GameAxis Originals // Page 43

We’re starting a brand new feature for GameAxis Online called GAX Point, a video series bringing you the latest games, how tos, and fun facts from the GAX team. GAX Point will be a weekly video published every Friday and in this first episode, Mr. Toffee and Jimmy Wartooth tells us how to play Gears [...]

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Here’s another video interview @ GAX. This time, we met up with the lead storyboard artist for Animax Asia’s upcoming original anime LaMB. Yasufumi Soejima was here for the AFA08 weekend, so we dropped by to have a quick chat on his work on the project. Among others, Soejima previously worked on various 3D CG [...]

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Mr Toffee gets to do what millions of fanboys around the world can only dream of: ask Lara Croft “if those guns are real”. This is the first time we’re attempting to use video for interview so obviously the geek in us, even the great Mr. Toffee is a little camera shy, but don’t forget [...]

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October 29, 1988. It was a precursor year that paved gaming history. It was the birth of the 16-bit juggernaut from a not-so-well-known Japanese company known as Sega. For those born after the year 2000, I refer to the titular Sega Megadrive. Or Genesis for you American expats out there.
In Japan, the Megadrive did not [...]

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UPDATE: Added in OST links.

Next week marks the sixth iteration of the classic fast-paced 2-D shooter starring a bad-ass looking ship that paved its legacy on the Sega Megadrive, the Thunder Force series. The first game was part II, which was part free-roaming 2-D shooting and part horizontal shooting. But wait: where was part [...]

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Thanks to a whole bunch of GCA-related news, nonsense, and game-testing, I didnâ€™t get a chance to write up my current experiences on the past exploits of one DRN-001, Mega Man, and his past exploits on the NES. Here’s the first part just in case you missed it. So without further delay, letâ€™s hit on: [...]

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10 Hours In

The folding chairs in the Kallang resort happen to be 10-foot praying mantises in disguise. Who knew?
So I manage to sink in some time with Namco Bandai’s latest RPG Tales game, called Tales Of Vesperia, after a bit of R&R in the motherland. Here’s what I’ve learned and [...]

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Hi babe, it’s been a while….
(This is an updated version of my previous article in Dark Diamond. Visit them, for they bask full of game and anime culture)
Today marks the birthday of one of the most underrated systems to grace the human race. No, not NeoGeo [...]

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Mr Toffee & Nightmare: BFF
Whoever did not see this coming should be given a heavy dose of FAIL-juice. Moving on, the GameAxis office is filled with sounds of sword-clashing, guard impacts, and images of women tarted up so badly by Namco Bandai, you could have sworn you saw Ivy and Taki [...]

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There will always be that certain videogame title that will make you tread down the deep water of the videogaming industry and culture. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the first game you play (like the Atari or ZX Spectrum); it has to be that one game in your early childhood that makes you a [...]

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