Review: Samurai Warriors 5 (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S. Samurai Warriors 5 is exactly what Koei Tecmo needed to do with their venerable series. It balances out every quality th...

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Samurai Warriors 5 might be the perfect realisation of the Musou vision

Preview by Matt S. I've finally been able to get some hands-on time with the console (PlayStation 4) version of Samurai Warriors 5. As...

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Samurai Warriors has turned 18 this year! Why this series means so much to me

Article by Matt S. Today, Koei Tecmo Europe dropped a little tweet to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the Samurai Warriors series, alon...

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Game developers need to be more responsible about how they handle history

Opinion by Matt S. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." That famous quote from philosopher George...

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This Week's Switch Port News: Friday, December 7, 2018

News by Matt C. Every week, there are approximately 56345656476 announcements for Switch ports of previously-released games. That'...

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The Friday Ten: The ten best Warriors games ever made

List by Matt S. As anyone who knows me knows, I am a massive fan of Koei Tecmo's Warriors (or Musou, as it's known in Japan) fr...

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Sekigahara: An essential location for anyone interested in Japanese history

Travel by Matt S.  As a very big fan of games based in Japanese history - Samurai Warriors, Nobunaga's Ambition, Hakuouki and the...

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On the narrative mysteries and potential of Warriors Orochi 4 (TGS interview)

Interview by Matt S. It’s been a while since the last Warriors Orochi. If you ignore the remakes and HD remasters of Warriors Orochi 3,...

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Learning history through Samurai Warriors! Mitsuhide Akechi; Samurai Judas

Video by Matt S. Mitsuhide Akechi is well known as being the one that pulled off the biggest blindside (i.e. betrayal) through the Seng...

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You've loved the game... now read the book

Article by Matt S. I'm a big fan of reading. I recommend it to all people. As much as the world seems to be moving away from the wri...

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VIDEO: Learning history through Samurai Warriors! Okehazama and Nobunaga Oda

Video by Matt S. Okehazama was the first major battle in the Sengoku period (and the first "level" in most Samurai Warriors g...

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VIDEO: Learning history through Samurai Warriors! Kaihime and the Hōjō clan

V ideo by Matt S. One of the most fascinating stories through the Sengoku period of Japanese history (which forms the basis of Samurai ...

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Games that inspire us to learn, Space Invaders, and other great stuff! (Digitally Uploaded 2018, Episode #2)

This week we have a good chat about games that have inspired us to learn about stuff, Space Invaders as a masterpiece of great game desig...

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Video: Learning history through Samurai Warriors

Video by Matt S.  One of the things that I love about the Samurai Warriors games is the way that they depict history. Often they're...

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Review: Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt S. I wasn’t all that keen going into Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada, truth be told. I love Samurai Warriors with an ...

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On retelling history through pure action

Interview by Matt S. The next Warriors game from Koei Tecmo is another Samurai Warriors game, but it's a very different one from wh...

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Koei Tecmo has announced another Samurai Warriors game and it's different

News by Matt S.  In this week's issue of Famitsu (buying this thing is one of my most understated joys in Japan) there was a doub...

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Dead or Alive 5's new character, Naotora Ii, is amazing

Review by Matt S.  I really expected Naotora Ii to be a token character thrown in to eke some additional life out of the already excel...

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Dead or Alive 5 is getting a samurai warrior to the party

News by Matt S. Years after Dead or Alive 5 was first released, Koei Tecmo is still hard at work at its flagship fighting game. Becaus...

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DDNet does Japan! Day #9: Time for another history lesson!

As the second part of my little day trip out of Tokyo, I headed into Odawara city. There was a very simple reason for this: I badly - ba...

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