easy to ignore. But this is the game that was meant to be the spiritual sequel to the legendary Populous by the man that created Populous himself, Peter Molyneux. And in…
Read MorePreview by Trent P. If Habitat had an opening sequence implemented at this stage, I imagine it would go along the lines of the following: There’s a collision above Earth with a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream, the Black Knight Satellite, and like hitting a piñata, objects lost in time clutter…
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