Four Leaf Studios This is Ikezawa Hanako. She’s the burn victim. This morning a game called Katawa Shoujo finally debuted after years in development. The half-decade-long gestation of the thing is pretty interesting, but what’s more intriguing is the game’s subject matter. Katawa Shoujo is a “visual novel” (translation: a usually Japanese, anime-style adventure game […]
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The 2011 Mercury Videogame Awards
Another year, another opportunity to pimp the stuff we like!
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There Is No Way Grand Theft Auto III Should Work This Well
Rockstar Games Apple reinvents prostitute murder. Christmas now passed, odds are solid that many of you are sporting new toys. Given that our audience of six-year-olds is woefully small — we just can’t crack that damn Bionicle demographic — I’m going to assume this means shiny new electronics, and since you’re all members of the […]
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Have Another Game Of Thrones Trailer (Again, It’s Not The TV Show)
Wait, didn’t we already have one of these things yesterday? Yes, yes we did, and yet Atlus is like a wildly capitalist Santa Claus, dropping presents to all the good lil’ boys and girls huddled around the completely anachronistic Yule Log, hoping against hope for another glimpse of the upcoming Game Of Thrones videogame. And […]
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Have A New Game Of Thrones Trailer (Not That Game Of Thrones, The Other One)
Sorry to get your hopes up, but this clip has nothing to do with HBO’s TV series. Instead it’s for the upcoming epic roleplaying videogame of the same name, based on the same series of novels and sharing a few key actors. (Y’know, actually now that I think of it, this clip has a whole […]
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BAFTA Guru: Will Wright Says Smart Things About Game Addiction
Tired of old people railing against the dangers of videogame addiction? Do you roll your eyes every time a middle-aged mother of three likens Halo to heroin? Does the sight of Joe Lieberman make you ball up your fists involuntarily? While we here at The Portland Mercury cannot condone any sort of Senatorial fisticuffs, we […]
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Review: King of Fighters XIII
Atlus/SNK Playmore Iori had that look way before it was cool. It’s been more than two years since the last King of Fighters entry. April 2009 saw the wildly heralded debut of King of Fighters XII, a title that earned a massive amount of pre-release hype almost entirely based on its gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D animation. […]
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What The Hell Atari?
Growing up in the 80s and early 90s I was exposed to a lot of bizarre videogame advertisements. Japan’s Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past dance off? The creepy-as-hell proto-CGI NES ad? That’s our collective childhood boys and girls. Shit was weird. As a result, nothing much from the world of videogame advertising […]
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The Spike TV Video Game Awards Were Terrible
Spike TV How sad is it that the Spike demographic was born after Hot Shots! Part Deux? If any single moment could serve as a summary of the entire awards show, it would be when a paid actor, dressed in military fatigues, forcefully pantomimed the act of teabagging on Call of Duty developer Michael Condrey […]
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Unexpectedly, Bastion Is Now On Chrome
Supergiant Games He’s less grumpy when he’s shooting stuff Presumably via witchcraft, developer Supergiant Games has ported its critically beloved action-adventure Bastion to Google Chrome. Yes, Google Chrome the web browser. Even weirder? It works exactly as well as the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game that were released earlier this year to […]
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(Another) Nintendo Classic
I’d complain about the recycled ideas in Mario Kart 7, if only they weren’t so damn good.
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Tomorrow, Your Xbox Becomes A Cable Box
Bethesda Softworks I miss the Indian Head Test Card. Back in October I reported on Microsoft’s plan to turn the Xbox 360 into a media hub. Streaming video, music; the company basically wants the gaming machine to become a viable replacement for the cable box. At that time, information was limited, but with the next […]