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Metroid Dread: Was it worth waiting 16 years for?

October 6, 2021

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Video by Matt S. Metroid Dread is a long time coming. It was originally planned to be a DS game – one of the “key” games for the console – but then dropped off the planet completely. Most people assumed that it was done and dusted… until Nintendo’s surprise announcement…

Review: Metroid Dread (Nintendo Switch)

October 6, 2021

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Review by Matt S. It’s difficult to shake the notion that Nintendo and the developers that it works with are not quite sure what to do with Metroid. The formula is, of course, of an excellent standard. An entire genre (i.e. the “Metroidvania”) doesn’t get named after a game that…

Review: Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania (Nintendo Switch)

October 6, 2021

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Review by Matt S. When you have a moment spare, go and look at a picture of the Gamecube controller. Take a close look at the analogue sticks. Notice something? If your response was “the case around the stick has eight little ridges”, then you’re looking at the biggest problem…

Ubisoft to insult Koushun Takami in producing a “battle royale” based on the work of a militant nationalist

October 6, 2021

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News by Matt S. Ubisoft has announced a “battle royale” game called Ghost Recon Frontline because, after all, the previous five million battle royales just weren’t enough for the super artistic and innovative “AAA” video game industry. It’s probably the most galling of all, though, since this one has links…

Review: Actraiser Renaissance (Nintendo Switch)

October 5, 2021

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Review by Alex Kidman. One of the biggest surprises of the most recent Nintendo Direct was the announcement of Actraiser Renaissance. Long-held as one of the early jewels of the SNES library, it was an utterly dormant IP, right up until the moment it was revealed for a quick release…

Review: Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Barons Workshop (PC)

October 5, 2021

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Ask me what my all-time favourite game is, and I’ll tell you that it’s Bubble Bobble. Ask me for my top five, and I’ll list off five different variants of Bubble Bobble before expanding my tastes out to other titles. I can’t play Bubble Bobble all the time. I mean,…

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October 5, 2021

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Impressions by Matt S. “Miku is so amazing,” goes one early line in the story that comes with Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! on mobile. She sure is, people. She sure is. Anyhow, SEGA and developer, Colorful Palette, just released Colorful Stage! for a global public beta. It will only run…

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October 5, 2021

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News by Lindsay M.If you were to ask me about what I love most, I have three answers: video games, arts, and cats. And let’s be real, those three things rarely combine, but it’s okay: when two of the three come together I consider it pure perfection. Cats knocking down…

Review: Fighting Fantasy Legends (Nintendo Switch)

October 4, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Nomad Games and Tin Man Games are a tale of two companies, and since I don’t have all that much to say about Fighting Fantasy Legends (you’ll see why soon enough), I may as well weave that tale instead. Tin Man Games started out, many years,…

Xuan-Yuan Sword VII is the case for “world games” – this is brilliant

October 4, 2021

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Video by Matt S. Xuan-Yuan Sword VII is a brilliant little RPG out of Taiwan. In playing it through I was reminded of one of the discrepancies between video games as an art form and other art forms: In other art forms we tend to encourage and promote “foreign art”…

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