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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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The Hottest PlayStation 4 Controller

Bad jokes aside, the North American audience has been lacking color selection and awesome custom designs in terms of PlayStation merchandise for some time. Though the pool of options has been growing recently, it’s about to get even larger with the release of the Magma Red PlayStation 4 controller. Continue reading The Hottest PlayStation 4 Controller

Lego Jurassic World Gets A Release Date

This morning, WB Games and TT Games finally revealed a new trailer for LEGO Jurassic World which showcases the dinosaurs and the ability to play as them. Continue reading Lego Jurassic World Gets A Release Date

Life is Strange: Episode 3 – Chaos Theory Gets A Release Date

Square Enix has announced the release date for the next episode in the Life is Strange series.  Life is Strange: Episode 3 – Chaos Theory will be released on May 19, 2015. Continue reading Life is Strange: Episode 3 – Chaos Theory Gets A Release Date

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster PS4 Unboxing

Take a look at what’s inside the Limited Edition version of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster for the PlayStation 4.

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