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New games, great people, fine drinks and little Gameboy-shaped cards to purchase them with. That about sums up last week’s Ga-Ma-Yo, the fourth Game Makers Yorkshire convention, I had only been to one of the events before this one and I had walked away from it grinning like a lunatic. There had been an incredible [...]

Jake Caro is the head of an independent development team called Coded Emotion and is currently working on the team’s first major project, Anonymous Agony. He enjoys titles with heavy narratives and makes games purely out of love for them. Q. What made you decide to form Coded Emotion? Well I, for one, have always [...]

I’ve already written about how I feel that the portrayal of women in games still isn’t as good as it could be but I feel the need to revisit the issue again in light of the recent revelations that science fiction game Remember Me was passed over by many publishers for having a female protagonist. [...]

For years, I’ve been complaining that I can go into a cinema, watch a movie, and come out without knowing the name of a single character or even what the purpose of the film was. A Good Day To Die Hard, by that logic, should be a good movie. I understood the plot, I knew [...]

The phrase “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” seems rather appropriate to define my stance on this matter. While I haven’t enjoyed a Square game in years (discounting remakes), I feel obliged to rush to their aid in this battle: if only because the other side is forehead-slappingly stupid. According to Kotaku, a [...]

This week, Sam returns to indie reviews with Elementlar Rising: a science fantasy magipunk tale that’s… actually an anime-inspired RPG. This can only end one way. Game: Elementlar Rising Creator: jad4321 Genre: RPG Completion Time: Unknown Download Links: – Windows: http://www.4shared.com/file/_EecCsDA/ER1_GAME.html

When I was ten, I woke up on Christmas morning to Pokemon Silver: a game that hadn’t come out in this country at the time. It was a gift from my Uncle Richard, who had visited the States for work and had come back with the one thing that every little boy wanted. This was [...]

I once heard about a book written entirely in text messages and it gave me the idea to see if one could be done entirely in emails. I wasn’t content with just toying around with this, though. I wanted to write in a genre I haven’t written in for a long time: horror. Thus was [...]

Commenting on a trailer that came out almost a month ago may seem a bit redundant but I feel there’s a lot that still need to be said about it. You see, I’ve been rather looking forward to The Tyranny of King Washington, the upcoming Assassin’s Creed 3 DLC. I like alternate histories. “What if” [...]

No, no, no. I’m not doing this. I’m not going to entertain this moronic idea. There are Westoboro Baptist Church arguments that make more sense than this! Kindly take your stupid, misinformed, fear-mongering bigotry and get off my planet. So, apparently, the one responsible for the tragic shootings that occurred in America happened earlier this [...]