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Review: Girl Fight (PS3)

October 22, 2013

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Review by Matt S. Exhibit A: Dead or Alive. A game that features rather lovely ladies (and men, but no one really pays any attention to them, do they?) wearing rather… lovely… costumes beating the living bejeebus out of one another. Dead or Alive is a popular franchise. I get…

J-Stars Victory Vs. – Screens and special edition info

October 22, 2013

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J-Stars Victory Vs. is bringing together a lot of popular anime characters and cramming them into a single fighting game. Crossovers are nothing new – in fact we have been seeing a lot of them lately from different companies (such as the Street Fighter and Tekken crossover or the huge…

Australia’s gaming demographics and the problem of violence

October 22, 2013

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Opinion by Matt S. Yesterday, Australian industry body, iGEA, and Bond University, released the Digital Australia 2014 report. This report has been an annual release since 2005, and charts the demographics of people that play games within Australia, as well as their attitude towards games. The full report can be…

Review: Space Rangers HD: A War Apart (PC)

October 22, 2013

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Review by Nick H. Generally when a game tries to mix a load of different features from varying genres into one title, it tends to be poor to decent in executing a lot of these features while proving to be excellent in none. They tend to become classic examples of…

Review: Escape from Zombie City (3DS eShop)

October 22, 2013

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Review by V8Ninja. I would be impressed if I met anyone who had managed to completely avoid zombie games, books and films. Over the past decade, zombies have gone from African/ Haitian reanimated corpse (depending on which mythology you choose to believe is the genesis for the zombie) to horror…

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October 21, 2013

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Review by Clark A. Aqua Moto Racing 3D is rather humble in the current landscape of racing games on the 3DS. It has no star power, no prestigious franchise history, and opts for a comparatively niche jet ski theme. Even the title is modest, making no bold claims and presenting…

Free-to-play ruins two more classic franchises; Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeon Keeper

October 21, 2013

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So, over the last week we’ve had two more free-to-play games based on classic franchises released; Dungeons & Dragons Arena of War by Mobage, and Dungeon Keeper by EA Mythic, the same studio responsible for taking Ultima and turning it into a free-to-play game. I know I shouldn’t have gone…

Doing a new DK Rap; hands on with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

October 21, 2013

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Preview by Sam M. Arguably one of the best titles on the Wii was Donkey Kong Country Returns, which emerged on the console in 2010, and was then rereleased on the Nintendo 3DS. Now, developer Retro Studios looks to make its debut on the Wii U with the sequel, Donkey…

Deadly Premonition Visual Companion; I want more games to have these

October 20, 2013

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Article by Matt S. At 352 pages, the Deadly Premonition Visual Companion is an essential purchase for anyone who is a fan of Swery’s polarising horror game. For the $10 or so that it costs, you’ll quickly understand just why this needed to be a digital book on iTunes than…

Review: Rain (PS3)

October 18, 2013

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Review by Matt S. Melancholia can make for an oddly beautiful theme when done right. We’ve seen it work for poets such as T.S Eliot (“By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown” – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is…

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