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NYR: Jet Set Radio HD & Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram
Before I move on to the meat of these reviews I want to share a little bit of dialogue that took place while browsing through a game store’s selection (I was looking for a component cable and just...
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AR Podcast #7: The Best of the Best & all the Rest (2012)
We were going to use a sweet Eric Roberts picture, but went with this instead 2012 was a hazy year in which we welcomed another writer, drank an inordinately large amount, swore at a picture of the...
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NYR: Sequels and more sequels
Apologies in advance: this was meant to be an article about Greed Corp and a tribute to the brave men and women who played it at a bar called Cine Express. That article is taking a little bit longer...
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AR Podcast #8: The Casting Dead
Shuffling and moaning like a very dead Walker, the Arcadian Rhythms crew bumble through their experiences with Tell Tale Games’ award-winning adventure game The Walking Dead. Potter, Shaun and AJ talk...
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NYR: Greed Corp
Several years ago some friends and I held little get together at a bar in downtown Montreal. The idea was to hook up an Xbox 360 to one of the establishment’s 40 inch TVs and play a string of 4-player...
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The Man with the Golden Guns
The Man here would have to be me. No, this isn’t a James Bond review (the image on the home page should have been a strong indicator), it’s my first impressions of SEGA’s GOLDEN GUN, the action-packed...
View ArticleDamsels in Distress: my own regressive crap
Hello: this article is in place of the usual Friday New Year’s Resolution update. Next week will feature God of War, but in the meantime I thought I would write about Feminist Frequency, a new YouTube...
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Far Cry 2: No One Deserves To Be Here More Than You
The odds are quite good that you are utterly sick of reading about Far Cry 2. Every games writer and most of their dogs seem to have written something about it. It’s a widely-discussed, thoroughly...
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NYR: God of War
Welcome to another instalment in my New Year’s Resolution series, which is seeing me dust off the forsaken games within my backloggery list and give them one more chance… in an attempt to see some of...
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McPixel: a Deep Textual Analysis
McPixel, released to much fanfare in 2012, is the first official release by SOS, the one-man indie studio brainchild of Mikolaj Kaminski. It is far from his first game: in the preceding two years...
View ArticleNYR: XNA on the Hombre
Realising I had the potential to finish a lot of games in a very short period of time I took a look at what was in my Xbox Indie Game selection and delved into whatever looked like it would only take...
View ArticleNi No Kuni: A Personal Reflection
Ni No Kuni is a JRPG. That doesn’t quite do it justice. Ni No Kuni is a JRPG: it’s all children going on adventures, capturing beasties to use as your own ULTRA-KAWAII slave army, and saving the world...
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NYR: My Wrongs
In England there is an annual event called Red Nose Day which is basically a charity donation-generating event and an excuse for comedy and cabaret. My office had arranged a small charity auction...
View ArticleKilling is Harmless & ideas are free
2012′s ebook Killing is Harmless, by prolific critic Brendan Keogh, is a unique beast. It is perhaps the first effort in videogames criticism to execute a book-length close reading of a single...
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NYR Yakuza 4 companion piece: Yakuza
This piece was originally written in July 2010: it was part of a separate challenge I had laid out for myself titled 12 Games Before Christmas. I had invited people I knew and trusted to invite me to...
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NYR: Yakuza 4
It was a strange experience to re-read the piece I wrote on the first Yakuza. There is a sense of desperation to the writing and I am clearly looking to excuse the game for its shortcomings. I’ll...
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NYR: Unfinished Swan
There has been a fair bit of negativity throughout my reviews in the New Year’s Resolution series – and I can guarantee that there is still more to come – but I thought it might be nice to write about...
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We Need To Talk About Dark Souls II (Part 1)
Okay Dark Souls II. Let’s do this. We have a lot to talk about so let’s get started. Firstly, and it’s a minor point yet still important to me, can I just point out how happy I am with the Roman...
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Two guys, a conversation and Dark Souls
Dylan has changed a lot. On Monday he launched into hyperbole about how much he loved Dark Souls. He has mocked me for not ringing the second bell and has made comments about my manhood as a result....
View ArticleNYR: Revisitation writes
I began writing these two reviews separately but they ended up so thematically similar that I figured I would combine the two. This will also help make up for last week’s über-short review. These are...
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