So Summer is coming to a close. The trees are changing. The weather is getting colder. Students everywhere are gnashing their teeth and cursing the onward progress of time as they are marched into the cold embrace of education. For me, however, it means one thing: the great gaming gluttony will soon begin! We’re almost to the holiday season and will shortly have a wide selection of games to look forward to. Truly it is a magical time. Unless you are my wallet. Then it is significantly less awesome. Sure a load of games have been delayed to next year (I’m looking at you, Batman), but there are still plenty to keep you going as the weather gets colder and going outside sounds like more and more of an insurmountable task.

So with the close of the year just around the corner, I’m checking out some of the big releases that are coming my way. These are some pretty much guaranteed purchases for me… Read more …

I have always really enjoyed the Civilization series, dating back to my first encounter with it in Civ 3 and straight through to today. It is the series that has eaten up the most hours of my life as I take my humble nation and gather my resources slowly but surely until I can poke Ghandi with a stick to the point where he declares war on me and I am able to wipe him and his people off the face of the Earth.

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This year is a big one for game developer Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series. The long awaited fifth entry will see its Japanese release later this year with a North American release following sometime in 2015. Along with this highly anticipated sequel, the forth entry will get its second fighting spin-off as well as a… rhythm-dancing game? Sure. Whatever. The point is that it is a game series that is very much coming into its own and is fast becoming one of the most popular in the JRPG genre. Read more …