A duo of former NISA employees have broken away to live the indie dream, and have formed Mr. Tired Media. After diligently working away on getting its first game up to a state where it can show it off, the new studio has taken to Kickstarter to fund Undead Darlings…
Read MoreSomehow, in the midst of the pre-E3 leaks and general E3 madness, a game managed to slip through the cracks. But this small announcement that some (okay, myself) may have missed brings big excitement! Keita Takahashi, creator of the cult classic Katamari Damacy game and subsequent sequels, has a new…
Read MoreI love trivia, quizzes, and all that stuff. In fact, one of the best things about not working from an office is that every weekday I get to indulge myself during daytime TV to watch the brilliant British quiz show, The Chase. In fact, if I ever start working from…
Read MoreThe first major expansion to Square Enix’s revitalised Final Fantasy XIV, Heavensward, has now landed. This expansion continues one of the most fascinating MMOs that we’ve ever seen. Originally released as Final Fantasy XIV, the game was a critical and commercial bomb, with player numbers dropping off a cliff almost…
Read MoreIf you’ve got friends to play with, Payday 2 is exceptional. If you don’t, Payday 2: Crimewave Edition it might well be the greatest waste of money you’ll ever spend. Related reading: You can also read my preview of the game here. Luckily, I have friends, so I got to…
Read MoreIt was all the way back in 2009 when the first iteration of Street Fighter IV was released. Six years later, Capcom is still releasing new editions of it, this time bringing Ultra Street Fighter IV to the PS4. And people complain about Dead or Alive’s 5 regular re-releases… I’ve…
Read MorePeople have a real fascination in creating and then solving crime fiction puzzles. Right from the formation of the detective story in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, through Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, the game with which the…
Read MoreWith the recent re-release of Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation 4, I’ve had an excuse to play the game yet again. I’m not quite sure how many times I’ve actually played Final Fantasy X through since my first run on the PlayStation 2, but it’s surely more than a…
Read MoreAh, that difficult old beast that is comedy. One of the challenges in building a comedic game is that no one has the same sense of humour, and what is funny to one person (or group of people) is not necessarily funny to another. Worse, if a comedy isn’t funny,…
Read MoreArmello, the Australian-developed digital boardgame that is best thought of as a cross between the Animals of Farthing Wood and Civilization, is inbound to console. Previously a PC-only release, the game has players choose a character from one of a couple of different animal clans, and then compete to take…
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