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Review: The Sims 4 (PC)

September 23, 2014

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Review by Nick H. The Sims have always been a guilty pleasure. I tend to be a very objective driven gamer, in that I want to see levels, and then complete them. The Sims in many ways is the exact opposite of this and so has been a nice break…

TGS 2014: Battle of the horror games, as played out on Sony’s PlayStation 4

September 23, 2014

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Impressions by Matt S. As media, I was able to drop in on Sony’s VIP room at TGS, and play a couple of upcoming PlayStation 4 games largely free of wait lines and crowds. So I figured that I would play the three horror games that it has on the…

TGS Photos: The girls (and occasional guy) of Tokyo Game Show Part One

September 23, 2014

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Photos by Matt S. Tokyo Game Show would certainly look different without its girls. The “booth babe” is a tradition all-but outlawed with most western game shows, but it’s alive and well in Japan, as you’ll see from the series of photo slideshows that we’ll do this week. The question…

Trailer: Explore, synth-blast enemies, and struggle to maintain humanity in Pixel Worm’s flagship title, EMILY

September 22, 2014

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News by Jedediah H. EMILY is no common teenager; injected with an experimental formula loaded with nano-bots meant to counteract the vicious virus in her blood, her body was rendered mechanical, transforming her arm into a pulse-firing synth-blaster. Now, to find her father and reclaim her memories, she must explore…

Gadget Review: PDP Nintendo 3DS XL Crystal Armor – Super Mario Bros.

September 22, 2014

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Review by Nick H. People invest a lot of money into their portable electronics. From phones to mp3 players to video game systems, these miniature devices provide us with countless hours of entertainment while we are on the go throughout our busy daily lives. Having had a few portable systems…

Freeware Focus: Flappy Golf (iOS)

September 22, 2014

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Article by Chris I. Rewind back a few years and tell most anyone that indie games would be earning the same respect and attention as the biggest blockbusters, and they would most likely laugh in your face. Yet, the unthinkable happened and titles like Braid, Limbo, and Bastion are well-known…

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September 22, 2014

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Preview by Matt S. I played well over 50 games while I was at Tokyo Game Show (TGS), and managed to get time with everything from the biggest blockbusters right through to the weirdest mobile games that we’ll never see out west. But for all those games it was a…

Trailer: A trinity of Trinity Seven promos

September 22, 2014

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News by Clark A. Trinity Seven has seen its share of promotion over the past few months as the forthcoming romantic comedy crawls ever closer to its October 7th air date. With that hype comes another trailer courtesy of Avex Group’s official YouTube page and this one packs more digits…

Tokyo Game Show report: People who claim it is losing relevance are missing the point

September 22, 2014

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Opinion by Matt S. With the rise of PAX and Germany’s Gamescom, each of which now comes with big announcements from the likes of Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA and Activision (and of course the continued popularity of E3), many western media publishers have been left wondering what is happening with…

TGS 2014: Hands-on with Dead or Alive 5: Last Round

September 22, 2014

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Impressions by Matt S. I’m a big, big fan of Dead or Alive 5. I started relatively ambivalent with the original release, but it seems I just needed to spend a few hundred hours with the new vision for the series to fall fully in love with it, because with…

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