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• Why Video Game Developers Haven’t Rejected Tolkien

  15 Jun 2013

  

  1 0    Written by Arbruk Released on 15 June, 2013 If you know anything about fantasy, it probably involves Tolkien. The father of fantasy pervades nearly every fantasy-themed video game out there. Yet fantasy literature, for quite a few years, has rejected the “Tolkien Model” of elves, dwarves, dark Read more →

• Arcana Files: The Ranked Assassins of No More Heroes

  14 Jun 2013

  

  0 0    Written by Dark Side Released 14/6/13 Today’s Arcana Files will be a bit different. Normally, I look at a single character or two that are closely intertwined. However, that makes it difficult to discuss characters who don’t get much screen time. So, today will have multiple subjects Read more →

• Resonance (PC)

  8 Jun 2013

  

  0 0    Written by Dark Side Released 8/6/13 Time for yet another game from my little indie section on Steam, and this one is really something special. Made over the span by Vince Twelve and a very talent group of indie scene names, Resonance is easily one of the Read more →

• Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally

  6 Jun 2013

  

  1 0    Written by Dark Side Released 6/6/13 AKA: The dream of every kid in a wheelchair ever. As a bird now. It should be no secret that I love Code Geass (made especially obvious if you’re reading this on my blog), but I’ve never gotten around to checking Read more →

• Homunculus

  2 Jun 2013

  

  0 0    Written by Dark Side Released 2/6/13 Strap in, guys, because we’re in for a weird one today. When I say weird, I mean really, really, really weird. “I saw a sand woman give birth to herself from her sand snatch. I’ve seen some shit.” Homunculus comes from Read more →

• Arcana Files: Rukia Kuchiki

  1 Jun 2013

  

  1 0    Written by Dark Side Released 1/6/13 I was planning to do a study on Rukia before, but it never really came through. I had trouble really figuring her out, until recently. I was watching a filler episode of Bleach on Toonami because nostalgia, one where an old Read more →

• Arcana Files: James “Jimmy” Hopkins

  28 May 2013

  

  0 0    Written by Dark Side Released 28/5/13 Bully is an interesting game. Rockstar being Rockstar, you would expect them to make a game that delivers as the title says, but they never actually do this exactly since Grand Theft Auto: San Andres. With that game, instead of playing Read more →

• Arcana Files: Robert “Bob” Richards

  24 May 2013

  

  0 0    Written by Dark Side Released 24/5/13 There was a time I hated Bob has a character. He first appeared in Tekken 6 and I wrote him off as the token funny fat character (just look at Capcom’s Rufus from Street Fighter IV to understand my frustration). I Read more →

• Akumetsu

  17 May 2013

  

  1 0    Written by Dark Side Released 17/5/13 If you had the power to destroy evil, what would you do? If you had the power to destroy evil that was making your friends and family suffer, would you? In Akumetsu, the main character gives the answer of “Absolutely.” “I Read more →

• Peggle (PC)

  11 May 2013

  

  0 0    Written by Dark Side Released 11/5/13 Peggle. Oh god, Peggle. The sun is happy to steal your free time. This little time waster was made by PopCap Games, the masters of what has been termed the “casual” game. The idea is that the games they make are Read more →