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Consider, if you will, the humble JRPG. Since the “J” in the genre name stands for “Japanese”, you’d be forgiven…

It is traditionally agreed by critics and writers that keeping a consistent tone throughout a story is crucial to communicating…

Simulators are a strange and fascinating genre. If you were to go back in time and tell the gamers of…

Well, this is an unexpected twist. Utawarerumono is a visual novel series with some light tactical elements that’s been trundling…

Rally driving is a terrifying prospect. For those of us who’ve never tried it or never been interested in trying…

There are some game developers who are known for creating a single type of game so well that it’s almost…

If you were to imagine kart racers as dinosaurs, Mario Kart would be a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This monster franchise has…

Racing games based on the MotoGP motorcycle class have had a long and fairly bumpy ride. Their humble beginnings can…

Grand Theft Auto has quite a lot to answer for. There’s only so many times a series can influence an…

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Kerbal. Its five-year mission: to attempt to create a…

What’s your favourite JRPG franchise? This is a question that provokes fierce debate among many lovers of the genre. It’s…

Post-apocalypse is potentially an incredibly rich setting. The world could end in so many delightfully varied ways that to keep…

There’s quite a fierce debate among us here regarding whether snooker is a sport or a game. Some of us…

Zombies aren’t exactly a new concept. Debatably, the first ever zombie movie was Victor Halperin’s 1932 opus White Zombie, but…

There was a time when every multiplayer game that darkened the doorways of the major consoles had to have a…

Norse mythology is fertile ground for video games. All the drama and violence of poetic Norse sagas translates perfectly to…

As a fighting game franchise, Dead or Alive has been unfairly overlooked across its twenty-three year (!) existence. The series…

From Pacific Rim to MechWarrior, pop culture has a justifiable fascination with human-piloted mechs. Japanese anime is replete with mech…

Remember Night Trap? If you don’t, it was an “interactive movie game” released in 1992, back in the Sega CD…

Motorcycle racing is at once terrifying and exhilarating as a prospect. There’s nothing more seat-of-the-pants than hurtling through open terrain…

When additional characters are added to a fighting game, it must be an absolute nightmare to balance them. So much…

Keeping a franchise going through multiple console generations must be a mammoth task. Gaming franchises come and go according to…

It’s an unfortunate fact of gaming life that some games are overshadowed by their circumstances. Duke Nukem Forever may be…

It’s taken a long time for the visual novel to become well-regarded in the mainstream Western press. Sterling examples of…

In today’s triple-A gaming world, developers are asking themselves the same question over and over again: is it better to…

We all need a bit of indulgence every now and then. And in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, what better…

Motorbike lovers have had a rough ride when it comes to video games. It’s not that their favourite sport is…

Variety, it has been said, is the spice of life. Nothing’s ever fun if it’s monotonous, and throwing something unexpected…

Singing in social situations is a tricky beast. If you’re an extrovert, you probably relish the moments when your inner…

On paper, a multiplayer online experience based in the Fallout world seems like a no-brainer. After all, these post-apocalyptic adventures…

It’s usually in the smaller moments that we really start to appreciate what a video game can achieve. Sure, many…