Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Review: Amida’s Path (Nintendo 3DS)
An interesting concept surrounded by terrible packaging.
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Review: Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed (Sony Playstation 3)
Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed Genre: Sandbox Action/Adventure Developer: Acquire Publisher: XSEED Games Release Date: 08/12/2014 God bless Acquire and XSEED. Now, love for XSEED shouldn’t be a surprise, as they go out of their way to bring out all kinds of games to the US most people wouldn’t touch, like Corpse Party, Corpse Party:…
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Tabletop Review: Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour’s Guide to the Numenera
Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour’s Guide to the Numenera Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $14.99 (PDF) Page Count: 162 Release Date: 08/12/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Although Monte Cook Games has been very busy with the release of their newest game, The Strange, they haven’t neglected their original release, the multi award-winning Numenera. Their latest release,…
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P.T.: What it is, what it means and what it could be.
For those who have been living under a rock for the past couple days, last week, during Gamescom, Sony announced a new game they were simply calling P.T. or, literally, “Public Test” or “Playable Teaser” (depending on who you ask). Several videos were shown off regarding the test demo, and an actual playable demo was…
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Review: Mysterious Stars: A Fairy Tale (Nintendo 3DS)
The stars didn’t align for this game either.
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Review: Mysterious Stars: The Samurai (Nintendo 3DS)
The stars didn’t align for this game.
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10 Thoughts on… Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (Sony Playstation Vita)
This probably won’t come as any sort of a surprise considering I wrote a huge strategy guide for the first game, but I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of Dangan Ronpa 2 ever since NIS announced it was coming stateside. That NIS announced their intention to release the game in the US almost immediately after…
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Don’t Miss This: GenCon 2014 Poker Game
Flying Buffalo created a neat poker deck in 2008 called the “Origins Poker Deck,” which features four famous game designers as the king cards and ads from various game companies, conventions, and stores as the rest of the deck. The original deck was sold at the 2008 Origins Game Convention; the kings that year were Gary…
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Anime Review: Cardcaptor Sakura Blu-Ray Premium Edition
Cardcaptor Sakura Complete Series: Premium Blu-Ray Edition Publisher: Nippon Ichi Cost: $199 (133.97 or Standard Edition) Runtime: 1,750 minutes Release Date: 08/05/2014 Get it Here: Nippon Ichi’s Website. Right after I had graduated college in 2000, Kids’ WB began showing an anime called Cardcaptors The voice cast was pretty decent, but you could tell that…
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Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS – Week in Review 8/8/14 (Daybreak, Trophies, Gameboy)
Another new assist trophy, another new stage for the portable version and a new (likely very powerful) item. Sakurai is vague but productive. We’re just about inside of a month until the Japanese release of SSB for 3DS so we can expect some interesting updates as we draw closer.
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Review: Abyss Odyssey (PC)
Slowly enter the abyss that was made for you.
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10 Thoughts On… Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (Sony PlayStation Vita)
Nep Nep makes her return on the Vita. But this time, not as a pop idol.
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Review: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (PC)
“Why is my present a BOY?!”
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Tabletop Review: Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition Player’s Handbook (D&D 5e/D&D Next)
Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition Player’s Handbook Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Cost: $49.95 ($29.97 at Amazon.com) Page Count: 320 Release Date: 08/19/2014 Get it Here: Amazon.com Well here we are. After months of reviewing beta 5e products like Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle and the Sundering adventures which bridged the gap between fourth and fifth…
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Review: Risen 3 – Titan Lords (PC)
Risen 3: Titan Lords Developer: Piranha Bytes Publisher: Deep Silver Genre: Action Adventure RPG Release: 08/12/2014 Frustration, enjoyment, confusion and disappointment. These are the range of emotions I went through as I marched my way through Risen 3: Titan Lords. I never had the opportunity to play the first two games, but they have the…
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Tabletop Review: Spooks: Welcome to the Great Beyond
Spooks: Welcome to the Great Beyond Publisher: Nightingale Publishing Cost: $19.99 Page Count: 362 Release Date: Nightingale Press Get it Here:DriveThruRPG.com Like many new RPGs these days, Spooks: Welcome to the Great Beyond is a product of crowdfunding. I remember watching the campaign on Kickstarter but decided not to back it. I back so many…
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Tabletop Review: Hoard of the Dragon Queen (Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/D&D Next)
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition/D&D Next) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast/Kobold Press Cost: $29.99 ($23.94 at Amazon.com Page Count: 95 Release Date: 08/19/2014 Get it Here: Amazon.com Hoard of the Dragon Queen is the first post Sundering adventure collection for Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition. Like previous 5e (or D&D…
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Interview with James Edward Raggi IV and Rafael Chandler about No Salvation For Witches (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)
Although it’s not one of the more mainstream gaming brands like Shadowrun, World of Darkness or Pathfinder, Lamentations of the Flame Princess has an ever growing and pretty damn devout following. Amongst the DHGF staffers, it’s a personal favorite of Chuck Platt and Matt Faul. Personally speaking, I would say in terms of release quality…
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