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Recap: The road to PlayStation 5 3/19/2020

March 18, 2020

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News by Lindsay M. It’s time to finally learn more about what Sony’s PlayStation 5 will offer! On the PS Blog but mostly via a YouTube video, lead system architect Mark Cerny is here to explain how the PS5 will “shape the future of games,” according to PlayStation. A lot…

Recap: Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase 3/17/2020

March 17, 2020

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News by Lindsay M. It’s time for a Nintendo Indie World Showcase! Today’s edition was chock full of (mostly) timed exclusives and loads of international teams, and is sure to get you excited for what’s coming to the Nintendo Switch this year. Note that all seasons are Northern, so if…

Persona 5 Royal: I love this game but…

March 17, 2020

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Video by Matt S. Persona 5 Royal is the “.5” version of Persona 5, which brings some 30 hours more gameplay into the base game, which was already very bloated. The base game is wonderful, and the new additions that the sequel bring are every bit as good. And yet,…

Review: Persona 5 Royal (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 17, 2020

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Review by Matt S. If there was one thing that Persona 5 did not need, it was more content. In the three years or so since that game released, I have highlighted it over an over again as the epitome of how, in video games, the push towards giving players…

Review: MLB The Show 20 (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 17, 2020

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Review by Matt S. It’s particularly hard to review sports titles – especially those that have annual iterations. Just what do you talk about when the improvements from one to the next are largely tweaks around the edges, and veterans are going to either buy the game or not before…

MLB The Show 20: I love this game! But…

March 17, 2020

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Video by Matt S. I do indeed like sports games, which I know surprises some people given what I generally play and talk about, but I do make a habit of keeping an eye on most of the major sports games properties out there, and of those, Sony’s MLB: The…

Retro reflections: Nintendo’s magnificent Art Style series

March 17, 2020

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Retro by Matt S. It’s been a while since I last did a retro reflections, but I was recently in a nostalgic mood, so I dusted off my DSi to play some of the DSiWare titles that I found so fascinating back in the day. As a side note, it…

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March 16, 2020

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News by Matt S. I do love my minimalist aesthetic, and Fights in Tight Spaces has that in spades. In development by Ground Shatter, and to be published by Mode 7, this is a deck-building, turn-based tactical game, with a really slick aesthetic and production values. You’ll acquire a deck…

Review: NinNinDays (Nintendo Switch)

March 16, 2020

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Review by Matt S. I’ve said this more times than should be necessary, but I’ll need to say it here again: developers, if you’re looking to localise a visual novel into another language, then for the love of all things holy, find a quality localisation outfit to do it. There…

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March 16, 2020

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Video by Harvard L. With a name like “Kana Quest” and the promise that you’ll learn the basics of the Japanese alphabets by playing, you could be mistaken for thinking that this is a game directly out of Japan… but no. Kana Quest is actually an Australian production, and it’s…

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