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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII-3; Getting hands on with Lightning

October 7, 2013

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A convention is never a good environment to trial a game that is likely to last 50 or so hours. If I had played a random 20 minutes of Final Fantasy XIII I would never have been inspired to pick up the final game, and that would have been a…

Idea Factory International’s CEO on Sony, working with NISA and censorship

October 6, 2013

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Article by Matt S. It’s a piece of news that was largely overlooked by the mainstream games press: Idea Factory, better known in the west as “the owner of that Compile Heart developer that makes those weird Hyperdimension Neptunia games,” has set up an office in the US. For fans…

Gallery: Cosplayers at EB Games Expo 2013

October 5, 2013

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Ah cosplayers. No gaming, anime or movie convention would be quite the same without them. This year I must say there were fewer cosplayers hanging around the EB Games Expo than there was last year, but the Just Cos cosplay competition that is a major part of the event drew…

Hands on with the Xbox One; iteration, not revolution

October 5, 2013

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After having a really good time with the PlayStation 4 and the spirit in which Sony has been courting original game ideas and independent developers, I was a little taken back by Microsoft’s booth at the EB Games Expo 2013. While the Xbox One is undoubtedly a powerful console, it’s…

Review: Shadowrun Returns (iPad)

October 4, 2013

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Review by Matt S. Shadowrun is a legendary RPG, both in terms of the pen-and-paper tabletop game and the original console release a few generations ago. When a certain big publisher decided that the ‘reboot’ of Shadowrun would be yet another generic FPS and managed to annoy the long time…

Preview: Drive Club (PlayStation 4)

October 4, 2013

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There’s quite a bit riding on Drive Club. This is the game that Sony is essentially “packing in” with the PlayStation 4. When you consider that the only way to play online multiplayer is to have the PSPlus membership, and Drive Club is the first “free game” that’s on offer…

Preview: Blast ‘Em Bunnies (PlayStation 4)

October 3, 2013

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Preview by Matt S. Three months ago, if you had have told me that my most anticipated PlayStation 4 game would be a indie title from a tiny Australian development team, I would have laughed at you. And yet, in the absence of a concrete announcement that Kadokawa Games’ Natural…

PlayStation 4 hands on; this could well be the greatest console ever

October 3, 2013

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Update: Thanks to everyone that took the time to leave us a genuine comment – it was great hearing from you all. However, as the comments have degenerated into a lot of insult slinging and elitism, I’ve decided that enough is enough and unfortunately the comments for this story needed…

Review: FIFA 14 (PS3)

October 3, 2013

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Say what you want about EA, it makes great games. There’s just no other way to put it. NHL 14 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 both excelled over previous entries, but now that FIFA 14 has run onto the field, all of those fingers that got pointed at EA…

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October 3, 2013

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One of the bigger new features added to the iPhone and iPad with iOS 7 was a formal structure for controller support. There have been some controllers produced in the past, but these were workarounds – there hasn’t been a formal, native support for controllers. Until now. And, all of…

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