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Proteus Review

September 1, 2014 Sebastian Young PS3, PSVita, Reviews, SY

For our new segment on reviewing the monthly PS Plus Instant Game Collection offerings, I fired up the Vita, downloaded Proteus and settled down to see what it’s all about.

So, what can I say about Proteus? Well, first would be that Proteus is not a game. I mean not in the sense that Mario Kart, Skyrim or Papers Please are games. It’s not even a game in the way that Heavy Rain or Beyond: Two Souls are games. In the latter two, there was at least some point to the on-screen goings-on, regardless of how you felt about not actually controlling the action.
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Table Top Racing Review

August 18, 2014 Sebastian Young PSVita, Reviews, SY

Sony has been lacking a truly compelling Mario Kart clone for… well, for ever. We’ve had a whole spectrum of games which have attempted to ape Nintendo’s pole position racer, from the truly awful ModNation Racers: Road Trip, to the mediocre LittleBigPlanet Karting and at the other end of the scale, the surprisingly solid Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed, which was a great early addition to the Vita’s line-up.

One Man’s Remake Is Another Man’s Masterpiece

August 11, 2014 Sebastian Young Editor's Picks, Editorials, SY

It’s that hot, sultry time of year, when new games are few and far between, where we wait out the days by counting down to the life giving games flood of autumn. Recently however, there has been a slew of announcements for PS4 and Xbox1. Yes, I’m talking about the apparently controversial ‘remakes’ and ‘remasters’.
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A Pixel-Spent Youth: Part III

August 4, 2014 Sebastian Young Editorials, My Retro Years, SY

In part II of this meander down memory lane, I talked about my friend Oliver and how he introduced me to the Atari ST. At some point in the late 80’s I must have been talking about Atari quite excessively, because eventually my aunt revealed that she too had an ST and that I could go round and play it with her. Holy crap, I though, my AUNT has an Atari ST?? Read more …

Girl Power!

July 28, 2014 Sebastian Young Editorials, SY

This week I wanted to write about the recent Destiny Beta, but since I never got to play more than about 3 minutes of it before it booted me out, I had to think of something else at the last minute. So, while I sat wondering what Destiny might be like when it releases next month, I got to thinking about the kind of characters I’d like to find myself play as and alongside this generation. Read more …

MouseCraft Review

July 21, 2014 Sebastian Young PC, PS3, PS4, PSVita, Reviews

I recently returned to Japan from a trip back to Blighty and immediately had to begin studying for a Japanese language proficiency exam. That is to say that my spare time of late has been somewhat limited. So when the review copy of MouseCraft arrived I was excited and dismayed at the same time.

I’ve wanted to get my filthy paws on this game for a while and when I finally did, I had almost no time to play it. For several days I didn’t even load it up. But when I did I realised that this is precisely the kind of game that I bought a Vita for in the first place. Read more …