A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Japan
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This remake of the excellent 2009 visual novel is essentially a playable version of the 2011 anime series.
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The NES Encyclopaedia and Japansoft: An Oral History are both set for release next year.
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I wrote a feature for Eurogamer on the Casio Loopy – a console for girls with a built-in sticker printer.
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Short answer? I doubt it. Although it might just scrape through. Kotaku has reported that Final Fantasy XV sold 670,471 copies in Japan at retail in its first week. That might sound a lot, but it’s well down on the sales figures of previous entries. Final Fantasy XIII sold 1,516,532 copies in Japan in its…
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A while back, I was curious as to which games have sold the most overall, so I found myself browsing through a list of the best-selling titles of all time. It included the usual suspects – Super Mario, Call of Duty, etc. – but one name jumped out at me: J.B. Harold. I’d never heard…
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This week on Spiffing Reads we start off with that old bone of contention – mainstream press railing on about how games rot your brain. Why Mainstream Reporting on Video Games is Still Often So Negative (Kotaku UK) A brutal but enlightening look at why games still get bad coverage in the mainstream press. Short…
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This week on Spiffing Reads, we kick off with a look at how magic in video games is in need of a radical overhaul. Putting the magic back into magic in fantasy games (Eurogamer) It amazes me just how influential the ideas of Tolkien are in the modern age. We still have countless video-game dungeon…
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History is a sensitive topic to approach with me. No, I’m not a denier of the holocaust or anything quite so dramatic or silly, rather I find the lens we tend to look at history through to be a tiny bit skewed. From the outset I find it a tad odd that Australian history wasn’t…
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I picked up Weapon Shop de Omasse for a pittance in a Nintendo eShop sale a few months back, and I’ve dipped into it a few times over the past few months. It’s the perfect example of a game with a winning idea that’s let down by poor execution. The set up is that you’re…
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All this excitement over the launch of the new 3DS in the UK has put me in mind of those fantastic Japanese adverts that came out last October. For the launch of the new 3DS in Japan, Nintendo brought in Japanese pop singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and created the most colourful, upbeat advert I’ve ever…
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So Sim City wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. I feel so sorry for all those budding town planners and socialites hoping to get to know their citizens and build the utopian dream. Where will they go now to fullfil their dreams? Well dreamers, you’re in luck because the PS2 has just what…
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Sir Gaulian’s recent article on ‘crowd combat’ games immediately made me think of Chaos Legion, a long-forgotten PS2 game from Capcom and the first gaming gem to be uncovered in The Cellar. Chaos Legion isn’t a perfect game by any means, but it is a lot of fun, and it’ll be right up your street…
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