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Review: Dead or Alive 5: Last Round (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 17, 2015

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Dead or Alive 5 has been a complete commercial success for Koei Tecmo. And, among those critics that can look past its hyper-sexualisation, it has also been regarded well as the edition in the series that took the franchise and injected it with enough depth that it works both as…

Review: The Detail: Episode 1 Where the Dead Lie (Apple iPad)

February 17, 2015

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If you’re going to promise a noir genre game, then you should deliver one. The Detail starts well. Players find themselves thrust into a world of heavy contrast and are immediately tasked with helping two cops break into a house to apprehend someone potentially responsible for doing some very nasty…

So, let’s talk about game length and The Order

February 17, 2015

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There’s been a whole new controversy around The Order: 1886 to wade through. Before the game has even been released some YouTuber uploaded the entire game playthrough (let’s put how completely unethical that is to a side for a moment), and because that playthrough takes around five hours, people have…

Review: Harold (PC)

February 16, 2015

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Harold, the character, is not what you would consider a winner in life. He is a goofy, clumsy and somewhat dim fellow that has decided to participate in races. The problem is that every one of Harold’s opponents is far more capable than him. Harold, the game, is a winner,…

Review: IronFall Invasion (Nintendo 3DS)

February 16, 2015

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VD-dev is a small, Nintendo handheld specialist developer that has a history of making games that really push whatever hardware it is working on to its limits. It produced a two full 3D games on the Game Boy Advance (Driv3r and Asterisx and Obelix XXL); a console that was really…

Review: Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 16, 2015

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Saints Row started off as a different take on the open world Grand Theft Auto formula. Since then, the series has become progressively more oddball to the point where Saints Row IV felt more like a crazy superhero adventure than open world crime simulator. Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell…

Gadget Review: Afterglow Karga Headset

February 15, 2015

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Since the release of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, it seems far easier to find a good headset for the former than the latter. While there are some Xbox One headsets out there, almost every visit to a local gaming store shows two or three times as many…

The Friday Ten: The Top PlayStation Vita JRPGs

February 13, 2015

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The PlayStation Vita has had a difficult life to date, though it has been moderately successful in Japan, and that means one thing; it has had a lot of JRPGs developed for it. A disproportionate number of them, in fact. If there is one group of people that absolutely must…

Review: Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (Sony PlayStation 3)

February 13, 2015

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Back in 2012, Torn Banner Studios released a melee-focused first-person deathmatch game called Chivalry: Medieval Warfare on PC. It was a hit, selling something like two million copies and earning a generally positive critical response. Two years later the game’s now available on the PlayStation 3, courtesy of Torn Banner…

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation is coming sooner than you might have thought

February 13, 2015

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The good folk at Idea Factory International are busy indeed. Just a few months after the release of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2, we’ll be playing the remake of the third. That’s right, Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation is launching in Summer (that’s Winter, for those of us in the southern…

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