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Review: Europa Universalis IV (PC)

August 22, 2013

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For the past week my sleep has been badly affected. In fact, for the first time since I was at university and in the habit of putting off writing essays that I had three months to do for the night before they were due, I have found myself going completely…

Minecraft as narrative; one of the great misunderstandings in gaming

August 21, 2013

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All these years later, there’s still a lot of chatter about Minecraft around the Internet, and indeed it still sells like hotcakes; it’s sitting right at the top of the retail sales charts in some regions and on many iOS app stores it has settled comfortably into a permanent top-5…

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August 21, 2013

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Every so often (once every six months or so) we like to do a brief readers survey, to continue ensuring that we can provide the very best content and service that we can manage. The survey only takes a couple of moments to fill out, and will provide us with…

Brutal Gamer News Wrap: 8/21/13

August 21, 2013

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The PS4 finally has a release date, there’s way more of a reason to own a Vita, the eShop welcomes a sale on Atlus games and The Chaos Engine returns for PC. Big PS4 news drops at Gamescom As expected, Sony announced the release date for it’s upcoming fourth PlayStation…

Review: Thunder Wolves (PS3)

August 21, 2013

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Thunder Wolves comes out of the gates, all of its guns blazing. It makes not apologies for being what it is: an shooting title that looks and sounds like it would be right at home with a buddy action movie from the 80’s. The V8 Ninja wrote up a nice…

Review: Cubetractor (PC)

August 21, 2013

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There are so many tower defense games out there that it comes as a nice change when a game comes along and tries to change up the genre. Cubetractor tries, but doesn’t succeed. Listed as a “neo-retroesque action-strategy-puzzle hybrid”, Cubetractor sees you taking control of the little droid Endroi, who…

Review: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (PS3)

August 20, 2013

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Watching what Edward D. Wood thought would be his magnum opus, Plan 9 From Outer Space, it’s easy to see how much care went into such a flawed product. Wood was a truly horrible director, but the ideas found within his work were remarkably progressive; he’s a man that cared…

Pokemon games are popular. Who knew?

August 20, 2013

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Over the weekend at a game show in Tokyo, The Pokemon Company released some pretty interesting statistics. Pokemon Black/White sold 15.42 million copies as of March 31 of this year, and Pokemon Black 2/White 2 moved 7.81 million copies. In total, 172 million Pokemon games have been sold worldwide. That…

Review: The Life Of A Pacifist Is Often Fraught With Conflict (Ouya)

August 20, 2013

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If the name alone of this short little freeware visual novel does not automatically cue you in that this is not a major production title, feel free to stop reading this review right now. Standing against violence in video games is something that hardly any major publisher would ever dream…

Review: Pokémon Rumble U (Wii U)

August 20, 2013

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Back when the 3DS didn’t have much software to speak of, I found myself hopelessly addicted to Pokémon Rumble Blast. It was addictive in short bursts and offered a nice little level structure that had me wanting to replay levels over and over again to catch all the critters. Pokémon…

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