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The games of October: Good luck playing all these

September 25, 2015

You know, there’s a point where a release schedule is so packed that it’s just a little crazy. How anyone is going to be able to play (much less afford) all the games that they’ll want this month is beyond us. Because regardless of your taste in games we can…

Anime review: Love Live! School Idol Project: Season 1 (DVD)

September 25, 2015

anime/anime review/comedy/idol/Love Live!/Love Live! School Idol Project

The Japanese do love their idols. From AKB48 and onwards, just about every town and city in the country has an idol group. Some are local, and only of a couple of people. Others are the size of AKB (127 active members at a time). These groups of charmingly pretty…

Review: Etrian Mystery Dungeon (Nintendo 3DS)

September 25, 2015

3DS Review/Atlus/Etrian Mystery Dungeon/Etrian Odyssey/JRPG/Nintendo 3DS/Reviews/Roguelike

Etrian Mystery Dungeon is an appalling Etrian Odyssey game. We will get into why that is the case in a moment. And, more importantly, why that doesn’t actually matter, but to be straight up it needs to be said that this game offers very little of what people actually love…

aussie-puzzle-game-expand-gets-release

September 24, 2015

Australia/Chris Johnson/Chris Larkin/Expand/News/PC/Steam/trailer

What started as a game jam project by Chris Johnson in 2010 has slowly blossomed into a stunning, minimalist puzzle game. After 5 years of intermittent development, Johnson and his composer/collaborator Chris Larkin have finally announced that Expand will be made available September 30th on Steam, the Humble Store, and…

miku-dlc-is-making-its-way-to-persona-4

September 24, 2015

Atlus/DLC/Hatsune Miku/News/north america/Persona 4: Dancing All Night/PS Vita

MikuMikuMikuMikuMikuMiku *breath* MikuMikuMikuMikuMikuMiku! Did I mention Miku? No? How about Miku? Related reading: Matt saw Miku live in Japan. Jealous? Read all about it here. Our favourite vocaloid has been confirmed to be coming to Atlus’ Persona 4: Dancing All Night in North America via DLC. This is the same…

Review: Rugby Nations 16 (Apple iPad)

September 24, 2015

Distinctive Games/iPad Review/Reviews/Rugby/Rugby Nations 16/sports game

It can be tough to build a sports game on a budget. Complex and unwieldy messes of physics and strategy as they are, building a sports game requires a development team to have an engine that is able to respond realistically to more variables than perhaps any other genre. It…

DDNet does Japan! Day #26: The guys, girls, and characters of TGS, Part 2

September 24, 2015

booth babe/Japan/TGS/TGS 2015/Tokyo Game Show/Tour Japan/travel

One of the oddities about TGS when compared to game shows elsewhere in the world is that TGS organisers allow, if not outright encourage, “booth babes.” Every single major booth at the show had brightly costumed men and women handing out promotional material, posing for photos, and otherwise being of…

what-australias-new-arts-minister

September 24, 2015

Australia/Crikey/George Brandis/Mitch Fifield/News/politics

Those of you with a more keen interest in politics might be aware that Australia has a new Prime Minister (and I suspect all our Australian readers are aware of this, of course, since the news has been unavoidable the lat couple of days). A fellow called Malcolm Turnbull ran…

Review: NHL 16 (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 24, 2015

EA/EA Sports/ice hockey/NHL 16/PS4 Review/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4/sports game

Last year’s NHL 15 was a disappointmen as fans got their first taste of the franchise on current gen systems. The play on the ice was actually quite solid, though overly aggressive hitting and some oddities in player movement helped to break the immersion. However, releasing stripped of most of…

review-soma-pc

September 23, 2015

Frictional Games/Horror/Indie/PC/PC Review/review/Reviews/SOMA/stalker horror/Survival Horror

SOMA succeeds in creating a tense atmosphere, as you would expect from the development team behind the original Amnesia. The suspense does not always hold up as well as I would have liked, but by and large the team at Frictional Games has proven yet again that they know how…

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