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January 11, 2015

art books/Books/Game Art/News/No Starch Press

News by Matt S. Last year I embarked on a epic quest to write a book about games as works of art. Originally I gave Kickstarter a go to try and raise the funds to self-publish the book, but then the good folks at No Starch Press offered to publish…

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January 9, 2015

Arland Atelier Trilogy/Atelier/Atelier Meruru/Atelier Rorona/Atelier Totori/NISA

News by Matt S. If you haven’t bought into the Atelier series yet, then March 6 will be the time to do so. NISA is releasing a special trilogy collection, with all three games on one disc, for £39.99/39.99 EUR. The games are, of course, Atelier Rorona, Atelier Totori and…

The Friday Ten: Ten games from 2014 that were sadly overlooked

January 9, 2015

Bound by Flame/Conception II/Demon Gaze/Don Bradman Cricket 14/Drakengard 3/Friday 10s/Lightning Returns/Nintendo Pocket Football Club/Paper Sorcerer/Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord/Top 10

List by Matt S. Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so every so often we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste…

Winter Anime 2015: Five shows to warm up the season

January 8, 2015

anime/Durarara/Kantai Collection/Koufuku Graffiti/Samurai Warriors/Tokyo Ghoul/winter anime

List by Clark A. Christmas has departed and in its wake are extreme cold weather alerts and snow piles bereft of their festive merit. If you live up in The Great White North as I do, you’re going to be spending as much time as possible snug under the blankets…

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January 8, 2015

Financial results/News/sad news/studio close/Zombie Studios

News by Matt S. Mid-tier developer, Zombie Studios, has announced that it has shut its doors. But not for the reasons that we’ve seen so many developers close down in recent years. Zombie Studios is no more simply because the owners are retiring. This is good news for people looking…

kissy-time-hyperdevotion-noire-goddess

January 8, 2015

Compile Heart/Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart/Idea Factory/JRPG/News/Strategy RPG

News by Jedediah H. Idea Factory has blown its Hyperdimension Neptunia faithful a kiss in the form of a release date for its first strategy RPG, Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart, exclusive to the PlayStation Vita – in North America, it’ll be available February 24th via digital and physical distribution;…

Game Theory: The Roguelike and the absurd; what dungeon grinding tells us about humanity

January 7, 2015

absurdism/Chocobo Mystery Dungeon/Game Theory/Nethack/Opinion/Roguelike/Sorcery Saga Curse of the Great Curry God/The Guided Fate Paradox

Article by Matt S. The roguelike is one of my favourite RPG sub-genres. From the early days when as a school kid I discovered the free Nethack, right though to my time as a university student when it was all I could afford to play, the classic roguelike was something…

Preview: Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta (Microsoft Xbox One)

January 7, 2015

343 Industries/Beta/Halo 5/Halo 5: Guardians/Microsoft/Microsoft Xbox One/Preview

Preview by Shaan J. The video game industry, and the people involved with it, is slowly moving in a direction that I can more easily relate to. Sure, we still have our problems (last year was riddled with controversies, scandals, and more broken games than needed), but it’s hard to…

Looking for a game to play? 2,400 DOS games were just made browser compatible and free

January 7, 2015

DOS games/Internet Archive/News/Retro

News by Matt S. Here’s a nice bit of news for fans of retro games – around 2,400 classic DOS games are available to play for free via your browsers. This is courtesy of the Internet Archive – a great organisation dedicated to preserving the history of digital media. The…

Review: Battle Miner (Nintendo 3DS)

January 6, 2015

3DS Review/Battle Miner/Indie/Minecraft/Minecraft clone/Nintendo 3DS/Reviews

Review by Matt S. Battle Miner is a truly appalling piece of work. I appreciate that the Nintendo platforms don’t have a version of Minecraft on them yet, and I do understand that Nintendo fans want a version of Minecraft on their preferred console. In that context I understand why…

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