The Devil May Cry series has always been about blending intense action with a story that plays loose and fast with a mix of supernatural themes. The game that Ninja Theory crafted in DmC: Devil May Cry is an entertaining one, but it might have done better under a different…
Read MoreA fortunate number of us got to encounter one of those “special” teachers growing up. You know the type; ones that actually instilled something more profound than fractions or long division into your skull and their concepts and values helped forge your very identity. These gifted professors often adopt a…
Read MoreEvery season of anime comes with its requisite ecchi and harem shows and Absolute Duo fits both bills rather nicely. So far it has presented a few notable tweaks to the formulas of genres that I feel have become oversaturated in recent years, which should appease the fans of the…
Read MoreFrom the animation studio behind Attack on Titan comes Rolling☆Girls, another series where war is a crucial element. That’s about where the similarities die off, but Wit Studio has got something special on its hands with this new property. Perhaps it’s because Rolling☆Girls has no source material from which to…
Read MoreWe can probably thank God of War for the popularity behind the whole “let’s make angry Greeks and Gods from ancient times fight each other” deal. Perhaps the 300 film helped out a little. Regardless, it seems to be a permanent sub-genre of its own now, with games like Warriors:…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Let’s get this out of the way from the outset: Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash! isn’t just a mild concentration of fanservice. It is more like a distilled form of fanservice that is so pure and concentrated that unless you have spent years building up a resistance…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Escape Dead Island is a budget game, something that is meant to take advantage of the surprise success of Dead Island and its Riptide follow-up. In theory this will help to tide fans of the series over until the proper sequel releases down the road. The…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Pair up a game that has cultural or historical value with a developer suited to the task like Tecmo Koei and you’ve got a killer combination in the eyes of many at Digitally Downloaded. Based on that criteria, the last console generation’s criminally overlooked Bladestorm: The…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I was a big fan of the opening opus of Attack on Titan. Underneath its highly-refined popular anime art style and pacing was a series that offered something substantially more, beyond action sequences and filler between more action sequences. It still revelled in its violence, and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. A tall, beautiful woman stands in the middle of a circle of angelic beings. With guns in both hands and the heels of her shoes, she is a whirling dervish of death, tearing apart the angels with impunity. The size of these creatures is irrelevant as…
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