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

June 14, 2013

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…

Review: The Night of the Rabbit (PC)

June 13, 2013

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Daedalic Entertainment has done an excellent job of providing games that help show that while point-and-click adventure games are no longer as prevalent in video gaming as they used to be, the genre is far from dead either. The Night of the Rabbit is a tale that follows a young…

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June 13, 2013

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While we had a couple of issues with Nintendo’s E3 show this year, there was one game that is impossible not to get excited over; Smash Brothers 4. To be released on both 3DS and Wii U the game looks spectacular on both platforms, and there’s a couple of new…

Review: Paint Park Plus (Vita)

June 12, 2013

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Sony has been talking up the social direction it wants to take its consoles and games. Even when it’s not conventional multiplayer where everyone sits down in front of the TV and plays together at the same time, Sony wants you engaged with your games and your friends when you’re…

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