Review by Nick H. A lot of licensed games feel diluted, like the qualities that made them an interesting property in the first place get lost in the transition from television or book to the gaming console. Maybe it is the idea of trying to add objectives, or coming up…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is a free-to-play Dungeon Crawling and Simulation Action RPG where you get to raid other people’s castles for experience, treasure and glory. The characters are funky and have funny personalities, the customisable environments range from beautiful to comically horrifying, the…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Platforming games were my bread and butter growing up. I had some older consoles like the TI99/4a and Atari to keep me busy as a little kid and then when the NES came out I got to experience the wonders of Super Mario Bros. and more.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Assassin’s Creed IV hit Ubisoft’s expectations with 10 million units shipped, according to the company’s third quarter financial report. Just Dance 2014 also performed strongly at six million units, but the news aside from those two titles was not as rosy for the publisher. For the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was initially a DLC add-on titled Freedom Cry. Obviously it’s a very big game in its own right though, because Freedom Cry is being released as a stand-alone title. In other words you don’t need to own Black Flag to download…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Why do I love Might & Magic X so much? Let me count the ways! 1) It’s an old-school style RPG Might & Magic X is a turn based game where players move around an environment laid out like a grid, one step at a time.…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Ubisoft released Might & Magic X today; a game that it has billed as an old-school RPG to appeal to people who still remember loading up games through DOS. I’ve only spent around four hours in the game so far, which is a scratch on the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s a shame that Ubisoft decided to Assassin’s Creed Liberation’s hero, Aveline, on a portable game. While the original Vita release was a fine game in its own way, it was clear that this game didn’t have the production budget of the “real” Assassin’s Creed games.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. A wonderfully brief press release landed in my inbox this morning, with the simple news that Ubisoft has picked up the Tetris license for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. One assumes this means that EA has lost the rights to the license. “We welcome Ubisoft…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’m not sure why, but the big publishers seem to struggle with coming up with compelling ways to bring their important franchises to the iPad. EA has both hits and misses in equal measure, and Activision has only made token efforts with its Call of Duty…
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