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If there is one thing that Nintendo has got good at doing it’s getting you buying the same thing multiple games. Hands up who has bought Super Mario Bros at least three times? Be honest. Yeah most of you, thought … Continue reading
And so it goes: a re-release of an older game proves popular which leads to a new entry in the series. The Sly Cooper HD bundle has led to this new release, Sly Copper: Thieves in Time available on the … Continue reading
Running and shooting and jumping and shooting. What you have there is pretty much the pure distillation of the majority of video games, which might explain why first person shooters (FPS) have given the industry some of the most popular … Continue reading
Role playing games have long been aimed towards the more niche end of the market but there have been times when they have burst into the mainstream. The late nineties boom in Japanese RPGs for example or in recent years … Continue reading
How do you feel about quirk? As independent games have gained a wider audience in the past few years we’ve also had a lot more quirky; quirky music, quirky looking art styles and quirky ideas. And this is good! We … Continue reading
Video games were once all about cute characters running round in brightly coloured worlds with blue skies listening to incredibly catchy simple tunes. And then things changed and games became gritty and dirty and the music became more raucous with … Continue reading
There was a time, long long ago, when a console wasn’t a console without a Japanese role playing game. Seriously, that was one of the biggest game genres lapped up by millions of adoring fans. In the last few years? … Continue reading
The crowbarring of a story into a video game is one of the most enduring parts of the industry. You can’t just have things shooting other things with a thing, it needs to by justified by an invading force or … Continue reading
The transition between video game console generation is always full of rampant speculation, guesswork and rumour-mongering of the highest order. Much of it should only be served with a bucket of salt but occasionally something bubbles to the surface that … Continue reading
Bejewelled was a game that was, weirdly, a defining moment; since that game was first loaded in a web browser the match-three-item game has been everywhere with all kinds of franchises and names plastered all over it. So it goes … Continue reading