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The week’s Play-Asia specials: Art, art and the art of stealth and assassination

February 26, 2013

Play-Asia

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. So what’s on for this week? If you like Japanese RPGs, Japanese weirdness, and more than a little dash of Japanese…

even-with-r18-australian

February 26, 2013

Atelier Totori Plus/Australia/classifications/Opinion/R18

Today’s nasty little surprise that a near-innocent JRPG has been slapped with an R18+ rating by the Australian Classification Board is further proof that Australia is in many ways the poster-boy of western hypocrisy with regards to sex and violence. I’ve written about this topic in the past and that…

Trailer: Rainbow Moon on PlayStation Vita; first footage

February 26, 2013

eastasiasoft/PlayStation/PlayStation Vita/Rainbow Moon/Rainbow Sky/Trailers

Just a few days ago we revealed the good news that eastasiasoft is formally publishing a sequel to the excellent Rainbow Moon. Clearly the publisher is in the mood to get us excited, because it has also shared the first footage of the upcoming port of Rainbow Moon on the…

Painkiller Hell & Damnation DLC blazes to life

February 26, 2013

Hell and Damnation/Painkiller/PC/Steam

The sort-of rebirth for Nordic Games and the Farm 51’s old school action series Painkiller has a brand new round of DLC with ‘The Clock Strikes Meat-Night’. Available now on Steam, the new content includes three new maps, new enemies,, new weapons, and more. The DLC is packed full of…

The Australian Classification Board has been overrun by lunatics giving R18+ ratings like it’s free candy

February 26, 2013

age rating/Atelier Totori Plus/Australia/classifications/R18

Like most other Australians I cheered a little bit (ok, a lot) when Australia finally emerged from the media dark ages and realised that sometimes, just sometimes, adults like to play games too. By that I mean we have finally got the R18+ rating. Games can finally be classified as…

Baldur’s Gate opens on OSX

February 26, 2013

Apple/Baldur's Gate/Black Isle/mac/OSX

Mac gamers rejoice, one of the greatest CRPG’s of all time is now available on OSX. There isn’t too much that hasn’t been said about Baldur’s Gate. Black Isle’s now classic RPG was a landmark game for the PC the second it hit stores way back in 1998 and it’s…

Atelier Totori – Looks like it will receive a global release

February 26, 2013

Atelier Totori Plus/NIS America/Sony PlayStation Vita/Tecmo Koei

An interesting find, but it looks like Tecmo Koei is going to publish the PlayStation Vita port of Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland Plus. All of the DLC characters from the original Atelier Totori and a new dungeon called Orthogalaxen will be included with the game. Also interesting, it…

Looking Back: Warsong, the Genesis game that beat Fire Emblem to the punch

February 26, 2013

3DS/Fire Emblem/NCS/Nintendo/Retro/Retro Reviews/Sega Genesis/Treco/Warsong

With the recent release of Fire Emblem Awakening, a lot of players are really getting their first serious look at this RPG-strategy series. There are around a dozen Fire Emblem games with the series’ first release way back in 1990, though many of those were released only in Japan. My…

Aliens vs Predator stalks iOS and Android

February 26, 2013

Aliens vs Predator/Apple/AVP Evolution/iOS

Aliens: Colonial Marines got you down? Maybe a little Aliens vs Predator is what you need. AVP: Evolution is a third-person action title on the way for iOS and Android from Fox Digital Entertainment and Angry Mob Games (Predators) that actually sounds kind of neat. Now you might be thinking that…

Review: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3)

February 25, 2013

Level-5/Namco Bandai Games/PlayStation/PS3/review/Second Opinion/Studio Ghibli

In our original Ni No Kuni review, our Editor-in-Chief, Matt Sainsbury, awarded the title a perfect score in his glowing review. The intention of this second opinion review isn’t to criticise the game or the differences in our opinions of it, but to share the experience from another perspective. Just…

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