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June 12, 2018

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News by Matt C. The creators of Dark Souls and Bloodborne are back with their next game, and rather than another gothic European setting (or the sci-fi game some were hoping for), FromSoftware are turning their attention to the Sengoku period of Japanese history. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice follows a…

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June 11, 2018

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What an eclectic bunch of games we’ve got to talk about this week! First up, we talk about Dead or Alive 6, which was announced just hours before we recorded the podcast. Then we talk about Vampires, in light of the release of Vampyr by Dontnod. And, finally, we talk…

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June 11, 2018

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News by Lindsay M. Ubisoft: the press conference consisting of a lot of music and that happens between the two that I was/am actually excited for, Square Enix and Sony. Yet here we are, so let’s see how it goes! The obvious bets are Just Dance 2019, Assassin’s Creed, and…

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June 11, 2018

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News by Harvard L. Metro has always been a black sheep when it came to the FPS genre. The original game released in 2010 and stood as a harsh counterpoint to popular design at the time: a melancholic world where guns were rickety, unreliable contraptions and proper bullets were valuable…

e3-2018-square-enix-showcase-recap

June 11, 2018

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News by Lindsay M. It’s day three of four of our press conference coverage, and it’s the busiest yet! Starting things off with a hopeful bang is Square Enix; while all eyes seem to be on the developer/publisher for Final Fantasy VII, I’m actually most curious as to whether we’ll…

Review: Samurai Defender: Ninja Warfare (Nintendo Switch)

June 11, 2018

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Review by Matt S. Samurai Defender is the kind of aggressively pointless experience that I find frustrating beyond all else. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s also not memorable in the slightest, and while I don’t expect every video game ever made to be a masterpiece, I do think…

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June 11, 2018

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News by Harvard L. A day before E3 I saw a tweet jokingly asking that the only thing they want to see at this year’s convention was genuine human emotion. Thanks to Cornelia Geppert and Jo-Mei Games, the team behind Sea of Solitude, we not only got that, we got…

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June 11, 2018

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News by Harvard L. We’ve seen our fair share of wastelands this E3, from urban, to nuclear, to zombified, but none could be described as beautiful until now. There are few games on show this year which are truly eye-catching, and then along comes Sable which expresses the simple joy…

VIDEO: Dead Or Alive 6 drops sex for violence… Is this the right move?

June 11, 2018

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Video by Matt S. Okay, so we now have the first details of Dead of Alive 6, and one of the very first things the game producer said about it is that Koei Tecmo has taken big steps to tone down the sex. Meanwhile, they’ve massively upped the violence, what…

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June 11, 2018

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News by Clark A. That J-Stars Victory VS got a worldwide release was a miracle. Watching decades of manga characters from Shounen Jump magazine duke it out is the stuff dreams are made of. Despite the all the ingredients for delicious fanservice seeming to be in place, though, our editor-in-chief…

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