News by Matt S. Mortal Kombat is the kind of series that will never go away. Not while its less-than-subtle satire of the bloodlust of the games industry continues to be relevant. And with games becoming ever more violent, I can’t see that relevance waning any time soon. Anyhow, I…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Toy Soldiers, Ubisoft’s action/ tower defence series, will land on PlayStation consoles for the first time with the upcoming next-gen release of Toy Soldiers: War Chest. The game, which will also be available on Windows PC and Xbox One early next year, has been developed by…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The more I see of Natural Doctrine, NISA and Kadokawa Games’ upcoming turn-based tactics game, the more I can’t wait to play it when it releases in September. NISA has released a new trailer in which we see the game’s multiplayer mode in action. Players collect…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Partially due to its over-the-top humour that was largely an effect of its tongue-in-cheek criticism of sexualisation, Senran Kagura Burst was a surprise hit on the 3DS when it released earlier this year, which is awesome for fans and aspiring players because thanks to that title’s…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. What has been rumoured for a while has now been confirmed: Ubisoft will release a new Assassin’s Creed game specifically for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, since fans that haven’t upgraded to the next gen hardware yet won’t get to play Unity. Assassin’s Creed: Rogue…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Onechanbara is a franchise where women clad in the most impractical bikinis you could imagine (just because they can, apparently) run around killing monsters. As you can probably imagine given how singularly grindhouse and exploitative the premise sounds, the Onechanbara games haven’t exactly been of the…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. The Bayonetta franchise is certainly going to have new eyes gazing upon it thanks to Platinum Games’ upcoming Bayonetta 2 on Wii U. It’s fitting, then, that the localised version of the anime movie Bayonetta: Bloody Fate will launching the in very same month as the…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Served to you on a radiating platter of spectacle from the same staff responsible for the Soul Calibur and Tekken series, Rise of Incarnates is a free-to-play PC fighting game predicted to release later in 2014. But before the game is unleashed upon the battle-ready populace,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It seems that after the success that Telltale Games has had with episodic games, other developers have been inspired to mirror the release style. One such developer is Australia’s own Epiphany Games, which has announced a six-part episodic role-playing thriller. This is set in an alternate…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Until the release of Dynasty Warriors 8, Warriors Orochi 3 was my all-around favourite Warriors title. Because of the 120+ characters, which included my BFF Ryu Hayabusa, and a story free from the restraints of the Three Kingdoms’ narrative that allowed said characters from the Dynasty…
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