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Interview: Missyeru

Missyeru is internationally-recognized as one of the premiere League of Legends cosplayers in the world,and especially renowned for her ability to build every aspect of a costume herself. Ahead of her appearance at ArcadeCon 2014, we sat down with her to discuss cosplay, League and nomming down on chili peppers. What inspired you to get […]

Retro Review: Golden Sun (Gameboy Advance)

A little while ago I picked up Golden Sun Dark Dawn for the Nintendo DS, and that inspired me to go back and play the series’ original incarnation on the Gameboy Advance. I first played Golden Sun about ten years ago, so the time seemed appropriate to do a retro review of it, and find […]

Preview: Shovel Knight

We’re finally getting around to seeing the releases of the first wave of successfully-Kickstarted games, with FTL having been released and Double Fine’s Broken Age getting its first part released very recently. Of all the Kickstarter successes, though, the one I’m looking forward to most is an old-school platformer in the vein of Castlevania, Mega […]

Tappy Bird Rises!

The mobile gaming industry is infamous for being filled with one-hit wonders, games which do meteorically well and then disappear quietly when the next big thing comes along. Flappy Bird was definitely one of the biggest hits that’s been released on the platform, taking over my Facebook news feed, Tumblr dashboard and Twitter feed in […]

TRAILER TALK – EDGE OF TOMORROW

Recently I read All You Need Is Kill, an excellent novelette by Hiroshi Sakurazaka which deals with Keiji Kiriya, a trooper serving in the Japanese corps utilising power armour to repel an invasion of Japan by the alien Mimics, who are trying to take over the whole Earth. Only, in his first battle, he’s killed. […]

3 Chiptune Acts You Should Be Listening To

Chiptune as a genre is growing in popularity, with artists like I Fight Dragons having songs featured on WWE, Anamanaguchi crowdfunding nearly $280,000 on Kickstarter, and many modern electronic artists incorporating the signature bleeps and bloops of Gameboy Classics and Commodore 64s into their tracks. Hell, even ArcadeCon itself had the fantastic Chipzel as a […]

Ross' Top 5 Games of Generation 7

Summarising the entire 7th console generation is…rather hard, frankly. The highs were awesome and the lows hit depths the likes of which we haven’t seen since the great crash of ’83. Games are becoming more expensive to develop as publishers mistakenly believe graphical power and spectacle are what sell games, leading to more copies needing […]

Ross’ Top 5 Games of Generation 7

Summarising the entire 7th console generation is…rather hard, frankly. The highs were awesome and the lows hit depths the likes of which we haven’t seen since the great crash of ’83. Games are becoming more expensive to develop as publishers mistakenly believe graphical power and spectacle are what sell games, leading to more copies needing […]

Review: AFI – Burials

When a band starts their career with albums containing songs titled “Cereal Wars”, “Shatty Fatmas” and “I Wanna Get a Mohawk (But My Mom Won’t Let Me Get One)” and progresses to having song titles such as “Girl’s Not Grey”, “Days of the Phoenix”, “Kill Caustic” and “Carcinogen Crush”, you know the band’s undergone some […]
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