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The art game canon: On Clock Tower 3 and sexual awakening

August 11, 2016

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Game Theory by Matt S. Unless you’re right into ultra-niche horror games, and have been for a while, it is very unlikely that you’ve played – or even heard of – Clock Tower 3. Released to little fanfare on the PlayStation 2 and doomed to immediate obscurity from middling reviews,…

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August 11, 2016

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Hello dear readers! We like to do a reader’s survey a couple of times each year, because it lets us know what our readers come here for, what we’re doing well, what we could do better, and what we could do that we’re not doing already. In other words, we…

Review: Orc Slayer (Sony PlayStation 4)

August 10, 2016

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Review by Matt S. I hope Metacritic doesn’t hate me too much for doing this, because I’m not sure its grading scale actually allows for this, but Orc Slayer is the sorriest excuse for a game that I have ever played, with no exceptions, Yes, that includes stuff like Superman…

Slaughter fantasy game, Mother Russia Bleeds, gets new trailer and release date

August 10, 2016

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News by Matt S. You’ve got to hand it to the French; they really do know their transgressive art. A new game, in development by Paris-based startup Le Cartel, is promising something truly… extreme… in terms of its content. To be published by Devolver Digital on September 5 on PC,…

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August 10, 2016

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News by Matt S. Some good news out of Australia today; Armello, the utterly brilliant little digital board game, is finally coming to the Microsoft Xbox One. But, even better than that (for those of us that already own the game on PlayStation 4), there’s an extensive DLC pack on…

Review: Human: Fall Flat (PC)

August 10, 2016

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Review by Trent P. Almost like a game about a porcelain doll, Human: Fall Flat lets you take control over a character with a bright white, flat textured body. Comparing the character with a fragile emotionless object is an apt description in what the game wants to achieve, too. Related…

The Australian censors target the Japanese. Again

August 9, 2016

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Really Freaking Annoyed by Matt S. Only a couple of weeks after the Australian Classification Board decided to get ideological and ban MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death for utterly arbitrary reasons, the puritans are at it again and have now refused classification to Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkuni. Related reading: My report on…

Gadget Review: SCUF Gaming Infinity 4PS for Sony PlayStation 4

August 9, 2016

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Gadget review by Nick H. Custom controllers designed to provide competitive players with an advantage are hardly a new thing. I recall all too clearly the first time I used an NES Advantage with its big, arcade-like joystick and turbo option for rapid fire button presses. That being said, controllers…

Review: Risk: Urban Assault (Sony PlayStation 4)

August 9, 2016

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Review by Matt S. My relationship with the classic board game, Risk, is a complex one. On the one hand, I do love the game on principle; it’s a board game, and I like board games. As social platforms to engage the mind, I believe that board games fulfill a…

Dead or Alive 5: Last Round kicks off a fifth season of DLC costumes today

August 9, 2016

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News by Matt S. Dead or Alive 5 has surely been a spectacular money spinner for Koei Tecmo. The original game was released four years ago now, back in 2012, and since then we’ve seen no less of three re-releases of that game, DLC characters, and an endless supply of…

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