Category: Challenging Conventions

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Challenging Conventions 4: Shattered Memories ā€“ A Silent Hill Story in Pictures

This week marks the release of one of the strangest games to come out of a major studio in quite a long time: Konami’s and…

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Challenging Conventions 3: Unlimited, Unpredictable & Uncharted

In the last edition of Challenging Conventions, I wrote about a game that mixed and matched genres questionably. This time I’m talking about a game…

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Challenging Conventions 2: The Enigma of Brutal Legend, the RTS.

What do you get when you mix real-time strategy, hack-and-slash action, role-playing game-style leveling, and spell casting? The answer is Brütal Legend, a game seemingly…

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Challenging Conventions 1: The Hug Button

Gameloft is quickly becoming the face of big-budget gaming on the iPhone, with an impressive array of titles like Modern Combat and the online-enabled UNO….

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Turning words into pixels

Books into games? The game industry is more and more becoming open to games that come from different types of media. The most familiar of…

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