Article by Matt S. Here’s the thing about stepping into a game that has had a loyal fanbase and been expanded on and built out over a period of 11 years; it becomes very difficult for new players to get into it. Especially if the people behind the game don’t…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. Of the different factors that go into the design of a game, its business model is probably one of the least appreciated ones. That is to say, despite us not really caring what ingenious trick a game is trying to pull on us in order to…
Read MoreHands-on by Matt S. I want to start this with a little story about Lady Sun, or Sun Shangxiang. Actually, it’s not much of a story. It’s just that I love her, and this is an excuse to write about her a bit. Related reading: For the full console Warriors…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. When Nintendo announced that it was producing a Fire Emblem game for mobile devices, I more-or-less guessed the form that it would take. Earlier in the year, gumi had localised Phantom of the Kill for mobile devices, so I knew the genre would work, and I…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. When I installed Final Fantasy Brave Exvius on my iPad, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had played Record Keeper before and grown tired within days; I was just not familiar enough with every Final Fantasy game to truly appreciate it. Brave Exvius is essentially…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. While best thought of as a collectible card game, Duelyst really does not look the part. It has a very stylised pixel art aesthetic mixed with a turn-based system that can make it a challenging game to drop into any one bucket. Perhaps that is the…
Read MoreHey! It’s like Diablo, except free! That can’t possibly be bad, right? Well, no. Wrong. Very, very wrong. Gameloft’s model has always been about producing games that are like proper commercial products but then making them free. Or at least, that’s how it defends what it does. I personally just…
Read MoreDespite a weekly manga and sufficient popularity to be lumped in with the “big three” manga franchises in Japan at one time, the Bleach franchise has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Its anime has been discontinued, fewer games and merchandise have been produced, and manga volume sales have…
Read MoreI love Chain Chronicle. It’s actually one of my favourite mobile games of all time. My wife introduced it to me well before there was an English release, when it was making big waves over in Japan. Then it was announced for the west, and I got hooked. To this…
Read MorePuzzle Quest is starting to develop into a very noteworthy franchise. The core two games in the franchise are quality, but the licensed stuff is really checking boxes as well. The Marvel-licensed Puzzle Quest was genuine fun in its own right, but the new Magic: The Gathering Puzzle Quest is…
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