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The Friday Ten: Ten games that deserve a (much) better reputation

April 17, 2020

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List by Matt S. It’s been a while since we did a Friday Ten, but I figured that since we’re all self isolating, now would be a good time to highlight some games to play that you may well have missed previously. Unfortunately there are more than a few releases…

Review: Boot Hill Bounties (Nintendo Switch)

April 17, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Boot Hill Bounties is disappointing. Here is a fresh new JRPG – my favourite genre – being released onto Switch at a time that COVID-19 is forcing us all to self isolate, and therefore I have plenty of time to get stuck into it. What makes…

Psychological horror game, The Inner Friend, lands on PS4 and Xbox One soon

April 16, 2020

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News by Matt S. The Inner Friend hasn’t been a commercial hit just yet. It was released on Steam back in September 2018 and to date only has 27 Steam user reviews. Nonetheless, it has met with some acclaim from the media and game show events, so perhaps this upcoming…

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April 16, 2020

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News by Matt S. You may have noticed that SEGA has slowly by steadily been increasing the range of its SEGA Ages series on Nintendo Switch – console specific ports of very high quality developed by retro specialists M2. The next one in the series will land on April 30,…

Dead or Alive 6: Schoolgirl uniforms and the final hurrah?

April 16, 2020

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Video by Matt S. All good things come to an end. For Dead or Alive 6 it seems like it came to an end far too soon, with Koei Tecmo announcing that the new DLC that was released this week will be the end of it. I know, I know,…

Get ready for even more Picross on your Nintendo Switch

April 15, 2020

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News by Matt S. Like Picross? Of course you do. “Number crosswords” as they’re colloquially known, Picross is the kind of puzzle experience that feels immensely rewarding. You finish a Sudoku puzzle and it’s just… done. Same goes for crosswords. But with Picross, you finish the puzzle, you get to…

Review: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 15, 2020

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Review by Matt S. One of the best things that Koei Tecmo has going for it is how adaptable its Warriors (Musou) formula is. Whether it’s medieval history (Samurai Warriors), ancient history (Dynasty Warriors), or any of a wide and growing range of anime and licensed game properties (Gundam, Arslan,…

Video games do a terrible job of depicting war

April 15, 2020

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Video by Matt S. A recent article on Kotaku had me thinking about the way that video games depict war again, and I realised that I haven’t actually done a video where I consolidate all my thoughts into how war is treated as a subject yet. And so now I’ve…

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April 14, 2020

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News by Matt S. We’re getting closer to the release of Little Hope, the second in the Dark Pictures horror anthology by Supermassive Games (the first being Man of Medan). To get people good and excited, Supermassive Games has released a trailer for the new game, as well as some…

Sakura Wars: SEGA is on to a winner

April 14, 2020

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Video by Matt S. For SEGA’s next release, the company has decided to take one of its most beloved properties in Japan, Sakura Wars, and finally localise it for the western market. This new one is something of a “reboot” of the series, though of course we don’t really know…

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