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Dark Souls II closed Beta looks to start taking PS3 applicants early next month

August 26, 2013

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Namco Bandai Games recently revealed that it will be rolling out new streams of information daily on the Dark Souls II Facebook page, starting September 5th. This closed-beta will allow players to step into one of the most treacherous areas of the game and are stating that only the hardcore…

Review: Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS)

August 26, 2013

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The Shin Megami Tensei series does not quite have the same reputation for brutal difficulty of the likes of Fire Emblem, though it certainly comes close and the series can be somewhat difficult for newcomers and is rooted very firmly in a lot of the ‘typical’ JRPG principles. You’ll be…

Review: A-Men (PS3)

August 26, 2013

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To be fair, Bloober does try to warn you right out of the gates, as A-Men’s description calls it out as a title geared toward “hardcore gamers”, and describes it as a strategy title. I initially was thinking more tactical/combat/war strategy than puzzle strategy, but upon firing this title up…

Project Phoenix: One Kickstarter to watch

August 23, 2013

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I don’t often support Kickstarter projects. As far as I’m concerned it’s still an unproven service and frightening in how little it holds the people that run the projects to account. But every so often a project with real potential emerges that would not have been possible in any sense…

Review: Disney Infinity (Wii U)

August 22, 2013

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When it came time to head down to the local game store and pick up my copy of Disney Infinity, the only platform that made sense to me was the Nintendo Wii U. Not because the Gamepad is used in any special way (it isn’t), but for the same reason…

Review: Shelter (PC)

August 22, 2013

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When developer Might and Delight decided it wanted to do something different coming off its successful release of the demanding platformer that is Pid, it wasn’t joking. With the gaming industry so overly saturated with shooters and retro, well, everything (including shooters), – where does an indie developer turn to…

Review: Game of Watchcraft: Spawn of Squishy (iPad)

August 22, 2013

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Consider this for a minute – if you deconstruct a game to its very core you’ll get something that is perhaps more primitive than we’d like to admit. For all the progress that we claim the games industry has made, the ideas behind the games we are playing are as…

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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