For many, this week’s schedule of new releases is bound to elicit elation. Between the release of htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary, Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart and Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late, otaku have a ...
Read More »Hand of Fate review
Since their inception, games have struggled to offer a seamless simulation of reality. Visual representation has evolved from blobs of blocky pixels to near photorealism, while audio has advanced from simple chirps into convincing, multi-channeled ...
Read More »Genshiken Second Generation Premium Edition review
One of the fundamental principles of Aristotle’s Poesis is the subject of mimesis, a term used to discuss one of the tensions of artistic representation. For the Greek philosopher, mimesis was the stylization of reality; ...
Read More »Motorcycle Club review
Few games in the PlayStation 4 library are as perplexing as Motorcycle Club. Between Big Ben Interactive’s logo (publisher of WRC 4 – FIA World Rally Championship) on the loading screen and the inclusion of ...
Read More »New Game Releases: February 12th-18th, 2015
From the return of certain carrot-colored, foul mouthed hurdler in Q*bert Rebooted to Dead or Alive’s conventional collection of both burly and bikini-clad fighters in Last Round, this schedule of new releases hosts a number ...
Read More »Castle in the Darkness review
The U.S. release of the Nintendo Entertainment System during the late ‘80s marked a significant paradigm shift for the gaming industry. With American console manufacturers like Atari, Mattel, Coleco, and Magnavox still reeling from the ...
Read More »Criminal Girls: Invite Only review
I can’t help but feel a smidgeon of culpability for the stateside appearance of Criminal Girls. Several years ago, lascivious PS Vita games like Monster Monpiece, Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed, and Senran Kagura: Shinovi ...
Read More »Podcast 14-4: Clockwork Anime
This episode, the crew offers impressions of Kick & Fennick, Race the Sun, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary, as well as revisits Thomas was Alone and Fire Emblem Awakening. Beyond trying to ...
Read More »New Game Releases: February 5th-11th, 2015
Beyond Evolve’s excursion onto PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, this week’s schedule of new releases offers a few other notable titles. For retro devotees there’s the NES iteration of Dig Dug and Mappy-Land as ...
Read More »Dying Light review
Robert’s take: After infiltrating a quarantine zone to uncover the cause of a pestilent outbreak, protagonist Kyle Crane demonstrates a dexterous command of parkour while traversing the region. From scampering across lofty, patchwork rooftops to ...
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