News by Matt S. I am beyond excited for Total War: Three Kingdoms. The first time the Total War series has taken on the most fascinating conflict in Chinese history, the very idea of the Creative Assembly blend of battlefield real time strategy and empire-building, turn-based grand strategy, is enough…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s hard to top Mario Kart as the ultimate character crossover kart racing game, but that hasn’t stopped many developers from trying in the past. Perhaps the most successful of these has been Sumo Digital, whose work on Sonic Racing has been well regarded for a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Of course SEGA Genesis Classics is superb value. You’re talking about a lineup of 50 games here (the full range of games is here), ranging from the brilliance of Sonic (back when Sonic was actually worth playing) through to classic fighting brawler action in Golden Axe,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Persona 4 Dancing All Night could have easily been a bad game. Making a rhythm game “sequel” to a JRPG isn’t exactly a logical path I would have taken. Related reading: Our review of the original Persona 4 Dancing All Night on PlayStation Vita But it…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. A fair number of people are quite miffed that Nintendo hasn’t launched Virtual Console on the Nintendo Switch as yet. It was, after all, a major part of the Wii U, 3DS, and Nintendo Wii, and while commentary around those retro games suggest they’re not massive…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Yeah, this is a tiny bit of news, but it was also an excuse to write about Hatsune Miku again, so why not? On April 19, SEGA will release a patch for the Japanese version of Project Diva Future Tone. This patch – Version 1.06 –…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There are few franchises that are more incomprehensible to people who aren’t in love with them than the Football Manager series. Taking out all the thrill of the on-field heroics of a football team, this series instead casts you as the manager of your own team.…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. SEGA’s Hatsune Miku games were what got me into vocaloids in the first place, and thousands of hours of gameplay later, I still love them every bit as much. But SEGA has gone quiet on Hatsune Miku, while other developers and publishers are making games. And…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Yakuza games can be such a glorious mess at times. Each title in the series pulls together so many completely disparate elements that the end result is a weird, and often downright surreal, soup of gameplay mechanics, aesthetics, tone and themes. And yet the overriding fact…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Miku bless Atlus/SEGA. Without that publisher we would just never see quirky Japanese games like Shining Resonance Refrain in the west. Of course, it’s SEGA’s own game and it’s been something like a decade since it bothered to localise one, but let’s not hold grudges here.…
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