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Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Review

A Step Back

It’s impossible to write about Machine GamesWolfenstein: The Old Blood without mentioning their other, far better game Wolfenstein: The New Order.  The New Order is a brilliant shooter that took genre conventions, put them in an interesting alternate reality, and then grounded that reality with characters and relationships that the player invested in.  Wolfenstein: The Old Blood attempts to flesh out that world with middling success, and loses a hell-of-a-lot of heart in the process.

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Toren Review

LOST IN TRANSLATION?


Toren is the first game by Brazilian developer, Swordtales. This stylish platformer is also one of the first games to come out of the country’s Brazilian Cultural Incentive Law, which allows any Brazilian corporation to pay a percentage of its income tax to finance “cultural projects.” Suffice it to say that Toren takes the nurturing of that imaginative culture very seriously through its abstract and, at times, ambiguous plot. Poetry plays a large part in Swordtales’ storytelling here, and the developer’s artistic style is hard to ignore even at a glance. Still, even with such seeming care and attention to bring a video game into the realm of “high art,” could it be that the drive to build a game got a little lost?

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Ronimo Games (Swords and Soldiers II) Interview

Swords and Soldiers was one of the most underrated WiiWare games, and with Swords and Soldiers II coming out this week, we here at Middle of Nowhere Gaming decided to catch up with Dutch developer Ronimo Games. Continue reading Ronimo Games (Swords and Soldiers II) Interview

Ratchet and Clank Game and Film to release Spring 2016

Just in time for the Ratchet and Clank Film, Ratchet and Clank Reboot has been delayed till spring 2016. Assuming the game coincides with the release of the movie, which is April 24, 2016, It would be mutually beneficial for both Sony and Focus Features.

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Will Casey Hudson Make HoloLens a Must Buy?

On this week’s MONG Podcast, the team discussed some of this week’s biggest gaming news like DOOM at E3, Destiny’s latest patch, Sony opening up another first party studio for Project Morpheus, another Splatoon testfire event, April’s NPD Report, and Casey Hudson joining Microsoft Studios. Continue reading Will Casey Hudson Make HoloLens a Must Buy?

This Week’s New Releases: 5/18/15

Here are all of the games that are coming out this week in North America! Continue reading This Week’s New Releases: 5/18/15