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January 10, 2018

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News by Matt S. Sting’s going to be in a video game! Sadly he’s not performing Desert Rose, but still, he’s going to be a wolf, and that’s just awesome! I’d admit, I knew nothing of Good Shepherds’ Where The Water Tastes Like Wine until the press release announcing Sting’s…

Review: Fallen: A2P Protocol (Sony PlayStation 4)

January 10, 2018

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Review by Matt S. We have no shortage of stories about apocalyptic wastelands and grimy, gritty, Max Max-like action. Whether it be Fallout or Wasteland, ELEX or Mad Max itself, there’s no end of these games. It’s not surprising that Fallen: A2P Protocol wants to be one of them. Related…

Review: Tiny Metal (Nintendo Switch)

January 10, 2018

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Review by Matt S. It’s been around a decade since Nintendo allowed Intelligent Systems to produce a new Advance Wars game. Fire Emblem’s simply become the bigger and more valuable franchise, and Nintendo’s focused the developer on that series instead. Fair enough for big Fire Emblem fans like myself, but…

Review: Little Red Lie (Sony PlayStation 4)

January 9, 2018

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Review by Matt S. You’ll know you’ve played a Will O’Neill game when you find yourself feeling deflated, contemplative, or alternatively angry (or perhaps all these things at once). The creator of Actual Sunlight and, now, Little Red Lie specialises in crafting narratives that explore the way the social, cultural,…

Video: Hands on with Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]

January 9, 2018

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Video by Matt S. PQube will launch French Bread’s latest 2D fighter, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st], in early February for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 (no, really), and PlayStation Vita. We’ve got a solid month before we can run a review of the game, but we figured we’d give people a…

Review: Briks 2 – the worst game of 2018 (Sony PlayStation 4)

January 9, 2018

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Review by Matt S. We’re nine days into 2018, but I am already completely comfortable in calling this: Briks 2 is the worst game of the year. There’s nothing about this Breakout clone it that isn’t broken at a fundamental level, and to add insult to injury this game is…

Catching up with Tabata Hajime on Final Fantasy XV’s ongoing development

January 9, 2018

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Interview by Matt S. Late last year Final Fantasy XV had its first anniversary. It’s been a big year for the game, as Square Enix decided to adopt a model where the base game was really just a “hub”, and there would be a lot of additional games and experiences…

Review: Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Deluxe (Nintendo Switch)

January 8, 2018

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Review by Matt S. Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Deluxe is the kind of game that you play for a while, enjoy it while it lasts, and then, a few weeks later, forget that you’ve ever played it. It’s a game that commits no crime against game development, but neither does…

Video: The Roguelike – How we should be defining this classic genre

January 8, 2018

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Video by Matt S. I’m a massive, massive fan of the roguelike. I’ve been playing games like this as long as I’ve been playing games at all. For example, I have fond memories of losing hour after hour in my childhood to Nethack, because it was a (legally) free game…

Review: The Coma – Recut (Nintendo Switch)

January 8, 2018

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Review by Matt S. South Korea’s high performance culture has some unfortunate side effects; the expectations placed on its people leads to exceptionally high levels of pressure and stress on individuals, and when things go wrong, they go really, really wrong. Nowhere is this more evident than in the nation’s…

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