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PS Vita will get exclusive multiplayer game Freedom Wars in 2014

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:47:00 GMT

Next year, the PS Vita will get an exclusive multiplayer action game. Its name? Freedom Wars. Revealed in a trailer on the Japanese PlayStation Store, this game is set in some dystopian future, and features human security cameras, million-year jail sentences, and complete government control. But it also features groups of gun-toting heroes taking on enormous mechanised monsters, suggesting t...

Review: Era Deluxe

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:00 GMT

This is a freemium game review, in which we give our impressions immediately after booting a game up, again after three days, and finally after seven days. Click on the link to jump straight to day three. If you look at most of the truly successful sci-fi stories told - regardless of the medium they're told in - there's always a human element. We wouldn't care about Luke's journey on the way...

Review: Running with Friends

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:48:00 GMT

This is a freemium game review, in which we give our impressions immediately after booting a game up, again after three days, and finally after seven days. Click on the link to go straight to day three. I love the idea of the "... with Friends" series, I really do. I get to enjoy multiplayer sessions with my friends, but we don't have to go through the painful process of coordinating our schedu...

The Animal Crossing: New Leaf Diaries - Day 13

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:41:00 GMT

Next month, Nintendo will launch Animal Crossing: New Leaf on the 3DS. The Animal Crossing games have always had you live among a cosmopolitan microcosm of the animal kingdom, and used to leave you to lead a quiet life of luxury; plucking fruit, catching fish, and collecting furniture. But that's all changed. In New Leaf, you're made mayor of the village as soon as you step off the train, an...

Free-to-play flop Bombcats will put iOS indie studio Radiangames out of business

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:37:00 GMT

Inferno+ and Slydris developer Radiangames (a.k.a. Luke Schneider) has said it will cease to be a full-time game developer, largely on account of free-to-play puzzler Bombcats being a financial failure. In a blog post entitled 'Epic Fail? So Far', Schneider reveals that Bombcats received around 100,000 downloads on its best day since launch, but had fewer than 100 in-app purchases. "I don't ...

Take the fight to the undead in Plants vs Zombies Adventures on Facebook

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:27:00 GMT

After two months of closed beta testing, PopCap has launched Plants vs Zombies Adventures on Facebook. It's based on the Gold Award-winning iOS game Plants vs Zombies, a lane-based tower defence game in which garden plants fend off hordes of the undead. In this new Facebook edition of Plants vs Zombies, you'll uproot those plants and take them out on the road. In Plants vs Zombies Adventu...

Review: Tales of Illyria

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:00 GMT

Fighting Fantasy, Oregon Trail, and traditional tabletop RPGs have all had a huge influence on video game development. They've shaped the structure and tone of many adventures, and plenty of games still rely on Dungeons and Dragons rule-sets for combat and exploration. This tends to mean that most Western RPGs take place in a handful of different settings. Many are set in an early modern fictit...

GBC platforming adventure Shantae will hit eShop worldwide on June 20th

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:30:02 GMT

On its blog, WayForward has revealed that its cult classic Game Boy Color adventure Shantae will be given a new home on the 3DS Virtual Console on June 20th. The game stars a half-genie belly dancer who's charged with protecting Scuttle Town. So, when lady pirate Risky Boots attacks the town and nicks a prototype steam engine, Shantae must give chase. The purple-haired Guardian Genie can bus...

Star Command will get away teams, exploding ships, and more in forthcoming updates

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:20:00 GMT

Over on Star Command's Kickstarter page, the game's developer, War Balloon, has outlined some of its plans for upcoming updates for its starship simulator. For one, the game will be more chaotic than ever. Unattended fires will spread, and your ship will actually blow up if it takes too much damage ("we will now have a hull indicator showing how close your ship is to exploding"). That wrecks...

Time to fill your stomach

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:57:00 GMT

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