Su-per cutesy happy fun game and craft time!
It’s my dream to knit Phoenix Wright’s ‘Papa’ hat. Phoenix swaps his trademark sharp spikes and suit for a more… dressed-down look in Apollo Justice. The shocking hat covers his hair so it needs to be just as recognisable. As you probably know by now, I have a penchant for yarn and [...]

A number of games publishers made the decision five years ago that they were going to have the next big MMO hit. When it became apparent that Blizzard, as well as a few publishers in the Eastern market, were drowning in money from subscription based games that simply needed regular management and tinkering, any publisher with a decent IP, [...]

Welcome again to Stumped, your one stop blog for all puzzle game related stuff. This time I’ll be focusing on games available on the iPhone. I love my iPhone so any excuse to add more games to play on the go, is always a bonus. Here are just a few brain teasers recently released for iPhone and iPad users of [...]

Staff Writer – Ready Up
Name: Danny Russell
Age: 26
Current Location: Kuwana-shi, Mie-ken, Japan. Living in pretty much the centre of Japan makes it handy to get around, especially with Nagoya right next-door.
First gaming memory: Playing my Donkey Kong Jr. Game & Watch. If not that, then it was receiving a Korean Game Boy from a family friend with Super Mario Land, [...]

You know, I don’t think there’s a day that goes by in which I don’t think about women, or to be more precise just how fucking awesome they are. I don’t mean physically either ‒ as magnificent a spectacle as breasts are to behold, there’s far more to women than that. It’s not like anyone goes around thinking men are just [...]

For the first time we’re seeing an indie bundle provider donate all the money to charity. Indie Royale have take the plunge with four games and three albums if you pay more than the average which at the time of writing hasn’t even reached the spiralling heights of £3!!
Amongst the titles is Osmos which was nominated for four IGF awards [...]

Welcome to Lost in Translation? – the Ready Up series where we look at the rocky two-way road of media adapted from videogames and games based on films and TV shows, in a bid to decide whether the juice was worth the squeeze, or if what made the source material great in the first place got lost in translation.
While Martin [...]

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Welcome back to our feature where we aim to highlight the new releases that that our readers might be interested in!
Last time, I spoke about the big retail releases for May (such as Diablo III and Max Payne 3) and although they’ll be in your hands soon, we’ve also got a fair amount of downloadable content to look forward to. [...]

If you haven’t heard of Square (either Enix or soft) then consider me disappointed. Even if RPGs aren’t your thing, you probably know of them. Maybe you’ve played Vagrant Story on the PS1, or simply seen the Kingdom Hearts or Star Ocean series in shops. So far, Square has released 26 Final Fantasy games in total in Europe. These range from [...]

The Broken Frandroid – A literate queen,
Was a Crossword champ at the age of nineteen.
Yes, she made up her own words and threatened the judge,
If he didn’t shut up, she’d turn him to sludge!
But instead she sent pigeons to destroy his plants,
But they got lost on the way, did they end up in France?

Difficulty is a hard topic to cover (see what I did there?).  You’ve got to outline the difference between a game being difficult and a game being challenging, and even then it’s a wholly subjective topic for the most part.  I found Ninja Gaiden crushingly difficult, to the point where it became virtually impossible, but I know that there are those (freaks) [...]

Sometimes in games, there are moments where you feel truly rewarded for the effort and hard work you have put in; my other half has received just that.
He recently achieved all Final Fantasy XIV combat classes to a maximum level of 50, unlocked all the advanced jobs and completed every single related job quest, meaning he literally knows everything [...]

Where are Earth’s mightiest heroes?  Well, they are definitely on the big screen, and fragmented on our consoles, but where are the Avengers?  This time around, Martin asks why they have not been seen on our home consoles as one mighty team.  Perhaps the game was too big; perhaps the licensing would have killed off any decent stab; it’s unsure.  [...]

From Secret of Mana up ’til Dawn of Mana this bizarre series is a head-scratcher for its fans. It started back in the day when one of the greatest games ever made, Secret of Mana, was released on the SNES. It had a soundtrack of the absolute highest calibre and a uniquely charming art style. Since then the art and [...]