Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Game Collection Roundtable 02/06/2015: Criminal Girls: Invite Only, Star Wars Humble Bundle
What did the Diehard Gamefan team add to their collections this week?
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Review: Criminal Girls: Invite Only (Sony Playstation Vita)
Criminal Girls: Invite Only Genre: RPG/Dating Sim Developer: Imageepoch Publisher: Nippon Ichi Release Date: 2/3/15 It’s hard to know what to really make of Criminal Girls: Invite Only. On a base level, it’s easy to dismiss it as a cheesecake game featuring vaguely offensive concepts, as a number of reviewers have already done on one…
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Miniature Review: Stephen Amell/Arrow (Batman Miniature Game)
Arrow (Stephen Amell Version) Cost: 14.88€ ($17 USD) Release Date: February 2015 Get it Here: Knight Models In my younger days. I used to enjoy Heroclix, but I eventually grew out of that game. Even though I still play Robotech RPG Tactics, Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K and paint Reaper Miniatures, I was still missing a…
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Review: Game of Thrones: Episode Two – The Lost Lords (Sony PlayStation 3)
Episode two has the same strengths and weaknesses as episode one.
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Review: Life is Strange Episode One: Chrysalis (Sony PlayStation 4)
A strong start to a hopefully great season.
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Review: Unmechanical Extended (Sony PlayStation 4)
A fun puzzler with a whole lot of charm.
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Review: Dying Light (PC)
Dying Light Genre: Survival FPS Developer: Techland Publisher: WB Games Release Date: 01/27/15 I distinctly remember the first time I turned off Dying Light in disgust. It was at the end of a particularly long sequence of tropes; the character had just finished dealing with a particularly traumatic sequence, only to be thrown head-first into…
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Review: Chariot (PC)
Long live the king… ‘s wagon.
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Diehard GameCAST: Episode 62 – Resident Evil, Brandish: The Dark Revenant, Yakuza 5, and more!
A discussion about narrative vs gameplay mechanics ensues, along with coverage of the latest Nintendo Direct.
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The Secrets of Cats: Animals & Threats Kickstarter is Now Live! (FATE Core System)
5:45am on a Sunday is not the best time for a Kickstarter to launch. Generally you want one of these to hit on a Weekday morning. However, The Secrets of Cats: Animals & Threats is no normal Kickstarter. It’s the sequel to the original The Secrets of Cats for the Fate Core system which won…
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Game Collection Roundtable 01/30/2015: Grim Fandango Remastered, Terranigma (SNES), Metroid Prime Trilogy (Wii U)
What did the Diehard Gamefan team add to their collections this week?
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10 Thoughts On…WWE Immortals (iOS)
WWE meets Mortal Kombat is this free to play brawler.
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Review: Thanquol (Warhammer: The End Times)
Thanquol (Warhammer: The End Times) Publisher: Games Workshop Page Count: Special (See Below) Cost: $74.25 (Hardcover)/$39.99 (ebook) Release Date: 01/17/2015 Get it Here: GamesWorkshop.com So this is interesting. Unlike the previous three End Times releases, Thanquol did not sell out right away and you can still get the hardcover two weeks after its release date.…
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Review: Atelier Ayesha Plus: The Alchemist of Dusk (Sony PlayStation Vita)
Ayesha is the latest to join the Plus line of Atelier Vita releases.
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Review: Blackguards 2 (PC)
A bad compromise between streamlined character management and large battles.
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Tabletop Review: The Godsfall
The Godsfall Publisher: Godfall RPG Page Count: 210 Cost: $19 Release Date: 01/2015 (for Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: GodsfallRPG.com It’s been a long, weird road for The Godsfall. It started out in Feburary of 2014 with a Kickstarter and a pledge to be part of Free RPG Day 2014. The Kickstarter failed.…
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Diehard GameFAN Presents: The Snack Box Review – Japan Crate’s Premium Crate
As Podcast listeners and those who’ve attended the Mark B Writing Livestream may be aware, I’ve recently begun dabbling in the world of exotic food subscription services, due entirely to the fact that I love weird crap, and Japan makes plenty of it. As random item subscription services are becoming more popular these days (with…
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Book Review: The Rise of the Horned Rat (Warhammer: The End Times)
The Rise of the Horned Rat (Warhammer: The End Times) Page Count: 389 Cost: $15.99 Release Date: 1/17/2015 Get it Here: The Black Library The Rise of the Horned Rat is a companion novel to the latest two book set for Warhammer: The End Times – Thanquol. Similar to The Return of Nagash and The…
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Game Collection Roundtable 01/23/2015: Resident Evil (Xbox One), Shantae and The Pirate’s Curse (3DS), Motorcycle Club (PS4)
What did the Diehard Gamefan team add to their collections this week?
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Review: Brandish: The Dark Revenant (Sony PlayStation Portable)
The PSP Brandishes a new game.
Got any book recommendations?