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Liberation Maiden iOS-bound; Already available in Australia and New Zealand

March 7, 2013

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Goichi Suda’s funky flight combat game, Liberation Maiden, has hit the iOS app store in Australia and New Zealand courtesy of Level-5. The A/NZ app store is increasingly used as a test run for iOS releases. We had Real Racing 3 a couple of weeks ahead of the rest of…

Review: Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus (Vita)

March 7, 2013

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I still don’t quite understand where the R18+ rating for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus came from. This is a game that features violence, but even with the PlayStation Vita enhancements the violence is aging quite badly. It’s more amusing like when an anvil lands on Wile E Coyote’s head…

Metal Gear Rising now available on PSN

March 7, 2013

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The latest Metal Gear title hits the PlayStation online store for your downloading pleasure. Metal Gear Rising Revengeance has launched to some pretty positive word of mouth. The more action-oriented Metal Gear title features cyber-ninja Raiden as he strikes out for revenge and cuts some very big holes in anything…

The Walking Dead stalk new parts of the globe

March 6, 2013

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Telltale’s amazing reinvention of the ‘point and click’ adventure game is now available for zombie-smashers in Australia and New Zealand. I honestly cannot believe this masterpiece of the modern adventure game has been kept from global release till now. It’s stunning, but ‘season 1’ of The Walking Dead is only…

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March 6, 2013

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Sony is really working hard for its fans. PlayStation Plus is without a doubt a high-value service, turning hundreds of dollars of games into a single, small, subscription cost. There’s more though. Sony’s answer to the PlayStation Network hack of some years ago was to give away games. Last year…

Interview: Studio HIVE on bringing Ong Bak to videogames

March 6, 2013

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If you haven’t seen the original Ong Bak film yet, then do yourself a favour and head over to your local video store’s foreign film section. This Thailand martial arts epic stars Tony Jaa, and it’s the kind of no-wires, no stunt-double action work that is so rarely seen in…

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March 6, 2013

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MUD – FIM Motocross World Championship (MUD) is the most comprehensive videogame rendition of the sport that’s ever been delivered to its fans. All three of the official circuits (MX1, MX2 and MXoN) are featured here, with each competition offering not only its authentic rosters, but impressively, its tracks as…

Trailer: Killer Is Dead; Goichi Suda is back to doing what he does best

March 5, 2013

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The games industry’s own Tarantino, Goichi Suda, is back to the kind of start art style that made is breakout masterpiece, Killer 7, such a memorable title. Killer Is Dead is, as the name suggests, thematically related to Killer 7, and this trailer has me all kinds of excited: Of…

Thunder Wolves takes to the air later this year

March 5, 2013

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Thunder Wolves is a helicopter action game that looks like a more arcade-y version of the classic Strike series. The game is on the way from bitComposer Games and Most Wanted Entertainment and puts players in the seat of a high-tech chopper under the command of a shadowy organization. In…

Trailer: Anomaly 2 announced and detailed

March 5, 2013

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11 bit studios has officially announced that Anomaly 2 is on the way for both PC and Mac. Check out the table-turning trailer after the jump. Anomaly 2 reverses things a bit as it casts the human race as the ‘anomaly’ on Earth now that the war of 2018 is…

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