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Admission’s Ammunition

2018-08-26T19:58:00.003-07:00

I have repurchased Resonance of Fate with little trepidation after selling it years ago. I have not yet played it again and will have to start it over again (this time on PS3).

Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx2 Available Now

2018-07-23T21:18:00.001-07:00

SEGA brought Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx2 to the West today after lighting up the App Store charts in its native land. The title is available on a variety of both Google Play and Apple App Store supported devices.

Players can download the complete app data immediately, gain a variety of bonuses from events and date-specific unlocks, and continue into the main story after a relatively short “labeled” tutorial.

Old favorites are present and players selecting male or female main-character avatars will start with recognizeable faces. Don’t let that fool you. There’s plenty to continue learning from how old mechanics reappear to how new characters play a part in the adventure.

Of particular note? Microtransactions are present, but without social links to rush through, Liberation Dx2 may be perfect for the drip feed SEGA probably has planned. Look for more on this blog soon.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Review

2018-07-18T12:19:00.000-07:00

In any immediate sense, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! belongs on platforms it has already appeared on. You wouldn’t smithy your way to a pacifist market if weapons like axes, bows, and fire wands were your bread and butter. Android and other mobile devices, including the Nintendo Switch which now plays host to the title, make for much better grinding, sharpening, or forging. All of this isn’t to say that you don’t do anything or go anywhere while playing around with your weapon shop.

In fact, one of the first places you might find yourself other than a sales trip to Noob Village happens to be the fabulous yearly awards show. Grindy games like this have to tempt the player with something and the awards offer more than just a sneak peek at weapons you can make after research efforts. That there are other weapon shops necessitates the competitive spirit.

Not merely ensuring a few smiles in its writing, Holy Potatoes! also teased my economic sense one way while pushing the difficulty appropriately the other. With four potato-smiths including Laura Craft and Bulk Bogan, I thought tackling a special request a few times over would let me mash potato to the next expansion of my shop. You can invite special crafts-potatoes to work on projects and reap the stat boosts associated with each. Doing so brought me so close to fulfilling the request, that I figured I needed to try again. The dastardly Agent 46, the antagonist to your developing tuber, visited and demanded a minimal sum for allowing me to work, but the staff wages broke the bank.

Never fear, the guild will bail players out and development of smithy skills may actually demand planning around this seemingly near-fail state. Three bail-outs and you’ll be foreclosed upon. Changing jobs costs money, buyers can sometimes prove fickle, and workers will want to go on vacation. I don’t play these games all the time, but Holy Potatoes! matches the gold standard in my mind when stacked against Game Developer Story, a title I gnawed thoroughly on iOS. This genre doesn’t seem to have a long way to go with all the simulators considered.

You can jump to a middle ground of weapon shop development from the title screen if you wish, but I found myself wanting more than just the fast forward button or the dog to feed. It’d be cool if the developers included a fire to fan, an optional rhythm game for the pedal spinning a sharpening stone, or a series of button inputs for enhanced magical stats. These are small spuds compared to the solid gameplay on hand.

I reviewed the game on PS4 with a code provided by the publisher.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! PS4 Review

Brave Frontier: The Last Summoner Videos Available On...

2018-07-17T11:59:00.001-07:00

... the game’s Facebook page!

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Available Now On PS4 And Switch

2018-07-16T14:25:00.001-07:00

Persona Gets Puzzle & Dragons Spin Off

2018-07-13T15:57:00.002-07:00

Persona Series x Puzzle & Dragons Collaboration Announced for the English Version, Begins on July 16, 2018. Persona & Puzzle & Dragons art.

@Persona_Central on Twitter

Unreal Developer Revenues Increase

2018-07-12T20:15:00.003-07:00

Today Epic is increasing the Unreal Engine Marketplace seller revenue share from 70% to 88%, effective now and going forward, and retroactively! Get the details here:

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LISTEN: Wye Oak

2018-07-12T19:51:00.000-07:00

How Did I Even End With A Positive Ratio

2018-07-11T20:46:00.002-07:00

PS-Cake

2018-07-10T13:34:00.001-07:00

So I bought a PS4 off of eBay to continue putting my life back together, as shallow as that sounds, and there were problems, but more on that later because hell yes, I’ll sacrifice Netflix quality to keep game downloads rockin’ steady.

If I remember correctly, everything I did with my PS4 from launch would halt a download’s progress, but Arrested Development leading up to new episodes I haven’t seen didn’t last night.

It’ll Be Awhile Until November

2018-07-09T17:32:00.003-07:00

I’m frustrated because rather than MAX several Confidants at once, I should have run through them as they came. “Finishing” the game with only two was a mistake. Nobody told me, if you couldn’t tell by my referencing a full year of gameplay yesterday.

Better than the game itself is my discovery of the Japanese VO pack on PSN. Thanks, Atlus!

I Maxed A Confidant

2018-07-09T00:14:00.001-07:00

Playing a Persona game connected to a TV and an outlet is weird. It’s about as weird as subplots raised and dropped by Mishima Yuuki. This guy texted me one night and wound up my first MAX Confidant. Sakura-chan’s trouncing him with that natural 20 only moments prior felt satisfying.

I’ve got all the Confidants registered, but I’ll really need another half a game to level all of them up in my first play through. More irritating is how slowly stats are leveled, but I’ve lost sight of activities that raise them more than marginally. All in all, I don’t want Persona 5 to end!

The game is fantastic and a totally direct sequel to Persona 4 Golden, so I feel right at home.

Popcap and Criterion Executives Leave Their Studios

2014-01-03T11:59:00.001-08:00

I like Electronic Arts and the software they put out, but they also seem to have the highest rate of turn over for executives. Over the new year, two stories broke about the restructuring within key studios at Electronic Arts. First, Criterion developers responsible for founding the studio left. Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry are working to form a new studio together. Next, Popcap CEO Dave Roberts and co-founder Jason Kapalka have left, though Kapalka will remain a creative consultant. What's going on over there? Hope this doesn't spell disaster for Criterion's new IP. I'm still really excited for Garden Warfare.

Biggest Surprise video game of 2013

2013-12-17T13:31:00.001-08:00

Most Surprising Game of 2013 Award
I only played one of the games nominated for this award and that was Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. That downloadable spin-off didn't win the award, but I desperately need to play the game that did. Path of Exile really took off in the wake of a botched Diablo III. Click through for Game of the Year awards and video game news, reviews, previews, and more.

2013-12-17T13:29:00.002-08:00

Biggest Disappointment in Video Games for 2013
This year's award for most disappointing video game is without a doubt SimCity, who got strung up by an always-online requirement that was completely unnecessary. What was your biggest disappointment in 2013? Click through for the nominees and more Game of the Year awards.

2013-12-17T10:53:00.001-08:00

Best Original Game 2013
I haven't played any of the nominees for this category, but I'm hoping Steam's holiday sale allows me to pick up a few of the choices for a song. Did you play Gone Home or The Stanley Parable? Did you play Path of Exile or Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons? How about The Swapper? Which is your pick for best original game of 2013? Click the link to find out GameRevolution's

2013-12-17T10:52:00.002-08:00

Best Fighting video game of 2013
GameRevolution's staff narrowed the field down to just a few choices for best fighting game of 2013. Between Killer Instinct, Injustice, Aquapazza, Darkstalkers, and Divekick, you can probably guess which one. Click the link to find out if you were right!

New Video Games for the week of December 15th

2013-12-17T10:51:00.001-08:00

New Video Games December 15th - December 21st, 2013
The year is slowing down but I'm still dying to get my hands on these final Sega 3D Classics. Shinobi III and Streets of Rage are out this week and I can't decide between the two. I promised myself I'd only buy two of these 3D-remakes but I'll probably download both of these in addition to 3D Sonic the Hedgehog from last week.

Best Action-Adventure video game 2013

2013-12-17T10:49:00.003-08:00

Best Action-Adventure Game of 2013
There were a ton of action games this year and a ton of adventure games this year, but for the best Action-Adventure video game of 2013 we had to dig deep and pick between the likes of Tomb Raider, Saints Row IV, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Find out which one by clicking through to GameRevolution's best action-adventure of 2013 game of the year award.

Best Racing Game of 2013

2013-12-17T10:48:00.002-08:00

Best Racing Video Game of 2013
It was hard to pick between the simulations and the arcade racers this year, but in the end my favorite racing franchise won out with some truly addictive open-world racing gameplay. Click the link to find out which game won and which were nominated for GameRevolution's best racing game of 2013.

GameRevolution's best Sports game of 2013

2013-12-17T10:47:00.000-08:00

Best Sports Game 2013
As picked by GameRevolution.com. Click read about the best sports video game of 2013.

Best First-Person Shooter of 2013

2013-12-17T10:43:00.001-08:00

Best Shooter Video Game 2013
GameRevolution's end of the year awards are rolling out. This one was published yesterday. We picked DICE's Battlefield 4, simply because it put on the best show and had the best overall gameplay for shooters this year.

The comments very quickly decried Bioshock Infinite as the best shooter this year, and while it would have been an interesting pick, the gameplay itself isn't on Battlefield 4's level. The story and characters and world are great, but Battlefield 4 has the hands-down best shooter gameplay of the year and with massive maps, 64-player multiplayer on PC and next-gen consoles, this one seemed like a no-brainer.

Click the link to read the full award, find out GameRev's nominees and respond yourself.

Can your computer run SteamOS?

2013-12-13T16:24:00.001-08:00

SteamOS Hardware Requirements Reveal What Kind Of Computer Will Run SteamOS In Your Living Room
I am probably not going to be the first person who throws together a computer for SteamOS. I use an Apple computer for everything, but I'm still dying to see how Steam's entry into entertainment-center computing shakes up the PC gaming space. I think Valve has made some incredibly smart moves with Steam and their games, but I'd really like to see them get better at putting out the games we all want to play so badly like Half-Life 3.

Click the link for SteamOS hardware requirements.

This week's GameRevolution Podcast

2013-12-13T15:10:00.000-08:00

GameRevolution Radio 95: Fallout 4 Fallout, VGX Reactions, Xbox One vs PS4 Call of Duty, Mailbag!
This week's episode of GameRevolution's podcast was fun and relaxed. I think we're all going into hibernation mode so it may sound a little chilly at first, but once we get into the swing of things with Fallout 4 and VGX reactions, I think the show is pretty good. Have a listen!

GTA Online Deathmatch & Race Creator Live

2013-12-11T16:02:00.001-08:00

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V Adds Deathmatch And Race Creation Suites To GTA Online, Now Available For Download

I played a little more Grand Theft Auto V this past weekend but I might have to jump back in today to mess around with the new content creation suite that Rockstar has added. GTA Online already has a ton of varied missions and multiplayer maps, but I think things are going to get even crazier now that the player base can create their own shootouts and drag races around San Andreas. Click the link to learn more about the Creator package available for download in Grand Theft Auto V today.