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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor; not looking very original

January 24, 2014

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Opinion by Matt S. I was tentatively interested when I heard that Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was under development. Warner Bros hasn’t done the best job with the franchise, but coming off the highs of the Batman franchise, I had hoped that it would have worked out how to do…

Ubisoft took a big risk with Might & Magic X: Legacy and I hope it pays off

January 24, 2014

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Opinion by Matt S. Ubisoft released Might & Magic X today; a game that it has billed as an old-school RPG to appeal to people who still remember loading up games through DOS. I’ve only spent around four hours in the game so far, which is a scratch on the…

Brutal Gamer News Wrap: 1/24/14

January 24, 2014

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Today in the Wrap GOG.com scores big for charity, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z goes live as a digital-only comic, Etherium actually looks to do something different with the RTS genre and goblins are fashionable again in Styx: Master of Shadows. GOG.com charity drive takes in $1.9 million Did you pick…

Developer profile; Ed Key

January 24, 2014

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Article by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, we have launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With that…

Friday 10s; the ten finest console launch titles

January 24, 2014

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Opinion by Jim S. Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in…

Agarest: Generations of War Zero is PC-bound

January 23, 2014

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News by Matt S. Courtesy of Ghostlight, Compile Heart’s weird and wonderful strategy RPG, Agarest: Generations of War Zero, is headed to a PC near you. Staring a fellow called Sieghart and as befits a Compile Heart game, plenty of women, players can expect around 80 hours of hardcore, turn-based…

Review: F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition (Wii U)

January 23, 2014

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Review by Matt S. One of the most underrated kart racing games in some time is F1 Race Stars. Taking the quite serious sport of F1 and turning it into a fun party game, while still maintaining something that resembles the real sport couldn’t possibly have been easy, and yet…

so-paradox-is-going-to-kill-my-wallet

January 23, 2014

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News by Matt S. Paradox has some very big plans indeed, which it has revealed at its own convention, underway right now. After a 2013 that included the release of Europa Universalis IV, I honestly wasn’t sure if the company could offer anything to top that in 2014… but, well,…

Idea Factory formally responds to annoyed fans over Monster Monpiece censorship

January 23, 2014

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News by Matt S. Idea Factory excited fans when it revealed that it was indeed localising ultra-niche card battler Monster Monpiece for the west. Then Idea Factory annoyed fans by admitting that it was doing a bit of self censorship, with a fair portion of the Japanese game’s art being…

Kickstarter Update: Techland to participate in our book!

January 23, 2014

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Article by Matt S. We’ve got another big developer announcement to make for The Interactive Canvas (you can back it on Kickstarter here). A couple of the artists from popular independent Polish developer, Techland, will be participating in the book for an interview on the topic of “illustrating horror.” Techland…

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