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Review: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (iPad)

June 21, 2013

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I am really disappointed with XCOM. Not because of the game itself, but the fact that, within a day of it being released on the Apple App store for $20.99 the Internet has filled with comments from people saying words to the effect of “it’s too expensive” and “I’ll wait…

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June 21, 2013

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I love having Agricola on the iPad. If you’ve ever played the board game (especially with expansions) then you’ll relate to this; the physical game has so many pieces that it can feel like it takes longer to set up than actually play. It is of course worth that set…

Interview: On gamification and making statistics fun

June 20, 2013

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Gamification. Here’s a word that will send shivers of fear down the back of anyone that hates marketing buzzwords. For gamification is the buzzword of the games industry at the moment. What is it? Simply put it’s the idea of taking something that is anything but a game, like education…

Review: Bladestorm: The Hundred Year’s War (PS3)

June 20, 2013

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Just recently Bladestorm, a Koei game from back in 2007, was released for download on the PlayStation Network. Given that Digitally Downloaded wasn’t around when the game was originally released, we felt that now would be a good time to remedy that gap in our review’s database. A bit of…

‘Australian games industry is ripe for recovery;’ indie devs score big Government grants

June 20, 2013

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Not a day after the depressing news that the Australian game development industry had shrunk to a third of the size of what it was a few years ago, the Federal Government announced the “winners” of its $6 million Games Enterprise investment into the growth and development of the industry.…

Review: Big Bass Arcade: No Limits (3DS)

June 20, 2013

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It has been quite a while since I sat back and tried a fishing title, but in years past I had spent plenty of time with games that ranged from almost tactical in the nature of their simulations, to almost arcade-like in their simplicity. What makes Big Bass Arcade: No…

Did the future for Microsoft’s Kinect just skyrocket upward?

June 20, 2013

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Unless you have decided to stay hidden under a rock, chances are that you already know that Microsoft just pulled one of the largest 180s even before seen in the gaming industry. The ‘anti-consumer’ DRM policies that Microsoft spent years to develop were just nullified within a matter of days.…

Devil’s Advocate: I wish Microsoft had have stuck to its vision

June 20, 2013

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I want to make this clear in the first couple of words (as in, the only ones your typical knee-jerker will read before getting all abusive in the comments section): I was not a fan of the Microsoft Xbox One. In fact, the fact that the company has backtracked on…

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June 19, 2013

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Microsoft changes course and announces that the Xbox One will be used game friendly and will no longer require online check-ins. Well this was somewhat unexpected. In the same week that the company declared that Xbox One games will cost the same as Xbox 360 titles, Microsoft responded to rumors…

Review: Shining Force: Sword of Hajya (3DS)

June 19, 2013

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Ever since the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console started rolling out I have been waiting (and waiting) for the classic RPGs that I loved to play on the go to start hitting the store. Specifically of course I’m referring to the Game Boy’s Final Fantasy Legends games, but there were others,…

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