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Brutal Gamer News Wrap: 1/22/14

January 22, 2014

Borderlands 2/Donkey Kong Country/Kirby/PS Vita/Wii U

Borderlands 2 is coming to the Vita, we get a look at one of the boss battles in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Garden Warfare erupts on Xbox platforms and Kirby Triple Deluxe puts up some big numbers in the land of the rising sun. Borderlands 2 official on PS…

Developer profile; Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey

January 22, 2014

Auriea Harvey/developer profile/kickstarter/Michael Samyn/Tale of Tales/The Interactive Canvas

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…

Review: Hello Kitty Kruisers (iPad)

January 22, 2014

Apple/Hello Kitty/Hello Kitty Kruisers/iPad/iPhone/Kart Racer/Racing/Reviews/Sanrio

Review by Matt S. It’s disappointing when I buy a game only to find out it’s demanding more money from me. I have no problem with free-to-play games that lock content behind a pay wall. I don’t mind when a paid game has extra content that is an optional purchase.…

Review: UnEpic (Wii U)

January 21, 2014

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Review by Pierre-Yves L. I swear the game starts off just like my typical Thursday nights. The hero of Unepic is sitting around a table with some friends playing a pen-and-paper game like Dungeons & Dragons. Banter. Check. Snarky remarks. Check. This is looking good! Then something strange happens. The…

trademark-insanity-dont-call-your-game

January 21, 2014

Candy Crush Saga/copyright/Financial results/King/lawsuit/trademark

News by Matt S. Candy Crush Saga is a pretty popular game. I think everyone knows about King’s little Match-3 ripoff that could. But it’s not an original game concept by any means, which is why the company’s new strategy to take action against anyone who uses the word “Candy”…

Developer profile; Nic Watt

January 21, 2014

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Confirmed: Monster Monpiece is being localised, but it’s also being censored

January 21, 2014

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News by Matt S. Well, those rumours that we reported on not long ago have panned out to be true; card-battling strategy game, Monster Monpiece, is indeed heading out to the west. This is something that we never thought would happen, given Monster Monpiece’s risque premise, and it’s quite an…

Review: Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD (PlayStation 3)

January 21, 2014

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Review by Matt S. It’s a shame that Ubisoft decided to Assassin’s Creed Liberation’s hero, Aveline, on a portable game. While the original Vita release was a fine game in its own way, it was clear that this game didn’t have the production budget of the “real” Assassin’s Creed games.…

Gadget review: SteelSeries Stratus

January 20, 2014

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Review by Matt S. The SteelSeries Stratus is an exciting bit of hardware. Taking advantage of Apple’s new native support for wireless controllers, this little controller gives your iOS games buttons… and then lets you play them on your TV at home courtesy of your Apple TV. This device only…

Europeans and Aussies won’t get to play Rune Factory 4

January 20, 2014

bankruptcy/cancelled release/Financial results/Neverland/sad news

News by Matt S. Just before Christmas we reported the very sad news that the developer of Rune Factory 4, Neverland, had gone bankrupt, despite its final game (that being Rune Factory 4), being a massive hit on the charts. With the game not yet released in Europe and Australia,…

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