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Preview: Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

October 21, 2020

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Preview by Matt S. I never played Astebreed, the previous game from the two-person team behind the upcoming Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. Astebreed didn’t really look like my thing,t but a game that promises to delve into Japan’s mythology and cultural passion for rice certainly is, and based on…

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin – Why I love this game

October 20, 2020

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Preview by Matt S. Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a 2D platformer… but it’s also so much more than that. It’s a surprisingly complex rice-growing simulator, and that side of it is something of deep cultural value and meaning to the Japanese. With the preview embargo for the game…

poker-club-gets-release-date

October 20, 2020

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News by Matt S. Poker Club, the Ripstone Games-published “big-budget” poker title, has a release date. It will land on November 19, across just about every platform – PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. For some reason Nintendo Switch players will need to wait until…

Review: Onee Chanbara Origin (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 20, 2020

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Review by Matt S. I like grindhouse B-grade horror. It’s a genre I grew up deriving a great deal of joy from. I like bikinis. They are a nice aesthetic (seriously, as controversial as this has become to say, women in swimwear are pleasant to look at). I like anime.…

How good is Balan Wonderworld looking?

October 20, 2020

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News by Matt S. Balan Wonderworld is an upcoming game from Square Enix, belonging to an all-new property. Helmed by Naka Yuji (former head of Sonic Team), the game does very much look like it will have the whimsy and energy of Sonic Team at its best (and will hopefully…

want-another-trailer-for-hyrule

October 19, 2020

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News by Matt S. Is there any game more exciting on the horizon than Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity? I didn’t think so. Nintendo has been dropping trailers regularly in the lead up to its release on November 20 (just one month away!), and this newest one looks like good…

Review: Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (Nintendo Switch)

October 19, 2020

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Review by Matt S. It would be a big stretch to suggest that Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders is a classic of the point-and-click genre. It has its fans, but it’s niche enough to be one of the stranger ports that we’ve seen to Nintendo Switch. The original game is…

postal-is-it-really-transgressive-game

October 19, 2020

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Video by Matt S. I’d never played a Postal game before these last couple of weeks, but thankfully the “remake” of the original, notorious, game on Nintendo Switch gave me a chance to experience it. As a fan of transgressive art, I was very keen to look at why this…

Interesting games on itch.io: October 19

October 19, 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-liege-dragon-nintendo-sw

October 16, 2020

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Review by Matt S. I have been pretty hard on Kemco’s JRPGs in the past. They get churned out at such an intense rate that it’s hard not to be annoyed by the amateurish nature of them. If the developers just spent time working on the narrative to deliver something…

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