Review by Matt S. The amusing thing about BloodRayne 2 is that the game was very much less favoured on its original release… but the ReVamped edition shows that it has held up better. When you consider what the first BloodRayne was trying to achieve – to be that grimy,…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Over the last couple of weeks there has been an ongoing discussion regarding one upcoming PlayStation 5 game. Project Eve, it’s called, and it goes pretty heavy on the fan service. There has been some criticism on this, but one of the more interesting pieces…
Read Moreby TsuChanJohnson Editor’s intro: One of the most common discussions that continues to pop up every few months in video games is the way that some Japanese games depict female characters – particularly when they start wearing school uniforms or the anime aesthetic means that they look youthful. Every time…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s such an easy topic to champion in the political sphere that it can only be cynical – for those that haven’t been following Australian politics, one of our more obscure and useless senators, Stirling Griff, has decided to go on a campaign against anime and…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. This week we got the first trailers and details regarding the next Onechanbara release: Onechanbara Origin. We don’t have a western release announced at this stage (fingers crossed), but all the excitement had me dusting my copy of Onechanbara Z2 Chaos off. Related reading: Our review…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt C. Gal*Gun: Double Peace was a much smarter game than most people gave it credit for. It was trashy—and I don’t mean that pejoratively—but through that B-grade tone it achieved a pointed satire of a lot of common tropes seen in anime and games. Gal*Gun 2 has…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. This is going to be short. I’ve already written about this topic over and over again. I’m tired of writing about this topic. I’m frustrated that I keep having to. Related reading: If you want to read my more in-depth thoughts here’s one of the many…
Read MoreLet’s get something clear, right off the bat: Gal*Gun: Double Peace is a lewd, hypersexualised, fanservice-riddled game, and it never pretends to be anything else. At the same time, it has a level of self-awareness and subversiveness that also makes it a rather brilliant satire of such games and of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Since I’ve already covered the Japanese version of Gal*Gun: Double Peace, I won’t run through a lot of that material again for this review of the English version. You can check out my more in-depth analysis of the narrative behind the game there. I’ll use this…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Blizzard has announced that it will remove an “over the shoulder” victory pose of one of its characters in Overwatch after it received complaints that the backside, that people should naturally expect to see when viewing someone wearing skintight leggings from behind, was “sexualised.” You can…
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