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January 28, 2014

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News by Matt S. When a game sells 20 million copies, it’s safe to say it was a success. And 20 million copies is precisely what Bethesda has achieved with Skyrim. This figure makes it the most successful RPG ever developed (with the exception of a couple of Pokemon games),…

Legend of Grimrock 2 screens; and boy does this game look divine

January 27, 2014

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News by Matt S. Just days after Ubisoft released its rather spectacular love letter to old school dungeon crawling, Might & Magic X: Legacy, we now have screenshots for the long-awaited sequel to indie old school dungeon crawler, Legend of Grimrock. And this game is looking good. Where Might &…

Review: Blackguards (PC)

January 27, 2014

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Review by Matt S. Blackguards had the potential to be something truly exceptional, promising a deep tactical RPG experience with a penchant for extreme difficulty and hexes. That’s right, hexes! Strategy gamers love hexes. Someone should have then explained to the developers, Daedalic Entertainment, that if you are going to…

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January 27, 2014

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Review by Pierre-Yves L. If The Legend of Dragoon and the miscellaneous brawlers over the years had a love child, then this would be it. Lucifer Ring’s main character Nash looks and behaves as though he could have been the twin of those other classic heroes. This is a genre…

Review: Might & Magic X: Legacy (PC)

January 26, 2014

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Review by Matt S. Why do I love Might & Magic X so much? Let me count the ways! 1) It’s an old-school style RPG Might & Magic X is a turn based game where players move around an environment laid out like a grid, one step at a time.…

Trailer: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 shows off its cinematic side

January 24, 2014

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News by Matt S. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is a highly anticipated game. After the previous game finally broke the curse that said “3D Castlevania games can’t be fun,” the sequel to Lords of Shadow is going to have a lot to live up to. We don’t expect the…

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…

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