3D Dot Game Heroes: review

If the art style is the aspect of the game to most immediately sidle up to you and whisper sweet nothings in your proverbial ear, the script follows very quickly. This is a game that very rarely takes itself seriously, and is all the better for it.

Permanence and Decision Making in Video Games

A recent magazine article got me thinking about how games impose a sense of irreversibility onto the player, and as an extension of that, how developers utilize player led decisions in their games.

3D Dot Game Heroes USA Trailer

We’ve shown you a load of 3D Dot Game Heroes Trailers already, but this time there’s a major difference… It’s in English! Well American anyway, but close enough.

Shin Megami Tensei franchise headed to DS

Megami Tensei franchise back in the loop with Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. Atlus promises originality and a more mature approach.

Demon’s Souls (North American release): review

Souls are found on the bodies of fallen adventurers or, more often, taken from the people/things you kill – and killing even the weakest of enemies is nothing to be taken lightly.

Demon’s Souls (North American version): hands-on preview

The first thing to hit you about Demon’s Souls is atmosphere, which it has in spades.

Demon’s Souls

Hard as nails forged in the bowels of hell, this is a game that plays you back.