Lock and load! This week’s itinerary of new releases offers a number of remarkable titles. From the integration of two new levels and bosses in Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, the retro-inspired charms of Shovel ...
Read More »Blue Estate Review
The on-rail shooter genre is a particularly contentious genre. While some take pleasure in the adrenaline rush derived by using potent weaponry to plow through processions of angry foes, others have little patience for linear ...
Read More »Concursion Review
The old cliché “variety is the spice of life” has been the driving concept behind in a number of noteworthy games. Early coin-ops such as Tron or Gorf were conceived around the notion that an ...
Read More »New Game Releases: June 20th-26th, 2014
From a role-playing game built for the PSP (End of Serenity) to a visual novel that’s set 150 years before the events in BlazBlue (XBlaze Code: Embryo), this week’s roster of new releases offers a ...
Read More »Battle Princess of Arcadias Review
Although Nippon Ichi’s internally developed titles span a wide swath of genres, they habitually abide by one near-universal principal. While seemingly simple on the surface, each game conceals an enormous amount of intricacy. The latest ...
Read More »E3 2014: Clothes Encounters with XSEED
E3 is four day event in which you endure an unremitting assault on the senses to experience fleeting moments of elation. Between the deafening dub-step, pushy PR people, and crowds of courtesy-deficient attendees, the show ...
Read More »E3 2014: Doctrine, Death, and Doods With NIS America
With Sony and Microsoft attempting to build market share in Japan, gamers were probably expecting to see a few exports during each company’s respective presser. Yet, save for a short showing of Platinum Games’ Scalebound, ...
Read More »New Game Releases: June 13th-19th, 2014
With most of the industry recovering from the four-day deluge of games known as E3, this week offers up a quantity of conventional titles. Beyond Electronic Art’s simulation of mixed martial arts in EA Sports ...
Read More »E3 Day One: Twin Tales and Avian Otome
One of the distressing deficiencies of the E3 pressers was the complete lack of Japanese role-playing games. Fortunately, a visit to the Namco-Bandai meeting room helped to cure this shortcoming. After viewing Dragon Ball Xenoverse, ...
Read More »1001 Spikes Review
While online gaming forums might be fueled by contention, there’s one premise that almost all players maintain: our games have become dramatically easier over the years. Whereas failure could once be measured by the rapid ...
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