Review by Matt S. I went into Wing of Darkness expecting a cross between Liberation Maiden and Ace Combat. You pilot a giant suit of mech armour controlled by an empowered woman (that being the Liberation Maiden part) in aerial dogfights that are similar in style to Ace Combat. That…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. “Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” so the popular truism goes, and traditionally it has been the role of the arts to preserve history and make it palatable to the next generation – thus providing that source of collective “memory” across…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. A recent article on Kotaku had me thinking about the way that video games depict war again, and I realised that I haven’t actually done a video where I consolidate all my thoughts into how war is treated as a subject yet. And so now I’ve…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I cannot make myself play the recently-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare any longer. And I cannot review it. It is a piece of jingoistic, military hero worship propaganda, and the way that it blatantly re-writes history in order to prop up an aggressively nationalistic perspective…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. One of the core features of 11-11 Memories Retold is the photography that one of the two characters takes from the battlefield. Designed to replicate the look and feel of the photographs that made it back from the real World War 1, this feature is a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Why can’t more games about war be like World War 1 biopic, 11-11 Memories Retold? Rather than bombastic nonsense that functions as barely veiled propaganda and military hero worship, why don’t we have more genuine stories about war? The shattering emotions and the horror that the…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Germany has strict laws about the use of Nazi imagery, and who could blame it? That means that until now, video games containing Nazi symbolism or characters could not be sold in the country. Last month, the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body (USK) announced that this decision…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. So of course the big new AAA-industry news had to happen while I was on my flight back from Japan. EA revealed Battlefield V, with the news that it will be based on World War 2, and it has a woman soldier in the promo art,…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. I am not the only person who considers it no coincidence recent worldly events have been taking place at a time in which World War 2 is fading from living memory. Take Brexit as an example, with the British population disregarding the European Union greatest achievement:…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey, and his company, is approaching the subject of World War 2 in a way that can only be described as horrific. There’s just no other way to describe what is going on with Call of Duty: World War 2, following a…
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