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June 20, 2018

eroticism/Horror/Indie/Lust For Darkness/PC/PC Review/Reviews/Stealth/walking simulator

Review by Matt S. One of the most common thematic features in the horror genre, in literature and film, is sex. There are several reasons for this. Horror generally taps into the dominant socio-cultural features of society at the time on either a literal or metaphoric level, and certainly the…

World of Warships is coming to console

June 20, 2018

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News by Matt S. World of Tanks is a pretty popular game, if you haven’t heard of it before. It’s a free-to-play tank-em-up featuring large battle maps and plenty of truly hardcore, dedicated players. It started out as a PC title, before making its way to console, and even mobile…

the-who-has-defined-video-game

June 20, 2018

addiction/Opinion/Video Games/World Health Organization

Opinion by Matt S. Earlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally defined “video game addiction” as a diagnosable condition (the specific term is “gaming disorder”). This was always going to be a controversial decision, and there has been plenty of measured debate out there about whether video games…

furyu-has-teased-its-new-project

June 19, 2018

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News by Matt S. Miku bless FuRyu. The group behind niche gems such as Lost Dimension and The Caligula Effect might not often find commercial success, but its games are always so smart and stylish, the announcement of a new one will always get me excited. FuRyu’s next one is…

all-our-thoughts-on-e3-digitally

June 19, 2018

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E3 has come and gone for another year, and in this podcast we do a full wrap of everything we loved and wasn’t so enamoured with from the show. And that’s it – the podcast is what we loved, what we found to be a bit “meh”, and what we…

Why I hate “battle royale” games

June 19, 2018

Battle Royale/Fortnite/genre/Kinji Fukasaku/Koushun Takami/Opinion/PUBG

Opinion by Matt S. It’s impossible to get away from these battle royale games. The genre got its start with PUBG, before Fortnite really took the mantle as the blockbuster that everyone wanted to emulate. And now Call of Duty, Battlefield, and all the other hyperviolent shootybangs are desperately trying…

We have a release date for Warriors Orochi 4!

June 19, 2018

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News by Matt S. Warriors Orochi 4 is going to be great. Bringing together all the heroes from the Samurai Warriors and Dynasty Warriors franchises has always been a recipe for success, and we can’t see Koei Tecmo letting us down with this latest one. We now have a release…

Why does Square-Enix hate Itadaki Street?

June 18, 2018

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Article by Matt S. (Note: I don’t think Square Enix actually hates Itadaki Street. Hah, got you to click). I never had much hope that the 30th anniversary release of Itadaki Street – known as both Fortune Street and Boom Street in the west – would get a release outside…

Review: The Lost Child (Nintendo Switch)

June 18, 2018

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Review by Matt S. The Lost Child is an incredibly poor take on Lovecraft. H.P Lovecraft is associated with a very specific tone of horror. It’s one of elditch nightmares from the cosmos, and things better left unseen. Indeed, Lovecraft’s very finest stories never even show you the creatures of…

Review: Vampyr (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 18, 2018

Dontnod Entertainment/Horror/morality/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/RPG/vampires/Vampyr

Review by Matt S. Dontnod’s modus operandi is to put players through difficult moral choices. It was brilliantly executed in the masterful Life is Strange, but then that game was effectively a choose your own adventure. And as we all know, games without “gameplay” are immediately relegated to the hyper-niche.…

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