Earlier this year, Sony made the extremely unpopular announcement that it would be closing the digital stores for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, removing any way to buy digital goods for those systems. Unsurprisingly, it sparked a lot of blowback—despite their age, both systems still have passionate and active user …
Mary Skelter: Nightmares is one of my favourite dungeon crawlers in a long time. Granted, I don’t play a huge number of them and I may have missed some other gems over the years, but I can’t think of any other dungeon crawler that’s captivated me as much as Mary …
Although it’s almost certainly a coincidence, the timing of the release of Collar X Malice couldn’t be more apt. Particularly in America, but across the globe, there’s a growing distrust of law enforcement by the very people the law is meant to protect. We’re seeing fascist movements gaining prominence, civil …
The PlayStation Vita is a great console for fans of yuri (lesbian romance) games – at least, in Japan it is. In the West, yuri is flourishing on PC, but options for Vita owners have been limited, despite the success of heterosexual-oriented romance games like Hakuoki and Code: Realize. Fortunately …
Many will come to Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds for the beautiful boys, but what struck me most about the game is its attention to detail and historical accuracy. Note: There are some minor spoilers in this review. It’s bizarre to me that video games haven’t really tapped into the potential of …
A Rose in the Twilight is a dark fairy tale puzzle platformer that’s beautiful, violent, bleak, and uplifting, all at the same time. Masayuki Furuya is quickly making a name for himself as a game designer worth paying attention to, at least for people who enjoy abstract, artistic games. He …
Looking at screenshots or even video footage of Yomawari: Night Alone, you might not expect a particularly creepy game. With its chibi character designs and isometric 2D world, it looks adorable, but that’s a big part of what makes it so unsettling. Japanese horror has a long history of twisting …
After starting a semi-regular feature about comics I’m reading last week in Now Reading, doing something similar for my other go-to pastime – video games – was probably inevitable. Introducing… Now Playing, a quick look at some of the games I’ve been playing lately. Most of my free time over …
