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Mantis Burn Racing PS4 Review

Mantis Burn Racing is a top-down racing game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Top-down racing games have been a tradition in the competitive driving genre for decades with the Micro Machines series certainly being the…

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Open Worlds & Metanarratives

What do Breath of the Wild, the latest Ghost Recon, and Kingdom Hearts 0.2 have in common? They have open worlds. Open world games give players freedom to explore, to play, to make their own adventure. In recent times open…

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Mass Effect Andromeda Review

Welcome to the Andromeda Initiative! I’ve left behind the Milky Way to seek out new adventures, though I can’t help but wonder if it’s too late to turn back. Mass Effect Andromeda is the fourth installment in the Mass Effect…

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Syberia 3 New Trailer Released

The latest trailer for Syberia 3 from Koalabs Studio has been released. Simply entitled ‘Story’, the new trailer reveals a little more of the story and Kate’s Relationship with the Youkol tribe. In the trailer you see Kate leave with…

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What’s In A Story: The Function of a World

Two weeks ago I deviated from my game development series and began a mini-series on what goes into a story. In the first article of this mini-series, I distinguished between story and plot, outlining the nature and purpose of storytelling.…

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Bayou Island Indie Shout Out

Are you still lamenting the end of the Monkey Island franchise and are desperate to grab some of that sea-based point ‘n’ click puzzle gaming you’ve been missing? Then it might be worth your while to check out Bayou Island,…