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Matrix Games’ Legion marching on to the iPad

September 18, 2012

Who likes classic strategy games? Who likes iPads? Who wouldn’t like the two of them together! Matrix Games might or might not be a name you recognise, but they’re the minds behind one of the few genuine, hardcore wargames on the iPad so far – Battle Academy. That was a…

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September 18, 2012

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Gree is not a well-known name in the west, but when it does something, people should take notice. The Japanese giant acquired OpenFeint not too long ago, and now it has extended its reach further, snapping up App Ant Studios. Gree has the goal of reaching one billion users worldwide.…

Dishonored trailer theme released as free download

September 18, 2012

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How do you handle a drunken whaler, how do you handle a drunken whaler, how do you handle a drunken whaler early in the mornin’? …I don’t know- give ’em a free song? A contest maybe? Arrr- The Drunken Whaler (the score to the E3 trailer for Bethesda and Arkane studios’…

Bad Piggies trailer reveals the intellect of swines

September 18, 2012

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If you’ve found yourself growing tired of Rovio’s numerous expansions to digital success story Angry Birds, perhaps you’ll be pleased to see how different its spin-off, Bad Piggies, plays. One could describe the gameplay as the antithesis to Angry Birds. Whilst our enraged fowl friends merely aimed to destroy the…

Rock Band celebrates five years with a DLC sale

September 18, 2012

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Are you itching for new tracks to play in the recently released Rock Band Blitz? If so, you’re in luck. Harmonix is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the rhythmic franchise with a mega sale. No fewer than 1,100 downloadable tracks will be available with the majority weighing in at half the…

Review: Bookstore Dream (3DS)

September 18, 2012

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Hello there Circle. We’ve missed you for the past couple of weeks while you were busy cooking up your next work of plagiarism… uh, homage to another developer. Or not. It saddens me that developers and publishers get away with this, because Kairosoft, the developers behind the wonderful Game Dev…

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September 17, 2012

Double Dragon Neon/PSN/Xbox Live

Gnarly news guys’n’gals, the eighty’s-tastic soundtrack to Double Dragon Neon is now live and in living color on the game’s website. It’s like an online mix-tape- a free online mix-tape. If you don’t know, publisher Majesco and Reverb’s revival of beat’em up grandaddy Double Dragon is basically a tribute to…

Go to the Edge of Space and fight some sharks

September 17, 2012

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Yes friends, the dream of sharks with frikkin’ lasers on their heads is now a reality. At least, as far as videogames it is. Handyman Studios has a very interesting little project on their hands with Edge of Space. The game (which was just kickstarted and signed by Reverb publishing)…

Dragon Age III: Inquisition announced

September 17, 2012

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There has been speculation for a few months now, but today BioWare has confirmed that Dragon Age 3: Inquisition should arrive sometime late in 2012. Aaryn Flynn, the general manager of BioWare Edmonton and Montreal says the team has be working on this title for close to two years and…

Review: New Art Academy (3DS)

September 17, 2012

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Back when the Nintendo DS was riding high and the iPhone and iPad were relatively minor blips on the home entertainment radar, Nintendo’s touch screen console saw a fair few releases that were not really games but rather what would later be known as “apps.” Art Academy was one of…

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