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Trailer: Nobunaga’s Ambition on PlayStation 4 still looks amazing

June 3, 2015

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One of the most exciting announcements from Koei Tecmo recently has been that it is finally localising a Nobunaga’s Ambition game. After a very long wait from the last English Nobunaga’s Ambition, Sphere of Influence is landing on our PlayStation 4s in September, and we can’t wait. Sphere of Influence…

Interview: On Toren, art, and why Brazil’s Government is showing the world how to develop modern creative industries

June 3, 2015

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A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Toren, a new, independent game from Brazil, and I was completely blown away by it. It’s the kind of arthouse game that very much speaks to me, and is part of a growing body of evidence that game developers from all over the…

Review: Dirty Bomb (PC)

June 2, 2015

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Dirty Bomb is a fresh take on the FPS genre, despite a name suggesting something very generic. It’s a bit of a throwback to faster paced shooters such as Team Fortress and Quake but it also has an much greater focus on teamwork that many other, similar games. Visually the…

Review: Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy (Sony PlayStation Vita)

June 2, 2015

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The dungeon crawler has been going through something of a renaissance recently. As the star of Wizardry and Might & Magic has faded (at least, compared to the dominant franchises they once were), we’ve seen a number of Japanese developers do some really interesting things with the genre to revitalise…

Trailer: Gust’s Yoru no Nai Kuni is everything we wanted from Gust on PlayStation 4

June 2, 2015

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Koei Tecmo has released a short, minute-long trailer giving us the slighest teaser into its first project on the PlayStation 4. Surprise, surprise, it looks incredible. As we noted when the game was announced, this project is a collaboration with Koei Tecmo’s veteran producer, Keisuke Kikuchi, and Gust’s development team,…

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June 2, 2015

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One of my great uncompleted goals in life is to start (and complete) an RPG Maker game that I’m actually interested in sharing with other people. I keep trying, I really do, but the thing about RPG Maker is that making a game actually takes a lot of time (funny…

Understanding Final Fantasy X; its three key philosophical underpinnings

June 1, 2015

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With the recent re-release of Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation 4, I’ve had an excuse to play the game yet again. I’m not quite sure how many times I’ve actually played Final Fantasy X through since my first run on the PlayStation 2, but it’s surely more than a…

Review: Desktop Dungeons (Apple iPad)

June 1, 2015

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Desktop Dungeons is brilliant. It is so incredibly simple, and so incredibly basic, and yet it is brilliant. Brilliance. Genius. It’s going to be one of the finest games you could ever play on your iPad, and sadly it’s going to be completely overlooked because it’s also being sold for…

Dragon Quest XI on PlayStation 4 false report causes Square Enix stock price to leap through the roof

June 1, 2015

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Dragon Quest is a big deal in Japan. A very big deal. For example, there’s a reason that there’s that popular urban rumour that the Japanese government outlawed the release of a Dragon Quest game on a school/ work day: each new “proper” game in the series really does sell…

Review: Schrodinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 31, 2015

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Ah, that difficult old beast that is comedy. One of the challenges in building a comedic game is that no one has the same sense of humour, and what is funny to one person (or group of people) is not necessarily funny to another. Worse, if a comedy isn’t funny,…

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