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Review: Fire Emblem Awakening (3DS)

April 24, 2013

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Leave it to Fire Emblem to get me playing my 3DS to the point where the battery is dying. I hadn’t seen that little red light for months, what with the majority of my time with the console being spent enjoying short spells of silly rhythm games and Virtual Console…

Interview: Paradox Development Studio on strategy games, design, and why this genre doesn’t work on consoles

April 23, 2013

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Before my laptop went belly-up, one of my favourite developers was Paradox Development Studio. Best known for producing the most hardcore of hardcore strategy games, Paradox games, like Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron and my personal favourite, Sengoku, all share one thing in common – you can lose months of…

Well, this is a rather spectacular-looking indie RPG

April 23, 2013

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Over at Pocket Tactics is a story about an upcoming iOS and Android game that looks absolutely spellbinding. Paper Sorcerer is as its name suggests; it’s a game that looks like it’s drawn on paper. It looks like that because it actually is – every part of this game has…

The week’s Play-Asia specials; Stickers, guns and giant mutant insects

April 23, 2013

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If you’re on the hunt for some cheap games for your consoles, Play-Asia rotates around weekly specials, and there are often some really great bargains to be picked up. It’s a good week for PS3 and 3DS owners. Gamers will be able to grab a Mario 3DS title, a PS3…

Review: Injustice: Gods Among Us (PS3)

April 23, 2013

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Warner Bros. clearly had this game in mind when it acquired Ed Boon’s team at NetherRealm Studios. It must have been a moment of celebration at the publisher’s headquarters when a premier fighting game developer went on the open market; here was after all an opportunity to bring in-house the…

Review: Trial of the Clone (iPad)

April 23, 2013

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Tin Man Games specialises in one kind of game – the gamebook. Specifically, the developer focuses on bringing the gamebook style of play to the iPad and iPhone. This means Tin Man Games games require a lot of reading, and offer very little flashy graphics and gimmicks. Still they manage…

Review: Bird Mania (iPhone)

April 22, 2013

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Early on in the 3DS’ eShop download platform there was a cheap and cheerful little downloadable game called Bird Mania. It was an endless runner (or flyer in this instance), and it was not anything more than that, but stylish presentation and a lack of other games on the platform…

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April 22, 2013

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The first thing you’ll notice about Soccer Up 3D is that its content is disappointingly limited. While it is a downloadable sports game on a handheld, the goal (no pun intended), of delivering a game with an attractive offering means it should feature some substance that will leave the player…

Review: Kung Fu Rabbit (Wii U)

April 22, 2013

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I’ll put this out there before I point out that I really do enjoy this game; a year from now (if not sooner), no one is going to remember Kung Fu Rabbit. This is a port of a mobile phone game that is being sold for three times the price…

Interview: Tin Man Games on making a successful career out of the dead gamebook genre

April 21, 2013

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Here’s an interesting little Australian indie developer for you. Neil Rennison, the man behind Tin Man Games, has made a career about a style of game that most people would have considered dead. The humble gamebook was a big deal back in the 80s with the likes of the Fighting…

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