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The Friday Ten: The ten best strategy games ever. EVER!

July 15, 2016

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List by Matt S. As much as everyone knows I love my JRPG and music games, a genre fewer people are aware that I love is the strategy genre. Especially serious strategy games. Indeed, when you boil the respective genres down, it’s not really surprising that a person that enjoys…

Summer Anime 2016: Spirits, psychosis, death, revenge, and…unemployment

July 15, 2016

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Article by Clark A. This summer season isn’t about fun in the sun but the return of several key shows that have taken a breather – we’re talking everything from Berserk to D.Gray-man to, uh, Love Live. Rather than highlight the many sequels well worth your time, though, we’ll be…

Review: The Slaughter – Act One (Apple iPad)

July 15, 2016

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Review by Lindsay M. It is late at night. The sky has fallen dark and the streets have lost their daytime bustle. In an alley behind a grubby bar, barely lit, one man is on the ground as two stand above him. One of the standing men is short, his…

Review: Dex: Enhanced Version (Sony PlayStation 4)

July 14, 2016

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Review by Matt S. So, I got to review two cyberpunk games in one week. As a fan of cyberpunk, I’m happy with that. And, as a cyberpunk fan I was very happy with The Technomancer, which, for all the negative press it has been getting, is actually a really…

Nintendo rebooting 80s childhoods with the Nintendo Classic Mini: NES

July 14, 2016

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News by Lindsay M. Call it a money-grabber all you want, I’m happy to hand Nintendo over my hard-earned cash for the Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System. Instead of launching anything substantial for this year’s holiday season, this is what Nintendo is putting forth. Due for release in Australia…

Games with Purpose; on making a game to teach us about antibiotic resistance

July 14, 2016

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Review by Matt S. Superbugs is a game that looks so very simple. You’re presented with a petri dish, and then tasked with killing multiplying bacteria as a clock ticks down. Keep them at bay long enough and a new antibiotic will be developed, killing them all, and then the…

Early Access Preview: SpiritSphere (PC)

July 14, 2016

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Review by Harvard L. A Legend of Zelda fangame to a T, SpiritSphere is a small local multiplayer title developed by one man studio Eendhoorn Games (on a tablet!) which remixes old school NES adventure game sensibilities with all the craziness of air hockey. In SpiritSphere, the goal is to…

Review: The Technomancer (Sony PlayStation 4)

July 13, 2016

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Review by Matt S. The idea of people melded with machine, and the moral and ethical ramifications of bringing the two together, is hardly a new concept in literature, film or games. That’s not to say it’s not a relevant topic to address, though. Indeed, with what was once complete…

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July 13, 2016

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News by Lindsay M. I know, I know: I’m falling for the news-about-news trend that I have been known to hate. But when the news about upcoming news is regarding Persona 5 all hate goes out the window. Persona 5’s Japanese website has launched a series of countdown timers that…

on-beauty-and-overwatch-blizzards

July 13, 2016

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Opinion by Matt S. Overwatch has proven to be a rare beast indeed; an online-only, competitive multiplayer shooter that I can’t get out of my head… or, indeed, stop playing. The only other shooter that I’ve even continued playing after publishing a review of in quite some time was Splatoon,…

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