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I suppose I could write I enjoy games and such, but that would be a point in redundancy. So yay games and such.
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Cash For Sins: The Church Indulgence Returns In A 9Yr-Olds Kickstarter

I periodically will stumble across items that make me do a “double take,” meaning I check it and then I check it once more for good measure, because the thing I saw is hopefully not the thing I think I …

The Dead Island: Riptide reaction was an equality fail

Deep Silver's provocative collector's edition was quickly assaulted by online media and communities. This is not how equality works.

Why The Custom Language OS Is A Bad Thing

 

The following little irk in our realm of seemingly unimportant issues came to me during a fit of insomnia, where either everything starts to click or is inane drivel. You decide. In any case, it was triggered by events …

PC USB Trick – Front vs Back

I love PCs. Even though this setup is now over 6 years old and has been falling apart at the seams for over a year, I still manage to find new things every so often. Whether it’s new features I …

Catherine Spends Her Birthday In Europe

It’s been a year since Atlus released their controversial game, Catherine. While only being available in Japan at the time, the story and difficulty level of Catherine gained a lot of attention quickly and a localization effort was made to …

Harvest Fishing a.k.a. River King: Mystic Valley | A casual pick-up

Putting the word ‘harvest’ in front of any game revolving in the slightest towards the farming culture has paid off for games in the past. Harvest Fishing tells the unlikely tale of a young boy, whose sister has fallen into …

Sengoku Giveaway Contest

Sengoku, a feudal Japan war game from Paradox Interactive, whom also created great titles like Europa Universalis III and Magicka. Well, if you like oriental things, war and a side of humor, then we got you covered. For a chance …

Metal Slug – A rollercoaster ride without any downtime

The world wasn’t always all about Call Of Duty, believe it or not. In the earlier years, shooters mainly consisted of 2D run and gun games; probably because the technology didn’t allow for any realism yet. It’s in this category …

SAMURAI SHODOWN – Review

Samurai Shodown is only one of many fighters in the Neo Geo line-up, but there is one thing that it does different. Set In feudal Japan, the authentic settings of yore get accompanied by characters wearing the appropriate kimonos and …

Total Overdose – With a B for Burrito, AY AY AY!

Come here, hombre and leave the sombrero. You know what? Keep the sombrero, because it’s about to get muy caliente up in here…ese. To be perfectly honest, most of this review should continue this way; with salsa and tequila poured …

COMIC: Socialism or Capitalism?

There is a certain redeeming quality to having to play Civilization V on a completely decrepit, ancient PC. During turns, it takes the bedazzled adding machine about 10 minutes to process all the other players moves, meaning there’s a lot …

Valve, Thank 2K And Sid Meier For All This Cash

This is a continuation of this blog.
 

And there it is: It only took a few days for Steam's devious marketing to crack my 'strong' willpower and make me give in to their consumerist ways. What swayed me? The …

Steam Wants Me In The Poorhouse

It's official! My first purchase through Steam has finally clamored my descent into absolute destitution. Being able to purchase things at the drop of a (TF2 reference) hat is by far the worst idea ever for consumers. And I mean …

Canceled & Forgotten Game Glory

Over the decades that we now are able to enjoy video games, there have been countless releases with an even more insurmountable number of fans. For eight generations, there have been good and bad games by the hundreds, to come …

SUPER SIDEKICKS – Neo Geo Station Review | Gooooooooal!

Back in the ‘90s, arcades were filled to the brim with brightly colored lights and teens, both making equally loud noises. The cacophony of sound ranged from explosions, fighting screams, crazy gun games, racers and most of all soccer games. …

You Don’t Know Jack! TWICE!

Rare are the men called Cookie; heck, even the women with that name have only been seen in fluorescent lighting whilst enjoying a career in ‘exotic’ dancing. But as the quizmaster in the trivia party game You Don’t Know Jack, …

Plants Vs Zombies DS – SPUDOW!

In the good old ‘zombies equals gold’ scenario, we see many games come and go that simply use brain munchers as a plot device. PopCap Games does pretty much the same thing in their colorful tower defense game Plants Vs …

CNN Says “3DS: No Match For iPhone”

Oh CNN, we have no idea if you’re trying to gap the generations that never tune into your channel or if you’re just doing a Wall Street version of trolling. But what is certain is that you have no real …

DARKSPORE – Preview | Needs More Hype

The universe of Darkspore has seen genetic manipulation grow severely out of hand. At first, Crogenitors scientists were content with creating the ultimate army of genetically superior creatures, known as Living Weapons. But then they discovered Exponential DNA; a substance …

GEMINI RUE – A Film Noir masterpiece come to life in game form.

A dark future awaits us. A protagonist, codename Delta-Six, finds himself strapped to a surgical chair, with 3 men surrounding him. He is helpless as they converse about erasing his memory. Do they not know he is conscious? Do they …

Hot, kinky and deadly lesbian nuns, anyone?


It's about to get hot in Twin Blades.
 

Hot, kinky and deadly lesbian nuns, anyone? It’s with the premise that even the slightest sexual innuendo draws attention that Sanuk Games released Twin Blades. But also adding the formula of …

BEARDS AHOY! – Delve Deeper Review

You have men and then you have real men; men with beards and pickaxes that spend their days toiling away in the dirt and destroy monsters. We call these guys Dwarves and in Delve Deeper, they slave themselves to bring …

APOX Upon Your Review!

And it all started with an idea. That’s what APOX's epitaph will read one day, long after everyone has forgotten about it.  As modern warfare is a crowded theme to say the least, it’s not easy to pick either a …

FAT CHANCE! – Fat Princess (PSP) Review

Fat Princess: Fistful Of Cake is one of the bigger campaigns, regarding Sony's attempt to revitalize their handheld system. After a successful release for PS3, a new strategy game was created for PSP, with an updated campaign, maps and so …

AbracadabrAARGH! – Magicka Review (PC)

Paradox Interactive is mostly known for their work on very serious and complex strategy games in line of Europa Universalis, where you take on the role of a dictator and manage an empire with your vast knowledge. This is no …

Coming In 3 Laps Late: Super Mario Kart Review

What can be said about Super Mario Kart that most of us don't know already? I'd think very little; everybody knows this is a quality title. From small to big and young to old, the whole world knows Mario Kart …

Comic: Leap Of Faith

It's time for morbidity and humor: In an attempt to act like Wednesday's funeral wasn't real, I spent all my time and attention to complete my very first web comic ever Tuesday. The final drawing is a bit more crude …

Debate: Where Does Violence Lay? – The Video Game Stigma

I'm sure you're all aware that recently video games have been under a certain amount of criticism. It's even been targeted to such extent, that the Supreme Court had to bow their heads over the matter, after the California law …

INTERVIEW: RoflGames

[Editor's Note: I recently started looking into Independant Developers. After doing some research, I found a developer who was busy creating a Fable demake. The love of both genres compelled me to do an interview, to which he agreed. 

HD: Horrid Duplicate or Handy Design? – PART 2

 - The first part can be found here. Read it and continue here when you are done.

Now, let’s go into detail in some games in specific and whether or not it’s a good idea to plant this on a …

HD: Horrid Duplicate or Handy Design? – PART 1

High Definition has already set in a while ago. Most people love the addition of watching things in advanced resolutions and that's all dandy for them. Movies have long since picked up on the matter and started releasing their work, …

R.U.S.E. – VIDEO PREVIEW

"Video edit hell overshadows any tagline I had prepared – Daav"

Developer: Eugen Systems
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Platforms: PC, XBOX 360, PS3
Genre: Action, Real Time strategy, Historic

My apologies for the tardyness, but please enjoy …

VIDEO PREVIEW – Lost Horizon (point and click)

"Lost Horizon is a game worth looking out for"

Developer: Animation Arts
Publisher: Deep Silver
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Platforms: PC
Genre: Point and Click, Adventure, Puzzle

Here's another video preview, for Lost Horizon this time.

 


Daav Valentaten, …

PREVIEW: Victoria II Demo

Victoria II calls itself a grand strategy game, based in the early 19th century at the dawn of modern times. Starting from 1836, you’ll lead a nation through absolutism and into innovation. Set in the beginning of the industrial boom …

Ys Seven Coding Grievance

Author's note: This was sent today at 9:35 AM, GMT+1 time. The address was taken out for privacy reasons. Otherwise, this mail was actually sent towards comments@xseedgames.com in this entirety with the title "Ys Seven Gripe.", with minor adjustments to 

The Legend Of Prince Valiant!

Developer Ocean once was a powerhouse that grabbed any brand it could as fast as possible. Like EA in the present day, they burst out game after game, but with quite a low success rate. Hell, these are the guys …

MODNATION RACERS – Demo VIDEO Review

What the title says. First ever. Enjoy.

MODNATION RACERS – PSP Demo Review

It took more than 20 hours, as I went a little overboard on it, so I'd appreciate some reactions and such.

Thanks.

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3DS PREVIEW IN 3D!!! – EXTRA! EXTRA! Daavpuke Game News!

Remember E3, where people complained that you couldn't market the 3D aspect to an audience? Well, with a little ingenuity, this is a problem of the past. In the links below you can watch 2 videos in full 3D to …

TALES OF ETERNIA (PSP) – Review

Hey! Let's review current gen for once. But don't get used to it!

We Europeans don't get to experience the glory of Japanese games a lot and so RPGs have always been in shortage on PSP. In fact, I don't …