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Tabletop Review: The Strange: Player’s Guide (Cypher System)
The Strange: Player’s Guide (Cypher System) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $10 Page Count: 98 Release Date: 08/06/2014 (Preorder PDF and Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com (eventually) Back in late 2012, Monte Cook Games ran a Kickstarter for a game you might have heard of called Numenera. It was awesome, received praise…
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Ten Things You Might Not Know About the Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Player’s Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons/D&D Next)
Although the Player’s Handbook doesn’t come out until August 19th for most people, we here at Diehard GameFAN have out hands on one, and we thought it would be fun to show you a preview of what to expect. Now, we know that other sites, and even Wizards of the Coast, have previewed various classes…
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Preview: Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms (PC)
The sequel to Kult: Heretic Kingdoms has hit Steam’s Early Access.
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Diehard GameCAST: Episode 54 – Destiny Beta, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, The Darkness II, and more!
We dissect EA’s new subscription service, the concept of love in The Last of Us, and the merits of unobtainable achievements.
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Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS – Week in Review 8/1/14 (Takamaru, Paper Mario, Pokemon)
Two new stages for 3DS, a new Assist Tropyh, a space version of the Beetle item and an explosive new mode? Quite the productive week for Mr. Sakurai’s release schedule.
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Review: Northmark: Hour of the Wolf (PC)
A year later, and this game has only gotten less impressive.
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10 Thoughts on… The Destiny Beta (Sony Playstation 4, Microsoft Xbox One)
When Bungie decided they were more or less tired of making Halo and opted to hand off the franchise to Microsoft so they could go do something else, it should probably come as no surprise that their next venture would be a futuristic FPS (though I was holding out for a Pathways into Darkness reboot…
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Review: Detective Case and Clown Bot in: Murder in the Hotel Lisbon (PC)
This is a really odd fish.
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Review: The Walking Dead Season Two Episode Four: Amid The Ruins (PC)
Less on rails than episode three, but still heavy handed.
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Review: Memories of a Vagabond (PC)
Memories of a Vagabound Developer: DarkElite Publisher: DarkElite Genre: RPG Release Date: 07/07/2014 It’s no secret I’m a Chrono Trigger fan – I even nominated it for the Hall of Fame way back when. So when Alex said a game came in that was a homage to Chrono Trigger (and Final Fantasy), my interest was…
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Tabletop Review: Age of Cthulhu 8: Starfall Over the Plateau of Leng (Call of Cthulhu)
Age of Cthulhu 8: Starfall Over the Plateau of Leng (Call of Cthulhu) Publisher: Goodman Games Cost: $7 (PDF)/$24.99 Physical) Page Count: 66 Release Date: 07/18/2014 (PDF to Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone Else) Get it Here: Goodman Games Age of Cthulhu 8 was another successful Kickstarter project by Goodman Games. In this case the goal was…
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Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS – Week in Review 7/25/14 (Robin, Starfox, Tomodachi)
Admittedly slow week in Smash news. We’re coming down to the wire – It’s just over two months until the 3DS launch and we can expect to know almost anything by then!
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Review: OlliOlli (PC)
OlliOlli Genre: Skateboard/Score Attack Developer: Roll7 Publisher: Steam Release Date: 7/22/2014 I’m going to make a terrible analogy to start off this review because why not. There was a time when junk food was created, processed and sold to meet the demand of people who wanted a sugary snack. Now it’s a multi-billion dollar empire…
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Review: Strike Force Foxx (Nintendo 3DS)
It’s silly and monotonous, but can still be fun in short bursts.
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Tabletop Review: Dungeon Crawl Classics #83: The Chained Coffin
Dungeon Crawl Classics #83: The Chained Coffin Publisher: Goodman Games Cost: $7 (PDF)/$10 (physical)/$30 (Kickstarter Boxed Collector’s Edition) Release Date: 07/23/2014 (PDF to Kickstarter Backers)/TBD (Everyone else) Get it Here: Goodman Games After seeing several third party publishers like Brave Halfling run successful crowdfunding campaigns for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG system, Goodman Games finally…
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Preview: Frozen State (PC)
I’m generally all about horror games; while the majority of games that can be considered as thematically “horror” oriented tend to fall into the survival horror or adventure genre, not all of them occupy these two genres, and those that don’t tend to pique my interest the most. Sure, there will always be some turkeys…
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Anime Review: Toradora! Premium Edition (Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack)
Toradora! Premium Edition Publisher; Nippon Ichi Runtime: 617 minutes Cost: $129.99 Release Date: 07/01/2014 Get it Here: NISAmerica Store It’s hard to believe that it was a little over four years ago that I reviewed one of Nippon Ichi’s first two anime releases – Toradora!. If you read through my reviews of Volume One and…
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Review: Amazing Princess Sarah (Xbox 360)
Amazing Princess Sarah Publisher: Haruneko Developer: Haruneko Genre: Platformer Release Date: 7/9/2014 When you look at the cover image for Amazing Princess Sarah, you might be led to think this is just another stupid indie game with fan service to make up for the poor content quality. Normally, I might share your skepticism; after all, it is a picture of…
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Review: Magic 2015 – Duels of the Planeswalkers (PC)
Gain deck construction and bugs, lose 2 headed giant and a good campaign
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Review: The Walking Dead: Season 2 Episode 4 – Amid the Ruins (Sony PlayStation Vita)
The Walking Dead keeps pulling the same old tricks. It’s officially old at this point.
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