I used to say that the biggest difference between JRPGs and Western RPGs (besides geography) was that JRPGs wanted to tell players a story, whereas WRPGs wanted to give players the tools to tell their…
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Well, 2015 is over. It was… a year, I guess. Everyone else seems to be doing these kinds of lists, so I thought I’d rattle a short one off myself. Because I have a…
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So a Japanese game that no one cared about from a series that was never very good isn’t getting an English localization. This probably has something to do with it being on two consoles,…
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Well, the grand finale of the episodic Life is Strange was released on Tuesday and the internet is already reacting to the ending. While a lot of fans enjoyed it and find it to have…
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On the last exciting episode of The Sims 2 for the Nintendo DS, a young woman emerged from the worst episode of The Dukes of Hazzard ever to find herself trapped in a small desert town where privately owned buildings…
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The Sims spinoff titles always end up kind of weird. I have a personal theory that all but two of The Sims spinoff games were actually games meant for a completely different IP that had been…
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Warning: Major spoilers for Life is Strange: Episode 2 and Episode 4 ahead. Life is Strange is a game about do-overs. If you don’t like the immediate outcome of a dialogue option or story choice, you…
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So it’s been an interesting couple of days in the gaming community. Interesting meaning dramatic, of course. So Fire Emblem: Fates was released in Japan and there has since been a ton of controversy over it and…
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With all the talk about online harassment that’s been going on over the past year, a lot more attention has been drawn to ‘swatting’, the act of calling the police with a phony tip or…
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It’s Steam Summer Sale time again, and that means quite a bit of money spending, and quite a bit more circlejerking about money spending online. And, for a sale that started only several hours…