5 Dec 2019
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Review: Interrogation – You Will Be Deceived

Again, I found a game sat across the table from me. It had answers, and I’d crack this nut one way or another. Sure, I’d start playing the way it wanted to be played, but if it refused to cooperate, well…I had ways of breaking it.
5 Dec 2019
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New FFXIV Screenshots Arrive Ahead of Patch 5.15

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Patch 5.15 will be on our doorstep soon, with the delivery date expected to be announced next week on December 13th with Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LVI. In addition to adding the new PvP mode: Onsal Hakair (Danshig Naadam), the patch will also come with updates to Blue Mage
5 Dec 2019
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Review: Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts

When creating a stealth game, a simple question needs to be answered: if the player were to step back and become a silent observer, would the actions they’ve been sent to disrupt (or antagonize) continue unimpeded? At their core, games built upon the foundation of stealth – that is, one where the player finds themselves
4 Dec 2019
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Jedi: Fallen Order — A New Hope for Star Wars Games?

For many of us, the Jedi Order of videogames fell some ten or fifteen years ago when Kyle Katarn and Revan disappeared into the uncharted reaches along with the Republic Commando squad and any feasible hope for a Pandemic Battlefront II sequel. Let’s be real, the Star Wars IP was a highly saturated affair through
3 Dec 2019
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Review: Simulacra

An increasing interest in alternate reality games, or ARGs, has led to a surge in titles focused on using items such as our own phones to uncover secrets. A Normal Lost Phone is a great example of storytelling through the use of a mobile phone to uncover more information about the fictional phone’s missing owner.
3 Dec 2019
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Review: EarthNight

I have no idea what about this game prompted this title. While a lot of the game takes place in space, where it is dark like night, there’s not much about actual night. It feels like a title that in no small part exists because the most obvious title of Fall To Earth While Killing
30 Nov 2019
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Preview: The Riftbreaker

The Riftbreaker is a big, sprawling, ambitious, kind of hopeless mess of a game. I sort of love it. Games can have ambition on a lot of levels, but at this point, the majority of games that want to be ambitious kind of need to sink into the territory of narrative ambition. This isn’t a
30 Nov 2019
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Review: Might & Magic Heroes: Era of Chaos

Here at Gamer Escape, doing the same-old, same-old just isn’t good enough. So we’re switching things up a bit here with a mobile game review! Now I’m personally not the biggest mobile game player out there. That said, I do have a bit of a soft spot for what are commonly known as “gacha games.”
28 Nov 2019
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Review: Shenmue III

The summer of 2003 was a particular highlight of my childhood. G4 had just started broadcasting, I discovered Honey BBQ Fritos, and I finally got my hands on a game I had been eye-balling for awhile: Shenmue II. I had never played the original Shenmue. I didn’t have a Dreamcast, but if we’re being honest
24 Nov 2019
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Aetheryte Radio 150: Pretzel Metaphors

Today, Aetheryte Radio discusses how to play nice and get along with strangers— in a word: etiquette! — Watch live on Saturdays at noon PST.
19 Nov 2019
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Aetheryte Radio 149: Patch 5.1 Review (Spoilercast)

Spoilers for patch 5.1 MSQ ahead! Ethys joins the full crew today for a run down of the 5.1 MSQ story line, as well as our review of the content released with both Patch 5.1 and 5.11. Check out Ethys’ Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube. — Watch live on Saturdays at noon PST. https://media.blubrry.com/ffxiv/gamerescape-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/ffxiv/ar/ar149.mp3Podcast: Play in
18 Nov 2019
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Review: Need For Speed Heat

We are long past the golden age of the arcade racer. Once dominating gaming in the late 90s and early 00s, it’s been some time since I have had a Need For Speed in my library. With the occasional dip into sim racers with Forza 4, I hadn’t even thought about playing a racer again.
18 Nov 2019
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Review: The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature

I always look forward to reviewing art games. Good or bad, the one thing I can guarantee is that it will be interesting, and an invitation to play with interpreting what’s being said by the narrative. A pleasant change of pace from simply taking what I’m given at face value.
18 Nov 2019
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Review: Tokyo Dark: Remembrance

Back in 2014, Square Enix entered into an interesting experiment. One that would help indie developers pitch ideas, gain public interest, and possibly receive assistance in the creation and publication of their work. That experiment is known as the Square Enix Collective.
14 Nov 2019
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FFXIV Shadowbringers Guide: The Grand Cosmos

The Grand Cosmos is a Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Main Scenario Quest dungeon. It’s available at level 80 after finishing the quest A Grand Adventure. It can be completed via the duty finder and was part of the Patch 5.2 Expert Duty Roulette.
14 Nov 2019
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Preview: Alder’s Blood

It’s really hard to be sure just how much Bloodborne and Darkest Dungeon influenced the collective zeitgeist of gaming. The two games weren’t quite contemporaries, but they both seem to have wound up occupying a similar space and either created or tapped into an undercurrent, a longing that no one had yet articulated for pseudo-Victorian
14 Nov 2019
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Final Fantasy Titles Coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2020- FFXIV Also Coming to Xbox

Today, Microsoft held XO2019 in London. During the presentation, Shinji Hashimoto, the Brand Manager for Final Fantasy took to the stage to announce that the following games would be coming to Xbox Game Pass (on both console and PC) starting next year in 2020. Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy VIII Remastered Final Fantasy IX Final
14 Nov 2019
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FFXIV’s Firmament Closed to World Visitors

Ever since its implementation with Patch 5.11 earlier this week, Final Fantasy XIV’s Ishgard Restoration has proven to be a very popular piece of content. In fact, it might be a bit too popular, with players moving from world to world with the world visit system in order to participate. Over the last couple of
11 Nov 2019
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Fairy Tail Interview with Keisuke Kikuchi

Last week, Koei Tecmo brought their upcoming video game adaption of manga and anime series Fairy Tail to the west in a playable form for the first time. We had the opportunity to try out a short demo of the game, which you can check out here. Also present at the demo event was the
10 Nov 2019
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Hands-on with Gust’s Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail is a massively popular shounen manga and anime series that I’ve never actually had any experience with. Not that I’ve purposefully avoided it, but more due to the fact that getting into it would be a massive time investment. The original manga ran for over a decade, with over 500 chapters making up