As anyone who has ever survived those oft-turbulent teen years knows, transitions can often be awkward periods. So when Yokohama-based Arc System Works, the gurus behind the Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, and Persona 4 Arena franchises ...
Read More »New Game Releases: December 17th-23rd, 2015
With releases like Turok, Fantavision, and a pair of Bubsy games, you’d be forgiven for thinking you might have accidentally clicked on a schedule of new game releases from the nineties. But barring the industry’s ...
Read More »Yakuza 5 review
There’s a curious tension about open-world games. Although the genre extends an exhilarating sense of freedom, offering virtual playgrounds filled with interactive objects, all too often titles rehash Grand Theft Auto’s tenets. For all the ...
Read More »G-senjou no Maou – The Devil on G-String review
Thanks to a steady influx of titles on Steam and the PlayStation Network, the visual novel is finally garnering attention outside of Japan. The downside of this development is that consumers are experiencing a wide ...
Read More »If Her Flag Breaks review
Undoubtedly, the premise of If Her Flag Breaks is satiated with potential. The inaugural entry in the thirteen episode first season begins as a commercial truck jackknifes and collides with a car, sending the vehicle ...
Read More »Earth Defense Force 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Earth Defense Force is a series that despises subtlety; everything about the franchise is unabashedly exaggerated. Enemies range from giant ants, colossal spiders, and enormous, bipedal robots. Regardless of species, EDF fills the screen with ...
Read More »Podcast 15-1: Summa Nights
With 2015 is winding down, the Tech-Gaming crew ruminates on their favorite games across a variety of platforms. Additionally, the team discusses some of the changes that are poised to influence the industry in the ...
Read More »New Game Releases: December 10th-16th, 2015
While all major platforms are receiving a number of new titles, it’s undoubtedly, Nintendo systems that are receiving the bulk of this week’s new game releases. Look past the obligatory eShop shovelware and there are ...
Read More »SteamWorld Heist review
For most thriving developers, the path to prosperity is paved with variations on a theme. The customary modus operandi is to keep attempting new ideas until you stumble upon a hit. And if success is ...
Read More »Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders from Planet Space
It may come as a surprise to some, but the Earth Defense Force series didn’t actually start with the Xbox 360 cult-classic, Earth Defense Force 2017. In truth, 2017 was the third main-line EDF game from ...
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