Of lots of Christmas cheer.
Happy New Year everyone! The dust has settled on a very family-oriented Christmas for me at IC Towers; and the house was declared a no-games-zone by a girlfriend intent on more social interactions during the festive period. As a result,
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Those that frequent this quiet corner of the Internet will notice with some alarm that it’s even quieter than usual. The date of the last post reads, rather depressingly, as October 23rd. So it’s time to face facts – the
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Of superheroes and innumerable deaths.
Dark Souls has a lot to answer for. Sinking hour after fruitless hour into dying time and time again on From Software’s punishing dungeon crawl has left us time-bereft. We hadn’t even realised that we’d amassed a small pile of
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High-quality prints available for purchase.
Videogame Minimalism designs have been available as t-shirts for awhile. Now, they're available as posters too!
Of horror games and hilariously-bad ones.
There’s little method to our madness this week. Every single game we picked up is for a different system than the last. And, not content with that, we threw another system in for good measure, in the form of a
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One of the most useful tools in the reviewer’s arsenal is that of comparison; the ability to draw on past experiences and previous games in order to give context to the title at hand. Although some of the underlying hack
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Of imported goodies and free gifts.
If we were to offer a theme for our IC Collection Update this week, it would have to be ‘impatience’. Such was our excitement for gorgeous-looking oddities Catherine and El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron, that we decided we couldn’t
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We take a look back at 2001 title Onimusha: Warlords for the PS2, and relive the striking similarities with another of Capcom's classic franchises.
Stunning hi-res artworks.
Duncan Harris loves videogame art. On his site, Dead End Thrills, he posts extraordinary hi-res images from well-known (and some obscure) games, applying principles of photography to every shot whilst also stripping away the technical constraints that formed the final
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Of games we've never even heard of.
We kick off this update with a confession. It was only very recently (after idly sifting through the comments on a Game Informer post about a Resident Evil anniversary collection) we found out that, despite not playing PS2 games, PS3
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