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Review: The Last Of Us. No, it is not gaming’s “Citizen Kane,” but it is awesome fun

June 17, 2013

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I just want to get this out from the start: The Last Of Us is an incredible game. Naughty Dog’s finest title, to be sure, and if you’re looking for buyer’s advice, just skip the rest of this review and look at the score at the bottom. Suffice to say,…

Interview: Australia’s Ben Kosmina on indie development

June 16, 2013

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One of the interesting Australian indie developers is Green Stripe Snake, a one-man project fronted by Ben Kosmina. Its three projects; MacGuffin’s Curse, Jolly Rover and Pirate Blast, are fascinating in that, not only are they fun games in their own right, but they are far more than one-man projects.…

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June 16, 2013

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Now that the dust has settled from the storm that was E3 2013, the time of reflection has begun. The whirlwind between Microsoft and Sony has clearly been topping headlines across major aggregate gaming sites understandably, but not so much so for Nintendo. For better or worse, Nintendo decided to…

The weekly discussion: So, what games are you looking forward to?

June 14, 2013

The weekly discussion/weekly chat

With E3 now over, we basically know everything that we’ll be playing over the next year, as well as the consoles that we’ll be playing those games on. Which makes this weekly discussion an easy (some would even say… lazy!) one: What games are you most looking forward to over…

Friday 10s: The E3 highlights edition

June 14, 2013

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Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in the world and this…

Review: Strength of the Sword 3 (PS3)

June 14, 2013

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Let’s get one thing out of the way. When you play Strength of the Sword 3, you will die. And die. And die a few more times (I assume you mean your avatar, not you personally. Or you’re a zombie Shaan now? – ed). This is perhaps the most impressive…

Brutal Gamer News Wrap: E3 2013 edition

June 14, 2013

Brutal Gamer News Wrap/E3/PS4/Wii U/Xbox One

Yet another big show has come and gone and there was no shortage of news on both the new consoles that are on the way and the glut of games that’ll be accompanying them. Microsoft trips over themselves, but brings the games The Xbox One press conference came through in…

Review: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (3DS)

June 13, 2013

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The majority of the adventure genre is fittingly moulded around exploration. The most common approach to “exploring” in retro gaming was to utilise trial and error puzzles with ambiguous solutions rather than teach the player intuitively so that the length of the experience could be drawn out. The former approach…

Nintendo concedes to free-to-play, surely the pressure is on for it to go mobile too?

June 13, 2013

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Interesting news coming out of Nintendo’s towers; the company is indeed working on a free-to-play title to be release by March 2014. This announcement came out a pre-E3 analyst briefing, and as reported by Nintendo Life it appears to be a concession by the company that this is what needs…

why-are-people-complaining-about-psplus

June 13, 2013

Opinion/PlayStation/PlayStation 4/ps plus

In the fallout from E3, I’ve observed a weird little wave of discontent gain momentum on the social wires (ok, Twitter and Facebook). It seems that people just had to dig through Sony’s E3 show, that two hour-long master class in marketing brilliance, and find something to complain about. What…

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