Review by Matt S. If you take Starship Troopers, and add a Japanese kaiju aesthetic, you get Earth Defense Force. If you then put it through a voxel art machine so it looks like LEGO, you get World Brothers. After Iron Rain from a couple of years ago did something…
Read MoreReview by Matt S.The two Prinny titles – Can I Really Be The Hero? and Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! are some of the most oddball titles that Nippon Ichi has created. Taking the common peon and mascot of the Disgaea tactical JRPG series, and throwing them by the thousands…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Devolver Digital and developer, Flying Wild Hog, have announced the third in the Shadow Warrior series, which Flying Wild Hog picked up and rebooted back in 2014. This announcement came with a trailer that is… well, classic Shadow Warrior stuff. Shadow Warrior is irreverent, to put…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Hakoniwa Explorer Plus is really a game about butts. Sure, in theory, it’s also a retro-themed action RPG with an appealing voxel art style, but it really does make this clear from the outset: Hakoniwa Explorer Plus is a game that really likes butts. I’ve played…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It claims to be a “golf game for people that hate golf,” and that is a good summary of the kind of irreverent humour that What The Golf? aims for. It’s not really golf at all though. Rather it’s a silly little physics puzzle game, good…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Speed dating for ghosts is one of those funny little games that you’ll start playing, not expecting too much, and ultimately become charmed by its energy and style. It’s simple and minimalist in just about every way, but importantly it’s also a big success in every…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Untitled Goose Game is the perfect game in its simplicity. It gives players a toybox, and then encourages them to mess it up in whatever wildly creative way they can dream up. Every second of it offers up the driest of dry humour which, coupled with…
Read MoreList by Lachlan W. The Witcher’s Geralt of Rivia is coming to Soul Calibur 6 later this year. While Soul Calibur has an illustrious history when it comes to franchise crossovers (I got so many ring outs with Link in Soul Calibur 2 on the Gamecube), this is the very…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Virtual Reality is the future of tabletop gaming. The weaknesses of VR as a gaming platform – most significantly the limited ability to physically move around – are not an issue when the VR game is emulating a sit-down experience, as you would were you playing…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I’ve been inspired by Kotaku Australia’s Mark Serrels. The guy has a strong opinion about his right to illegally download Game of Thrones, and he is willing to keep coming back to tell us how wrong we are if we disagree with him. That takes gumption.…
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