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The weekly discussion: Your favourite characters!

April 26, 2013

From the very earliest eras of game development, characters have been critical to the experience. Would Space Invaders be the same game if it didn’t have those sprites that, in two frames of animation had so much personality that we still instantly recognise them now? Would Nintendo be in the…

Friday 10s: The great original soundtracks

April 26, 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: Bioshock Infinite (Xbox 360)

April 25, 2013

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The first Bioshock was a huge hit when it released to excellent sales and reviews. The world of Rapture was wonderfully realised, the city beneath the water a dark, often creepy affair that managed to blend an interesting story with excellent gameplay mechanics, making it stand out from many of…

Brutal Gamer News Wrap: 4/26/13

April 25, 2013

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Rumblings in the E3 (and pre-E3) landscape shaped the biggest news of this past week along with a plethora of C2E2 news and some big acquisitions by Nordic Games. Nintendo drops out of the press conference shuffle The biggest news of the week is a story that just broke today…

Review: Castlevania: Lords of Shadows – Mirror of Fate (3DS)

April 25, 2013

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Somewhere along the line, Mirror of Fate lost me. I’m not quite sure exactly where that was, and I did manage to struggle on despite not really engaging with the experience, but there was definitely a point where this game went from being filled with potential to being a startlingly-simple…

next-xbox-reveal-date-revealed

April 25, 2013

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So, we’re finally going to get a look at this Durango thing that the Internet has been busy spreading rumours about; Microsoft has sent around an email inviting everyone to come look at their next console via a web stream on 22 May. Unlike Sony, Microsoft has picked an awful…

Review: Badland (iPad)

April 24, 2013

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Two former RedLynx developers parted ways with the Trials series and formed a small independent studio, called Frogmind. The team’s first title, Badland, has landed on the iOS Marketplace, bringing top-notch visuals and the signature trial-and-error styled gameplay that we are so familiar with in RedLynx’s games.Taking cues from the…

Review: Mittens (iPad)

April 24, 2013

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It’s the age-old love story. Cat falls in love with cats, by collecting diamonds, balloons and milk to win her over. Mittens is the latest game in a long series of physic-based titles on touchscreen devices. Mittens comes from Disney, who also gave us Where’s My Water? and Where’s My…

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…

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