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Bladestorm: Nightmare’s western release date no longer haunts us at night

November 20, 2014

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News by Clark A. Pair up a game that has cultural or historical value with a developer suited to the task like Tecmo Koei and you’ve got a killer combination in the eyes of many at Digitally Downloaded. Based on that criteria, the last console generation’s criminally overlooked Bladestorm: The…

Review: Tales of Hearts R (Sony PlayStation Vita)

November 20, 2014

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Review by Nick H. Tales of Hearts R is a classic JRPG in every sense of the word. From its endearing if overly familiar characters, through to a story arc that is less than fresh, random battles and a somewhat mash-happy combat system that could have used greater strategic nuance.…

Gadget Review: iHome iDL100 Lightning Dock Triple Charging Clock

November 19, 2014

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Review by Nick H. Most of the iHome products do a great job of delivering solid sound with a variety of options, ranging from portable speakers to headsets. One of the recent clocks I got to try, the iB180 alarm clock, had some cool features but underperformed in the sound…

Trailer: Final Fantasy XV Tech Demo Vol. 1 is rather luminous

November 19, 2014

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News by Jedediah H. With all eyes ecstatically focused on the development of Final Fantasy XV, Square Enix has released a demo that shows a montage of the technology behind one of the studio’s most important creations of all time. The demo showcases a number of visual mechanics, as powered…

Review: Never Alone (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 19, 2014

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Review by Matt S. The games industry is still young, and so it hasn’t been especially effective in reflecting the many and wonderful cultures of the world. That’s not surprising, of course, because as with any emergent art form it has taken time for games to be accepted as a…

Anime Impressions: Your Lie in April

November 19, 2014

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Impressions by Clark A. Anyone sentimental can attest to the strain that occurs upon performing a task associated with powerful memories. For me, it’s as trivial as revisiting particularly nostalgic games from my childhood, but others such as Kousei Arima aren’t quite so fortuitous with their ticks. Arima dreads playing…

Omega Quintet: Idea Factory’s first PS4 title singing a path to NA and Europe Spring 2015

November 19, 2014

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News by Jedediah H. When my musical instructor suggested that my classmates and I practice our Solfège for the sake of keeping our singing voices continuously tempered and prepared, I never thought that my soothing, celestial-kisses-to-the-ear baritone could be used to save the world from evil because, well, reality kind…

Review: Peggle 2 (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 19, 2014

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Review by Jim S. When I first heard of Peggle I thought to myself “that really doesn’t sound like fun,” but then a friend of mine got me to play it and boy was I immediately realised how wrong I was. Now Peggle 2 has arrived on the PS4 and…

Gadget Review: iHome iBN180 Clock Radio

November 18, 2014

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Review by Nick H. The iHome iBN 180 seems to be trying to be a Swiss army knife. It has a lot of utility and a good number of options, but like a bard in Dungeons & Dragons, it does a lot of things adequately but few of them particularly…

Review: Assassin’s Creed: Unity (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 18, 2014

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Review by Matt S. Assassin’s Creed: Unity has problems. And I’m not just talking about its bugs, because frankly those things add a level of unintentional comedy to the game that adds value to it. I wanted to break the game just to experience them, and I’m actually going to…

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