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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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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…

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