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Good news Nintendo fans! 3DS and Wii U accounts will be unified

July 9, 2012

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This is something we’ve been asking for for a while now, but good to see Nintendo being progressive: your Wii U and 3DS will work off a unified account. A report over at Games Industry confirms that players will likely be able to transfer data – including games – back…

Review: Rainbow Moon (PS3)

July 9, 2012

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I could summarise a review of Rainbow Moon in five words: “do you like level grinding?” That would be a very short review, though, so here’s the long-winded version: So, do you like level grinding? Rainbow Moon is all about it – it’s entirely about it, and in many ways…

Review: Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 (PC)

July 9, 2012

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I am a huge fan of Magic: The Gathering. I first started playing back in early college around 1994 – so I’ve seen a lot of the game’s earliest cards. Eventually my friends and I graduated from college and moved on and lacked the ability to play the game anymore.…

Review: A Game of Thrones (PC)

July 8, 2012

A Game of Thrones/action RPG/PC/Reviews/RPG/Steam

Game of Thrones is a title I was really looking forward to because I am a fan of the books and television show, but then the initial reviews came out and most of them were middling – some downright hard on the game. I think what you will get out…

The weekend discussion: “Do you buy DLC? And if so, what?”

July 6, 2012

DLC/weekly chat

This weekend’s discussion comes courtesy of a comment left by our good friend Chalgyr yesterday. There’s obviously a lot of DLC out there, some good, some bad. Some bad DLC you end up buying anyway because it’s for a good game. I’m sure there’s a case out there somewhere where…

video-killing-floor-gets-its-second

July 6, 2012

Killing Floor/PC/Steam/Tripwire Interactive

While considered average by the majority of the gaming press at its launch, Killing Floor still has a very active community. It’s incredibly easy to find full servers and it’s one of the few games that does one game mode very well. Tripwire Interactive, the development studio that picked up…

dlc-debate-why-dont-gamers-want

July 6, 2012

DLC/Opinion/Theatrhythm

I’m a big fan of Theatrhythm. It’s a game project with a lot of soul, and reviews across the board – mine and the response on Metacritic has, so far, been very positive indeed: 80 aggregate score from critics, and 97 from users (at time of print). As a games journalist,…

Retro review: Castlevania Adventure (3DS Virtual Console)

July 6, 2012

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Here it is. Quite possibly the most reviled Castlevania game of all time (yes, even more than that woeful fighting game, or the terrible Nintendo 64 games), Castlevania Adventure, has arrived on the Nintendo 3DS eShop Virtual Console. Perhaps understanding just how bad the reputation for this game is, it’s…

The Nintendo Download is all 8-bit

July 5, 2012

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Well, maybe not all 8-bit, but with a pair of NES classics kicking off the company’s 8-bit Summer- it feels like 1989 all over again. I kinda split the difference there with the dates, in actuality this week’s pair of NES games posting to the 3DS’ eShop were released in…

its-summer-of-arcade-movie

July 5, 2012

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So everybody knows the Xbox’s annual Summer of Arcade promotion. Well now Microsoft has put a little animated short together to showcase 2012’s edition. That was probably cooler than it had any right to be, no? The Summer of Arcade kicks off with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD on July…

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