Why is the Dreamcast still held in such high regard? That’s one of the questions that SEGA Dreamcast: Collected Works attempts to answer, through a mixture of editorial, contributions from key personalities – including Yu Suzuki, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Peter Moore, among...
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I can’t remember the last time a graphical effect made me double-take. But the light of the setting sun filtering through the palm trees on Ybiza did exactly that. The characters and scenery are pleasantly chunky, but belie what I assume is...
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There’s a lot going on in Freedom Finger. It’s a shoot ’em up, sure. But it has at least three unique selling points: the mechanics, the presentation, and the music. The first two are connected: your ship is a hand giving it...
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It’s gamescom! But I’m sure we’ve all seen enough photos of people intently playing games at booths, and excitable crowds baying at something going on on a stage. So here’s Spider-Man skulking around while people play boardgames, and some ball grabbing on...
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News hit this week that Alec Baldwin is going to be promoting the ten year anniversary of Words With Friends from this autumn. The accompanying photo of him playing a definitely-real game against Bernard Kim, Zynga’s President of Publishing, is enjoyably basic....
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Much excitement this week as Nintendo of America announced a couple of new Joy-Con colours: Neon Purple/Neon Orange and Blue/Neon Yellow. Excitement particularly because – and surely this can’t be accidental – they’re a bit Wario-y: the orange and purple obviously, but...
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Reality Gaming Group this week set about promoting their augmented reality mobile combat game Reality Clash by revealing the top ten locations for playing the game. It’s mostly popular places in London – Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Westfield Stratford, that sort of...
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Henry Cavill’s behind was the big picture news this week, as Netflix started to tease their adaptation of The Witcher. Cue much productive* online discourse: fans of the games complaining about the lack of a second sword; fans of the books patiently*...
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