After a couple of weeks of sheer excitement with great new game releases – XCOM on the iPad, The Last Of Us on the PS3, and Time and Eternity for the otaku amongst us, it seems that we’re in a rare quiet moment for game releases right now. So picking…
Read MoreMonster Hunter has a huge following everywhere, but particularly in Japan. Monster Hunter 4 is set to release on the Nintendo 3DS September 14th of this year in Japan. It’s been a while since there has been a genuinely new Monster Hunter game; for some time now Capcom has been…
Read MoreUbisoft’s Wii U Zombie survival game will not be on the receiving end of a sequel any time soon thanks to the original title being “not even close” to making a profit. According to a story posted on MCV by way of gamesindustry International, Ubi CEO Yves Guillemot has stated…
Read MoreTwo things are very apparent; Nintendo’s Wii U is never going to be the relative success of its greatest selling consoles – the Wii, SNES and various handheld devices. It’s also not going to bankrupt the company. It is, in fact, very likely that the device ends up being like…
Read MoreBack when Digitally Downloaded ran a second website, Otaku Gaming, we reviewed a little Japan-only from Konami called New Love Plus. This was a 3DS sequel to a wildly popular DS game, and evidently the 3DS sequel was popular enough to justify a sequel, New Love Plus +. For the…
Read MoreMy time with Urban Trial Freestyle has left me with a sour taste in my mouth. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to have fun with it or it’s the work of a group of sadists that take great pleasure in leaving me frustrated. If there’s one game that resembles…
Read MoreGummy Bears Magical Medallion is clearly aimed at a younger audience, which is fitting for the younger 3DS gamers. As a cheap low budget title aimed at kids, it’s not terribly unexpected to find a few shortcomings scattered about, though it’s disappointing that the industry continues to expect children to…
Read MoreWhat do you get when you mix in a little bit of everything to a tactics strategy game? In the case of Project X Zone, what you get is moments of humorous dialogue sprinkled into a ridiculously thrown together story. And that makes for a fun game that is definitely…
Read MoreReally, we expect better from Keiji Inafune. The man is outspoken, but deeply creative, and his other recent games (Soul Sacrifice, Asura’s Wrath) are well worth playing. His upcoming Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z looks brilliant. What the heck happened with Bugs Vs. Tanks? I can only assume that some executives…
Read MoreA couple of generations of gaming ago, a few developers experimented with claymation and bringing the unique and hugely entertaining style of stop-motion gaming to gamers. Unfortunately, games like Clayfighter demonstrated some issues with this style of game – it just doesn’t work for action titles. However there was one…
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