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February 12, 2015

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Dark Souls II was a difficult game for me. I certainly enjoyed it (as you can see from my review), but by the same token I found myself challenged by the progression of the franchise. As a hardcore fan of From Software’s King’s Field franchise, I enjoyed the way Demon’s…

Review: Lords of Xulima (PC)

February 12, 2015

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Had someone told me Lords of Xulima is a remake of a forgotten SNES game, and I didn’t know better, I would have believed them. Similarities to the more gorgeous titles of the 16 and 32 bit era are unmistakable – even though this game runs in the same vein…

Review: Don Bradman Cricket (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 12, 2015

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For long-suffering fans of the sport of cricket, Don Bradman Cricket 14 from Big Ant Studios was nothing short of a revelation. Finally, after many years of games that were, to put it nicely, budget releases, was a cricket game with ambition and execution and while the end result wasn’t…

Review: Grow Home (PC)

February 11, 2015

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When Grow Home was announced, the developers told us that it was drawing inspiration from Wall-E and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Having played it now, I would suggest the official line throw in a third inspiration; Jack and the Beanstalk. Originally an internal Ubisoft project designed to test…

Preview: Project CARS

February 11, 2015

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Project CARS has, from its inception, aspired to be the racing game for the most hardcore and dedicated of car racing fans. Successfully crowdfunded by the most committed of car racing fans, it has been scrutinised at every stage of its development by those same people in order to ensure…

Review: Apotheon (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 11, 2015

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We can probably thank God of War for the popularity behind the whole “let’s make angry Greeks and Gods from ancient times fight each other” deal. Perhaps the 300 film helped out a little. Regardless, it seems to be a permanent sub-genre of its own now, with games like Warriors:…

Review: Citizens of Earth (PC)

February 10, 2015

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Citizens of Earth is a turn-based RPG that is heavily inspired by Earthbound and has a hint of Suikoden hidden within it. Your character is the Vice President of the World, and your goal is to recruit citizens who will help you solve strange happenings that are occurring across the…

Review: Survivalist (PC)

February 10, 2015

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Meet Joe Wheeler – businessman, cynic, and survivor of the zombie apocalypse. Emerging from his disaster-proof bunker a year after a virus has zombified most of the world’s population, he sets off to gather survivors and try to make life sustainable in the chaos which remains. A top-down open world…

Review: Risk (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 10, 2015

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After the first competent, but otherwise unremarkable take on Monopoly, Ubisoft has continued its new partnership with Hasbro with a new edition of Risk. This classic strategy board game is arguably a more timeless formula than the one about making money, but it is still a game that has aged,…

Review: Game of Thrones: Episode Two – The Lost Lords (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 9, 2015

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The latest episode in Telltale Games’ new Game of Thrones series continues right after the events of the first episode. And to pre-empt a lot of this review; much of what was true with Iron from Ice holds true in The Lost Lords. Telltale Games’ narrative standards have grown considerably…

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