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Sep 3, 2009

The evolution of Japanese game commercials

PS2 Feature | Devil May Cry

Japan has a well-earned reputation for daft, brilliant and disturbingly odd TV game commercials, but it took a long (sometimes painful) evolution along a course signposted by geeky TV celebs in bad jumpers during the 1980s and PlayStation-sophistication in the 1990s, for that rep to be won and maintained.Back at the end of the 1970s, Japanese gamecorps started trying to convince their public that games were not something to be afraid ... » Read More

Jun 15, 2009

Before and after: the games that changed during...

PS2 Feature | Devil May Cry

Splinter Cell ConvictionSam Fisher’s gone through some midlife crisis-sized changes over the past couple of years. One minute he’s a tortured emo agent on the run, with as little respect for the law as he does for kept facial hair. The next he’s a malicious murderer, who makes Jack Bauer look like Jack Osborne. Above: From badly groomed to just plain badThe Conviction of 2007 has heavy influences from ... » Read More

Apr 3, 2009

Why Japanese game ads are the best in the world

PS2 Feature | Devil May Cry

Our eyeballs have been sullied by hateful Western game ads for too long now. Our retinas simply can’t stand anymore of this…Want us to buy your titles giant corporations? Show us middle-aged businessman fighting for survival in the wilderness, wronged women attacking men with bouquets or a couple in gold body paint hugging on public transport. It sounds like madness, but it’s clearly a sound business strategy. ... » Read More

Apr 24, 2007

Crazy-ass Devil May Cry bosses

PS2 Feature | Devil May Cry

If a man defines himself by his enemies, then Devil May Crys Dante must be borderline schizophrenic. One minute hes fighting hells lava-spewing minions - the next hes shooting a giant canary on a pirate ship. Before lunch hes murdering hordes of marionettes - afterwards hes slicing up an orangutan in an abandoned train station. In a world of increasingly humanoid bosses, Devil May Cry takes the grand old tradition of packing some of the most misshapen, misguided and mental bosses possible into ... » Read More

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