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Unicorn Overlord

Japanese video game developer Vanillaware is synonymous with gripping fantasy stories, memorable RPG experiences and detailed and creative 2.5D visuals paralleled by almost no other game. We last saw a game from the studio half a decade ago, deviating...

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

In addition to being one of the defining RPGs of the fifth generation of video game consoles, Final Fantasy VII set the standards for RPGs and 3D gaming in the years following its release. It had a mammoth impact when it...

Let’s School

From running hospitals and developing resorts to running cities and ultimately playing god - the simulation genre of video games has experiences tailored towards pretty much any creative pursuit gamers have in mind. But while Two Point Studios thrived...

BlazBlue: Entropy Effect

Having played virtually all mainline instalments in the BlazBlue franchise since its original 2010 PAL region release of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, playing BlazBlue: Entropy Effect was a tad surreal at first. Developed separately in collaboration with Arc System Works by 91Act, the team behind...

Beauty and the Beast the Musical’s 2024 Brisbane (QPAC) Season

Nearly three decades after its Australian premiere in 1995, Beauty and the Beast the Musical officially opened at QPAC last night for its inaugural Brisbane season, the second step of the 2023-2024 Australian tour that began in Sydney in mid-2023. For...

Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Who here remembers White Knight Chronicles, the short-lived RPG franchise from Level-5 and Sony Interactive Entertainment from back in the PlayStation 3's life cycle, which balanced delivery of a main storyline with a fun and approachable quest system that drew...

Persona 3 Reload

As someone who spent substantially longer tracking down a copy of Persona 3 on the PlayStation 2 than the time to fully complete it, it is warming to see the game finally available and readily accessible on store shelves in its...

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

While Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has never managed to let main protagonist Kazuma Kiryu off a very short leash, even with Yakuza 6: The Song of Life being the perfect "out" for the long-running protagonist, they have managed to diversify themselves...

TEKKEN 8

Bandai Namco Entertainment making the decision to forgo the last generation of consoles in favour of making TEKKEN 8 a purely new-generation fighting game experience was, in my opinion, the best one they could have made. With a fighting game series...

Flare’s Figure of Kanaria from Rozen Maiden

From its manga origins spanning two arcs both untimely cut, to two anime chronologies that ultimately went nowhere with either, Rozen Maiden was probably not the most fortunate of PEACH-PIT's multimedia franchises. But from the memes it spawned, to its en...

SINoALICE Illustration & Story Works 2017-2021

As of noon tomorrow (JST), the mobile RPG game SINoALICE will no longer be in service anywhere in the world, on any platform. "The Worst of All Stories" chronicling the unfortunate and maddening efforts of fairy tale characters to resurrect their...

TV Animation Cardcaptor Sakura Archives

Whether watching it in Japanese as Cardcaptor Sakura (カードキャプターさくら), the heavily westernised Cardcaptors, or if you were in one of the few countries that retained the Cardcaptors dub with a few differences such as proper episode orders and a localised opening sequence - the late-90s/early-2000s morning...