真女神転生IV (Shin Megami Tensei 4) launched in Japan this week, a couple of months before the English localization is set to hit. We’ve been dabbling with the game this weekand finding an intriguing tale of time travel, religion, technology and demon slaying, with the added twist of being able to negotiate with your demonic foes and have them join your [...]
Panopticon Is Freedom Wars (No Really, No More XBox One) After a shadowy, mysterious countdown site followed by a trailer last week that only raised more questions, it was Famitsu who the lid of Freedom Wars this week. Although we didn’t predict the name change from Panopticon to something significantly less cool, we did correctly guess that this is a [...]
Yes, the next generation bingo card is finally complete, as Microsoft unveiled their newest console in the wee small of hours of the morning of May 22nd over here in Japan. What your beady eyes are locked on here is a one stop shop of information and opinion on the new XBox and how it ties in with the rest [...]
Our usual exceptional timekeeping in producing the Poopcast means Chris Charlton, Jason Stillwell and Joe Robson are on hand to talk about the new XBox mere hours before it is announced, which means by the time most of you listen tot his, it’ll all be over and our predictions will be rendered false. I dunno, go on media blackout for [...]
Knytt: Underground has the worst title screen of any game I can remember playing. In a similar vein to indie darlings like Limbo or Braid, Knytt forgoes the typical ‘press start’ title splash with a menu of saved games and instead drops players directly into proceedings, placing you in a miniature network of caves that have to be navigated before [...]
EA Passes On Online Passes As we prepare for a whole host of changes to the gaming world with the advent of a new hardware generation, one welcome alteration is that we’ll be seeing fewer codes to fastidiously copy into online stores from the backs of manuals. In Japan, these mostly leads to the realisation your jumps through the logistical [...]
It’s a shame the only discernible reason why there’ve been precious few games based around World War I is because of relatively little American support as compared to the more Hollywood friendly sequel. Removing the ethics and decency questions of exploiting real conflicts that left thousands dead, WW1 is a rich untapped well of gaming ideas, from the narrative (the [...]
In which Space Indaver, Chris Charlton and Joe Robson discuss feline urination etiquette, spousal disputes in the office, iOS sales pitches and a couple of video games. GAMES: Sleeping Dogs Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol War Thunder Subscribe, subscribe SUBSCRIBE on iTunes and/or our Youtube feed, for the visually inclined: [iTunes] [RSS] Podcast: Play in new window | Download
America’s Most Hated Company In Charge Of World’s Most Difficult Franchise Shortly after Disney shuttered long time developer of, let’s admit it, largely crummy Star Wars games Lucasarts, the evil mouse empire aligned with the evil video game empire last week, as t was announced that Electronic Arts will be handling development on Star Wars licensed properties on ‘core platforms’ [...]
Free to play logs are not reviews. Mileage will vary even more with a free to play game than with a paid one, and so scores are even less relevant. With FTPlogs, we’ll be giving an overview of our experiences with the game as a whole, covering how the title is (sigh) ‘monetized’ and leaving it up to you whether [...]