Category: Features
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Book Review: Unraveling Resident Evil
Unraveling Resident Evil: Essays on the Complex Universe of the Games and Films Publisher: Zombie Studios Cost: $38.00 (Paperback)/$13.99 (Kindle/PDF) Page Count: 249 Pages Release Date: 04/15/14 Get it Here: Drive Thru RPG OR Amazon.com It’s always interesting, to me, when people opt to create books about the video game medium that go beyond the…
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Book Review: The Herald: The Sundering, Book VI
The Herald: The Sundering, Book VI Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 336 Pages Cost: $7.99 (Kindle)/$27.95 (MSRP for Hardcover)/$17.68 (Amazon Hardcover Price) Release Date: 06/03/2014 Get it Here: Amazon.com Well here we are. After six books and four adventures, The Sundering is completed as The Forgotten Realms have officially moved from Dungeons &…
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Anime Review: Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress Premium Edition
Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress Premium Edition Studio: TMS Entertainment Publisher: Nippon Ichi Runtime: 110 Minutes Cost: $39.99 Release Date: 05/06/2014 Get it HereNISA America’s Online Store Back on 10/20/2012, an anime entitled Fusé Teppō Musume no Torimonochō was released in Japan. It is based on the novel series Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, which has an…
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Book Review: Sail Away, Sweet Sister (Shadowrun)
Book Review: Sail Away, Sweet Sister (Shadowrun) Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs Cost: $1.99 Page Count: 33 Release Date: 4/22/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Sail Away, Sweet Sister is the latest piece of “enhanced fiction” for Shadowrun. Enhanced Fiction simply means that at the end of the short story you get stats for the characters you…
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Review: HyperX Cloud Headset
HyperX Cloud Publisher: Kingston Cost: $149.99 (Amazon)/$99.99 (Newegg) Release Date: 04/30/14 Get it Here: Amazon.com or here Newegg.com While I’m certainly a big fan of music, in gaming or otherwise, I’ve never been much of an audiophile; that is, while I love to listen to music, game effects, and so on, I don’t own any…
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Unboxing of The Witch and the Hundred Knight Limited Edition
What did you think I’d ever run out of things to unbox. Well actually, I did. Like, just now. This is the last one for awhile. Until next month at least! Anyways, next on the docket is The Witch and the Hundred Knight Limited Edition. This set is no longer available now, but it’s an…
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EvilleCon 2014: Interview with Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged Genius Martin Billany
This year’s EvilleCon is happening March 28-30 at the Clarion Inn on Highway 41N in Evansville, Indiana. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in a position to be able to go this year, but I was able to nab a few interviews with some of this year’s visiting guests. I think it says a lot that while I never really…
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Book Review: The Sentinel: The Sundering Book V (Dungeons & Dragons)
The Sentinel: The Sundering Book V Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Cost: $27.95 (Hardcover)/$18.39 (Hardcover at Amazon)/$15.37 (Kindle)/$7.19 (Paperback) Page Count: 304 Release Date: 04/01/2014 (Hardcover and Kindle)/10/7/1014 (Paperback) Get it Here: Amazon.com It’s hard to believe that this is the penultimate book in the Sundering series that will take the Forgotten Realms from Fourth…
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Book Review: Gears of War: Judgment – Kilo Squad: The Survivor’s Log
A collection of stories more enjoyable than the game it’s based upon.
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Unboxing of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster Collector’s Edition
Another new Square-Enix title, another new collector’s edition. Well, not “new” exactly, but new in the sense that this particular product was just released. ANYWAY, the fact that I ordered an item on the Square-Enix website and actually received it is cause for celebration, so please join me as I tear away the packaging on…
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EvilleCon 2014: Interview with Voice Actress Monica Rial
This year’s EvilleCon is happening March 28-30 at the Clarion Inn on Highway 41N in Evansville, Indiana. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in a position to be able to go this year, but I was able to nab a few interviews with some of this year’s visiting guests. One of them is Monica Rial, voice actress extraordinaire. Monica…
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Unboxing the Dark Souls II Collector’s Edition and Collector’s Edition Strategy Guide
If you’ve been kicking around here for any length of time, you probably have a good idea that I’m a pretty big advocate of From Software in general and Dark Souls in specific. The series has made quite a splash in the western market, so it makes sense that we’d see a bit of an…
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Book Review: Night of the Hunter: Companions Codex, Book I (Dungeons & Dragons)
R.A. Salvatore’s latest brings Drizzt and crew into the new Forgotten Realms
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Book Review: The Art of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
The Art of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Publisher: Titan Books Cost: $34.95 ($25.79 at Amazon.com) Page Count:192 Release Date: 03/04/2014 Get it Here: Amazon.com I was actually kind of surprised that Titan Books did an art book for the Lords of Shadow franchise, especially since it all of Mercurysteam’s Castlevania games have been so critically…
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Walkthrough: Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
(Note to anyone who might be arriving here looking for a walkthrough for Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: you can find it here.) Hello and welcome to Diehard GameFAN’s Dangan Ronpa walkthrough! While Josh took the lead on the review for the game, I’ve been having a substantial amount of fun with it, and thought…
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Book Review: The Art of Thief
I>The Art of Thief Publisher: Titan Books Cost: $34.95 ($18.96 on Amazon.vcom) Page Count: 192 Release Date: 02/25/2014 Get it Here:Amazon.com I’ve always been a big fan of the Thief series and so when Eidos and Square-Enix announced they would be releasing the first new game for the series in a decade, I had mixed…
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DHGF Interview: Codebrush Games
Codebrush Game is an independent developer located in Seoul, South Korea. They are currently working on their first title, ArcheBlade, which is presently in open beta, and we had the chance to speak with them on the game.. Robert Hubbs – DHGF – How did the team of developers come together to form Codebrush? You…
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Unboxing of Tales of Symphonia Chronicles Collector’s Edition
Wow, it is an awesome time to be a Tales fan. I mean, yes, things could be better (still waiting on those Vita ports), but overall there have been an incredible number of releases in the series that have been localized, and more are on the way. This time, we have an HD update to…
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Book Review: The Art of Titanfall
The Art of Titanfall Publisher: Titan Books Cost: $34.95 (MSRP)/$26.65 (Amazon.com) Page Count: 192 Pages Release Date: 02/25/14 Get it Here: Amazon.com Military-style first person shooters may not seem like the most obvious games to create art books for, when one thinks about it, but a game like Titanfall generally isn’t your typical entry in…
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Book Review: The Reaver: The Sundering Book IV (Dungeons & Dragons)
The Reaver: The Sundering Book IV (Dungeons & Dragons) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Cost: $27.95 (Physical)/$15.37 (Digital) Page Count: Release Date: 2/4/2014 (Physical)/2/11/2014 (Digital) Get it Here: Amazon.com The Reaver is the fourth book in The Sundering, a Dungeons & Dragons set of novels which showcases the changes between Fourth Edition and the upcoming…