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Review: Mother Russia Bleeds (PC)

September 21, 2016

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Review by Hamza A. Like how G.K. Chesterton once said of R.L. Stevenson, “he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins”, I too can say precisely the same of Devolver Digital. Except the only difference would be replacing the…

Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (Sony PlayStation 3)

September 21, 2016

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Review by Matthew C. Note: This review contains spoilers to the first game, and you should play the first game before playing this. This is your advanced warning, if you don’t want the plot to the first game spoiled going in (though why you haven’t played it already is beyond…

Tokyo Game Show gallery #1: The men, women, and weird characters manning the booths

September 21, 2016

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Tourism by Matt S. One of the features of Tokyo Game Show over the years has been the booth ‘babes,’ or women and men that are dressed up in costume (or, often, dressed down to as little as possible) in order to manage the booths, help players get into the…

Review: One Way Trip (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 20, 2016

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Review by Matt C. One Way Trip is like videogames’ answer to the stoner road trip movie – those classic films like Up in Smoke, Harold and Kumar, and Dude, Where’s My Car?. If you take that to mean that One Way Trip is a bizarre, nonsensical trip that could…

Review: Metroid Prime: Federation Force (Nintendo 3DS)

September 20, 2016

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Review by Matt S. This was not the game that Metroid fans were looking forward to. Metroid Prime: Federation Force is clearly a game that Nintendo had thrown together on the cheap in order to fill in a gap in the release library – both for the 3DS itself, and…

The other games I trialled at Tokyo Game Show this year

September 20, 2016

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Previews by Matt S. In addition to the time I spent at the Koei Tecmo booth at Tokyo Game Show, I also took the time to go around some of the other booths and try out games that didn’t have too much of a lineup. Naturally that meant I wasn’t…

All-female protagonist September: Severed’s Sasha

September 20, 2016

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Blog by Lindsay M. I’ve been steadily making my way through Severed as September moves forward. It’s not uncommon to find me (when I should be sleeping) with my iPad in one hand while the other furiously slashes at the screen. I was stoked when Severed was released on iOS…

Retro Reflections: On one of my first hybrid genre games

September 19, 2016

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Retro reflections by Nick H. One of the really cool things my dad did for me as a kid was rent me a new NES game just about every weekend. It was a cheap way to play a lot of different games, and I’d get them finished, too, as video…

Review: Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 19, 2016

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Review by Clark A. Famed writer of anime and visual novels, Gen Urobuchi, has a penchant for dark, perverse themes. Those familiar with the man’s portfolio may label that a gross understatement as his works range from deconstructions of the innocent magical girl subgenre to relentlessly grotesque Lovecraftian horror. Though…

I toured the Koei Tecmo booth at Tokyo Game Show, and it was great

September 19, 2016

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Previews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo was kind enough to provide me an all-access booth tour at TGS this year, so that I could test out all its upcoming games without waiting in line (and, frankly, that was important because I simply didn’t have thirty minutes to wait in line…

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