Mirroring the moniker of their parent company, Idea Factory, developer Compile Heart has been consistently proficient when it comes to conceptualization. Record of Agarest War introduced an intriguing “Soul Breed” system into the SRPG genre, ...
Read More »New Game Releases for the Week of February 25th, 2015
Yes, it’s official: Nintendo has gone bananas. No, were not talking about how the company is handling the release of Amiibos, although that is certainly eccentric. Instead, we’re referencing the release of six classic Donkey ...
Read More »htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary review
While Nippon Ichi has enjoyed sustained success with the Disgaea franchise, the Gifu-based publisher/developer has often struggled to cultivate another hit. Sure, Spike Chunsoft’s Danganronpa games has earned critical and commercial acclaim and NIS America ...
Read More »Total War ATTILA review
Creative Assembly has become a staple in the world of grand strategy games through their Total War series. The game’s mix of historically accurate Civilization-like strategy with tactical RTS battles allowed Creative Assembly carve its ...
Read More »Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy+ review
Since the Nintendo 3DS’ launch in 2011, the portable has amassed a prolific library of games. And while the role-playing, platforming, fighting, and racing genres have each earned a substantial number of entries, aeronautical antagonism ...
Read More »Podcast 14-5 Beseige My Beating Heart
Three hour marathon episodes too long for your busy schedule? Episode 14-5 of the Tech-Gaming Podcast has been hitting Wii Fit hard, slimming down its mighty girth to an easily digestible duration. While the running ...
Read More »Kirby and the Rainbow Curse review
Much like the pink protagonist’s aptitude for shapeshifting, HAL Laboratory’s Kirby games have adapted a variety of forms. Beyond the platforming mechanics of Kirby’s Dream Land, Kirby’s Adventure, and Kirby: Super Star, the character has ...
Read More »New Game Releases: February 19th-25th, 2015
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; ...
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