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The BioShock Game the Vita Could Have Had

With Irrational Games gone, we get a glimpse of the ghost of the BioShock game that could have been on the Vita. Ken Levine, the man behind the great hit franchise, announced what the BioShock Vita game could have been if 2K and Sony ever gotten the partnership together.

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UPDATE: Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment Release Date Announced

Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment will be released on August 19th in North America and on August 20th in Europe and Australia, according to Bandai NamcoContinue reading UPDATE: Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment Release Date Announced

Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars Review (Vita)

For some time now, I’ve expected the emergence of the “Persona-like”, a new subgenre of RPGs that combine dungeon-crawling combat with social/dating sim elements. The concept was codified in 2006 by Persona 3, and it just works so well that I’m surprised it took this long for other games to be inspired by it. Spike Chunsoft’s Conception series is, to my knowledge, the first attempt at creating another franchise inspired by the Persona formula. Now that Conception II has been released outside of Japan, us Westerners get to see how this experiment went. Continue reading Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars Review (Vita)