There have been some PR-nightmares going on with Nintendo of America’s Treehouse division with “Fire Emblem Fate’s” localization and Rapp’s termination. Focusing on localization, we know that the head/face petting has been removed from FEF in the West. However, it has been brought to my attention that in Miitomo, you can head pet your M...
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“Unepic” is a 2d dungeon crawler from the mind of Téllez de Meneses. It took him two years to deliver his game and what an accomplishment it is. He has succeeded in making what many others fail to, a good RPG game. “Unepic” takes inspiration from many games (one example being The Maze of Galious) and has seen its success...
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2016 has had a pretty darn good start with the release of some huge games like of “Farcry Primal“, “The Division“, “Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare” and my personal favorite “Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth“. However, we have some major releases coming to PS4 in the next few months. And most of them will ...
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In case you are behind on events, a firestorm has been brewing in recent days about a new expansion to an age-old classic, “Baldur’s Gate”. The expansion (“Siege of Dragonspear”) has been under construction by Beamdog for the past three years. It essentially bridges the gap between Baldur’s Gate and the original expansion....
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Yes, it´s almost show time for ID Software´s FPS game “Doom” (the gates to hell opens on the 13th of May to Xbox One, PS4 and PC), and after spending a few hours playing the closed beta of Doom to the PS4. I think it’s safe to say that this game is ultra violent, bloody, and the explosive action will...
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There has been plenty of hearsay going on about the Wii U recently. According to a report from NIKKEI the Wii U’s first party support will be discontinued sometime this year. This has caused some concern with its consumer base. It was only a matter of time before another news site, IT Media NetLab, released an article regarding the report:...
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Edutainment games are a genre that has perplexed developers for decades. How do you make a game that is both fun to play but also educates the audience? For every success like “Oregon Trail”, you get a mess like “Mario is Missing”. “Learn Japanese to Survive! Hiragana Battle” on the other hand, tries to break int...
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‘Lucy: The Eternity She Wished For’ (henceforth referred to as ‘Lucy’) is a visual novel that plays with the ideas first considered by Asimov and Phillip K. Dick; primarily the concepts of robotic sentience and its impact on the human population. Being a visual novel, there is absolutely no interaction beyond progressing dialogue and at times (near...
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