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February 3, 2015

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Are you still playing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd? I hope so – I certainly am! And SEGA is looking to feed the addiction further with two new sets of DLC to come in February, with the first lot available now (or when the PSN updates, depending on your…

Interview: From EA and Second Life to uber-niche hardcore strategy

February 3, 2015

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Interview by Matt S. Rod Humble has had an interesting path to Cults & Daggers and his startup developer Chaphat. Formerly the CEO of Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, Humble’s role behind that was the head of the EA Play label… the creators of The Sims. So it…

Review: Criminal Girls: Invite Only (Sony PlayStation Vita)

February 3, 2015

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“Oh my, this game is going to be controversial.” These were my thoughts almost immediately after I started playing Criminal Girls: Invite Only (I may or may not be paraphrasing my thoughts to remove expletives there). And after reading the first batch of reviews I guessed correctly – already there…

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February 3, 2015

Dying Light/Horror/open world game/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/techland

Review by Shaan J. In the grand scheme of things, I haven’t really been (seriously) playing video games for that long (I only started taking video games seriously around 10 years or so ago), and I’ve spent even less time writing about them. Still, I’ve always had this weird, hard…

Review: Gunman Clive 2 (Nintendo 3DS)

February 2, 2015

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Review by Matt S. The original Gunman Clive was a perfectly workable old-school platformer. It was ultimately a throwaway game, with very limited replay value beyond perfect runs and speed runs for the diehards, but it was a challenging, clean game that played to its strengths without any pretensions on…

Review: Pike & Shot (Apple iPad)

February 2, 2015

30 Years War/English Civil War/iPad/iPad Review/Italian Wars/Reviews/Slitherine/Strategy/turn based

Review by Matt S. Too many modern strategy games are focused on the World Wars or, if we’re lucky, a couple of centuries previous to that, such as the Napoleonic era. Occasionally we get a big leap backwards in time to ancient wars, but that’s becoming a rare event. How…

Review: Heroes of Might & Magic III HD (PC)

February 2, 2015

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Review by Nick H. Heroes of Might & Magic III HD is not a game I believe many people were asking for, yet it is such an amazingly well-balanced tactical experience that it should be appreciated by people who missed their chance in the past. There are newer iterations in…

Review: Life Is Strange: Episode 1 (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 1, 2015

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Review by Matt S. Life Is Strange makes me hate episodic games. When the opening chapter of a game is this utterly engrossing, to complete it after a solid five hours of continuous play, only to be told “well, you get to wait two months to see the story continue,”…

The games of February; the lull is over

January 30, 2015

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List by Jim S. January might have been a slow month for games, but February sees the releases start in full again. Over the next 28 days we’ll see the most niche of niche JRPGs launch alongside what is surely the biggest western RPG since Skyrim, a western take on the…

Nintendo needs to start offering a subscription service, and soon

January 30, 2015

Financial results/Nintendo/Opinion/subscription services/Virtual Console

Opinion by Matt S. Nintendo recently updated the market on its financial performance, as listed companies are required to do quarterly. The results were not great. While operating profit for the company increased by close to 50 per cent on a year-on-year basis when compared to the October-December time frame…

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