Five new games will be coming to North America this year courtesy of Xseed Games, and the list is pretty substantial. Valhalla Knights 3 (pictured right) will be releasing for the PlayStation Vita this fall. Lots of job classes and real-time combat are the focus of this action RPG title.…
Read MoreThere is one thing I do not like about Japan. Perhaps it’s because I’m from Australia, which is a remarkably big country with a huge amount of space, and so there’s a nice sense of personal space here. Perhaps it’s because I grew up in the country which made it…
Read MoreIt’s not often that I find a platformer that I really get into. It’s simply not a genre that I get a kick from. So that in itself says a lot when I say I enjoyed Gunman Clive. It’s by no means the best example of the genre, but it…
Read MoreAs voted by you! Through the month of November, we asked for you to vote for your favourite games of the year. You did (and in incredible numbers – thank you for that), and now it’s time to announce the finalists and the winners. Each day we’ll be revealing a…
Read MoreCastle Conqueror Heroes was one of Castle Entertainment’s better titles. A shameless and cheap knock-off off Fire Emblem, it was somewhat compelling by virtue that the Fire Emblem formula was so compelling in the first place. Since quality by association seems to be a win for Circle, it’s back with…
Read MoreLate last year, WiiWare was a nearly dead platform; a very unfortunate time for Aussie devlopers Nnooo to release escapeVeektor: Chapter 1 on the console. The fact we never saw Chapter 2 released there is telling of its limited success despite being an incredible game, I think. Thankfully, then, the…
Read MoreWhat a brilliant game Crimson Shroud is. Yasumi Matsuno (of Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII fame) has done what his compatriots, Yoot Saito (Aero Porter) and Goichi Suda (Liberation Maiden) were not able to in the Guild01 compilation – build a small game that is not only innovative and…
Read MoreI’m always up for a good dungeon crawler. There’s something endearing about boiling the RPG formula down to its very most basic elements and giving players a framework for endless battles and treasure looting. Denpa Men is, for all its gimmickry (we’ll get to that in just a second), a…
Read MoreWhen the endless runner genre is done well (such as Rayman Jungle Run or Run Roo Run) it’s compulsively addictive. These games can be bite sized and challenging, and yet the controls of them are so simple, and the game’s goals are always so close to being within reach that…
Read MoreHaving now played two of the four games that Level 5 and various game auteurs threw together for the Guild01 3DS retail release, I am not surprised that the compilation was a hit in Japan. Liberation Maiden was a flawed bit of genius, and Aero Porter is an even more…
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