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Look, ma! I was on a podcast to talk about the next gen!

November 24, 2020

News by Matt S. A short little story here, but Hope and James, the really kind folks at Video Game Small Talk invited me on to their podcast, along with Alex Walker from Kotaku Australia and Joab Gilroy from The GAP, to talk about our experiences with the new generation…

The Game Awards: Why we need better

November 24, 2020

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Video by Matt S. It’s that time of year again. The Game Awards are imminent, and that means we can all sit back and bask in the glow of “the game industry’s Academy Awards”… or can we? The Game Awards is a big issue for the ongoing artistic credibility of…

Hardware Review: Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2

November 24, 2020

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Review by Matt S. A new console means a new opportunity for third parties to release stuff that works with those new consoles. The PlayStation 5 has a genuinely impressive array of features, from the speed of SSD storage under the hood through to a controller that brings some interesting…

So, Square Enix is finally making a sequel to The World Ends With You

November 23, 2020

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News by Matt S. It is one of Square Enix’s most enduring properties, and yet, for the longest time the company has resisted doing more than a single game in it. That’s all about to change, however, with the company announcing NEO: The World Ends With You. Related reading: Our…

Review: QV (Nintendo Switch)

November 23, 2020

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Review by Clark A. Based on QV’s opening and eShop description, you’d be forgiven for expecting an isometric puzzle game with the scope of an epic. They hype up the last member of a chosen lineage and her duty to prevent the collapse of the entire universe. This is technically…

Interesting games on itch.io: November 23

November 23, 2020

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List by Matt S. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows…

Review: Azurebreak Heroes (Nintendo Switch)

November 23, 2020

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Review by Harvard L. Azurebreak Heroes is a solid little game which proved a formidable distraction to be over the past week. Developed solo by Piotr Powroziewicz and ported to the Switch by Silesia Games, it’s an action RPG with randomly generated elements, and a gameplay loop reminiscent of Risk…

Review: Serious Sam Collection (Nintendo Switch)

November 20, 2020

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Review by Matt S. At the start of the week, I reviewed the latest in the Call of Duty series; a flaming piece of nationalist trash set during the Cold War. I’ll wrap this week up with a review of games that I wish represented the FPS genre; the Serious…

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November 20, 2020

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News by Matt S. The Civilization VI season pass is turning out to be excellent value. Every two months you get new civs to play as, meaning that as you wrap one campaign up you can start playing as something new immediately (yes, it takes me months to finish Civilization…

Review: Pure Pool (Nintendo Switch)

November 20, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Ball porn. That’s right. That’s how I’m opening this review. Ball porn. We often use “XXXX porn” to describe a game that is so meticulous in its recreation of a real-world object that it almost seems to fetishise that object. It’s usually something we use in…

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