The latest edition in the worlds foremost anthropomorphic community simulator is dropping this month on Nintendo 3DS. Released a whole 6 months ago in Japan, Animal Crossing: New Leaf will find its way to North American shores on June 9th, … Continue reading
If there is one thing that Nintendo has got good at doing it’s getting you buying the same thing multiple games.
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, is a game split into four “episodes”, and this review covers Episode 1: The Hangman, which introduces us to the main character of the series, Erica Reed. Erica is an FBI investigator living in Boston, … 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
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
Ah Pixar, how fond we are of you, the saviour of Disney, and the proof that CGI animated movies were ever more than just a fad.
Unstoppable Gorg has a distinctively unique style, as it presents itself with a 1950’s-esque style to its Alien Invasion story, as much as the technologies are clearly from the far flung future. This style is definitely reminiscent of old films … Continue reading
Traveller’s Tales’ LEGO games are stupidly addictive for completionists. Nearly every object can be destroyed and turned into a burst of studs, which bounce about until falling of an edge or disappearing because they weren’t collected in time. Worse, a … Continue reading