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Though the first titles in the Ninja JaJaMaru series were released in the late 80s – and became among the best-selling Famicom releases in Japan – ININ Games and developers […]
Creator Gil Murillo has crafted the beginning of an incredibly intriguing and original tale with the opening issue of Heirs of Ashuradō. Obedient student Tetsu is due to graduate from […]
A two player strategy game from Paolo Mori, Blitzkrieg!, promises gamers a World War II campaign in 20 minutes. Though it initially looks a bit overwhelming, with lots of icons […]
The first game in the Cotton series – Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams – was released in Japanese arcades in 1991 and went on to appear on a wide variety of […]
Bullet hell shooter Shinorubi launches as an Early Access title on the 20th of January 2022. Thanks to IGM, I’ve been able to try Shinorubi out for myself and can […]
Out now on: Oculus Quest (and Early Access on Steam) There’s something to be said for the arcade simplicity of many VR titles, where a game can be built around […]
As the reboot trilogy came to an end with 1999’s Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, it seemed as if we’d seen the last of our rocket-powered turtle guardian. However, seven […]
Beginning with flashbacks to the events of the first film from a different perspective, we technically don’t get the same buildup to Gamera’s emergence that we did with the first […]
A meteor shower brings with it a clutch of giant, deadly bugs and something even bigger that nests in a Japanese building. With the military struggling to contain the threat […]
After the disastrous 1980 entry in the Gamera series – Gamera: Super Monster – which was little more than an hour and a half of clips, along with some truly […]
Shortly after the release of 1971 movie Gamera vs Zigra, production company Daiei collapsed, leaving the series in limbo. Though Daiei was revived in 1974, it took nine years for […]
We seem to be heading into the future with Gamera vs Zigra, which opens with an attack on a Japanese Moon Base by an unidentified alien spacecraft. Yet we’re soon […]
Though the sixth Gamera film is the first to be released in the 1970s, it was still an annual entry in the then-prolific series – so it’s not as if […]
The fourth film in the Gamera series was, in my opinion, the best yet – being so utterly bonkers and campy in tone that you couldn’t help but enjoy it. […]
The third film in the Gamera series opens with stock footage of an earthquake and volcano eruption – leading to everyone’s favourite fire-breathing, rocket-powered kaiju Gamera checking out the situation […]
Cheap kaiju quickie Gamera, the Giant Monster (which I have reviewed) was a reasonable hit for film studio Daiei in 1965, so they wasted no time in getting a sequel […]
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