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Review: Battlefield: Hardline (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 19, 2015

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When I was recently talking to some of the development team at Visceral, the studio behind Battlefield: Hardline, in the lead up to the release of the game, I couldn’t help but ask them whether the events over in Ferguson had impacted on the development of Battlefield: Hardline or not.…

A couple of important updates regarding Atelier Shallie and Dead or Alive 5: Last Round

March 19, 2015

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We’ve got some good news to share regarding two recent Koei Tecmo games, that will make fans very happy (we assume). First up is Atelier Shallie. A game that I awarded a well-deserved 5/5 score to sadly shipped with a major bug that meant that going into a certain menu…

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March 19, 2015

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Compile Heart is coming to the PlayStation 4 with Omega Quintet, and it’s a game that could only be described as “a Compile Heart game.” The summary, as outlined in the press release: Key Features Power of music! Harness the power of song to defeat evil! Every fight is a…

Gadget Review: Venom Arcade Stick

March 19, 2015

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If you’re serious enough about your fighting games, then the standard controller for your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation 4 is simply not going to cut it. It’s not the case that you can’t play a fighting game on a conventional gamepad, but it’s a simple matter of experience – there…

Review: Sid Meier’s Starships (Apple iPad)

March 18, 2015

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Sid Meier’s Starships is so poor it actually physically hurts me. That a man that has been so foundational to the strategy genre would lend his name to nonsense like this is nothing short of depressing. I am of course talking about Sid Meier, who was responsible for the Civilization…

Preview: Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire (PC)

March 18, 2015

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Aussie developer, Whale Hammer Games, has some big shoes to fill with its upcoming strategy RPG, Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire. Promising an epic, sweeping story and gorgeous hand drawn art, it’s easy to see where Tahira’s appeal would lie. The game is still in a very early development…

Review: Towncraft (PC)

March 18, 2015

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While the original Minecraft creators were responsible for a phenomenon, whenever I load it up it doesn’t quite resonate with me. Enter Towncraft. Instead of simply acquiring resources and building whatever comes to mind, as you’re encouraged to do in Minecraft, here you’ll instead acquire materials and build an economy…

Review: Bladestorm: Nightmare (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 17, 2015

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I never thought that Koei Tecmo would return to the Bladestorm franchise. After releasing the original early in the PlayStation 3 life cycle (so early that trophies hadn’t been implemented yet), it quickly became a largely forgotten cult hit, and with no real indication that Koei Tecmo was happy with…

Nintendo goes mobile; good move, about time

March 17, 2015

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Nintendo held a joint conference with mobile phone specialist developer, DeNA today. Why would it do this? To announce a partnership that would see Nintendo franchises appear on mobile platforms. Nintendo and DeNA will work together to produce these games, and you’ll need to be a member of a service…

Review: Shelter 2 (PC)

March 17, 2015

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Shelter 2 is the imaginatively-titled sequel to the original, Shelter which was released back in 2013. In that game you were playing as a mother badger, trying to protect her young. This time around you are taking on the role of a mother Lynx, who, you guessed it, is trying…

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