News by Matt S. Back in 2007, a humble little game called Panzer Tactics was released on the Nintendo DS. This game was a reasonably hardcore hex-based strategy game for Nintendo’s little console that could. Of course back then the DS was functionally the only portable gaming device that had…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Love it or hate it, Metacritic serves as a vital cog in the games industry. As a collection of reviews from the most prominent gaming sites across the Web, Metacritic provides a quick snapshot of the approximate value that a game is perceived to offer compared…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Twitch is a pretty big deal; people stream videos of them playing games in real time, while others watch in and laugh at their mistakes – in other words it turns gaming into a spectator event and is the natural evolution of Let’s Plays, where people…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. It’s one thing to see a localisation for a modern retro-style 2D shooter on a home console. It’s another matter entirely to see one –for the typically starved PS3, mind you– rear its head just two weeks after the Japanese launch date. Indeed, UFO Interactive will…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. #MonMonth. That’s the hashtag you’re going to want to use this month! Perhaps I should explain a bit more. DDNet friend, Anne (of Chic Pixel fame), organises a community play-a-long each month, where she’ll specify a game genre, and everyone writes about their experiences playing a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. You wouldn’t think that a trailer for a game about the grim reaper would have you in stitches from laughter. But that’s exactly what happened with this trailer for this upcoming puzzle game. The basic idea of the game is to help nice Mr. Reaper do…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Good news, Atlus fans! The original Shin Megami Tensei, released many years ago now in Japan (22 to be exact), is finally being localised for the western audience. Yes, there are fan translations out there, but this one is a proper localisation by Atlus, and we…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I know it’s cool to hate Square Enix for its free-to-play iOS games, but the upcoming Rise of Mana looks really, really, really good. This action RPG is the latest in a franchise which, it’s fair to say, hasn’t really been a big deal since the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Sitting underneath Skyrim, Dragon Age and Mass Effect is a “B-grade” of western RPG development. These games are always ambitious projects, where inevitably budget constraints mean the games simply can’t compete with the big guns. If this were the film industry, the B-grade RPGs would be…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. An unspecified number of employees at Sony Santa Monica, the developer of the successful God of War franchise, have been laid off, with Sony claiming a “resource re-alignment” via a press release. This is the second announcement in as many weeks of a major developer of…
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