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Review: FIFA 13 (PS3)

October 10, 2012

EA Sports/FIFA 13/PlayStation/PlayStation 3/Reviews/Soccer/Sports

The FIFA World Cup is the world’s biggest sporting event. It actually eclipses the Olympics in terms of overall attendance and viewers. So it makes sense that the greatest investments in sports game development is in soccer. EA’s FIFA Soccer and Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) enjoy a relationship where…

Game bundles of the moment 10-10-12: Double action ultimate comeback

October 10, 2012

Batman Arkham City/Costume Quest/Double Fine Productions/F.E.A.R./Game Bundles Of The Moment/PC/Steam

Hello and welcome back to Game Bundles Of The Moment! This feature highlights several discounted game bundles in a weekly manner. Well, this feature would technically be considered “Weekly” if not for the fact that both Torchlight II and Borderlands 2 had entered a certain reviewer’s life (hint; mine) three…

samus-zelda-and-peach-women-and-sexism

October 10, 2012

gender politics/Nintendo/Opinion/Peach/Samus/sexism/Zelda

Recently a really interesting discussion topic emerged over at the NintendoLife forums: it started with a simple question “what if Link was a girl?” and evolved into a broader discussion about Nintendo and its approach to gender in its games. It’s a long discussion, but let’s boil it down to…

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October 10, 2012

Apple/Flying Hamster/Free

The Game Atelier’s super adorable, yet challenging horizontal shooter, Flying Hamster, is not to be missed. We scored the PS Mini version of the game a whopping 4.5/5 stars here at Digitally Downloaded in our Five Awesome Minis; mini reviews! piece. Simply put, it’s overly charming and well worth your…

Review: Pokemon Black/ White 2 (3DS)

October 9, 2012

JRPG/Nintendo/Nintendo 3DS/Pokemon/Reviews

I’m not sure how Nintendo and Game Freak manage to do this: over and over again they repackage the same game and convince us all it’s worth playing again. Pokemon Black and White 2 add the barest minimum of new features over the top of the game engine that has…

The battle begins in the Of Orcs and Men’s launch trailer

October 9, 2012

Focus Home Interactive/News/PC/PS3/Xbox 360

The Empire of Men has oppressed the orcs and goblins for far too long now. Playing as one of the oppressed orcs, you’ve been tasked with the deadly assignment to end the human’s life that’s caused your kinds suffering for so long now. Can you survive the arduous task that’s been set…

The Splatters – on sale this week on Xbox Live

October 9, 2012

Microsoft Xbox 360/Microsoft Xbox Live/the splatters

The Splatters was a fun little game that not a lot of people had heard about prior to its release. Matt wrote up a great review for it, scoring it four out of five stars here, if you would like to read it. What is The Splatters? A bright and…

Photo Gallery: Cosplay at EB World Expo

October 8, 2012

Cosplay/EB World Expo/photo gallery

Always good to see Pokemon around. Gotta catch ’em all (on film) One of the big features from this year’s EB World Expo was the cosplay. There were plenty of cosplay competitions, and plenty of cosplayers. So what better way to start our photo galleries of the event than with…

EB World Expo – a tale of a wonderful gaming community

October 8, 2012

convention/Cosplay/EB World Expo/Opinion

We tend to see a lot of negative press about the gaming community. From the controversy over sexism in the fighting game community, to other accusations of sexism towards female games journalists at the E3 2012 convention, and of course the persistent issue of the behaviour of the community of games…

Star Wars: First Assault info leaks out

October 7, 2012

lucasarts/Star Wars: First Assault/XBLA/Xbox 360

What exactly First Assault is we’re not sure, but Star Wars fans are definitely going to have something new to play on Xbox Live. Don’t get too excited just yet, because there’s absolutely nothing to go on at the moment except the box art. And it’s pretty clear that Lucasarts…

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