The last few years have been a curious time for Sony’s PlayStation brand. Not only has the company’s apparent effort to “Americanise” itself allowed the Nintendo Switch to gladly and gleefully take up the ecchi baton from where the Vita left it, but it’s also seen a bunch of fantastic, stylish and highly enjoyable first-party […]Read More
There aren’t many things I’m happier to talk about than VTubers, especially Hololive, so here we are again in my happy place, but this time talking about some criminally underrated members, to go alongside our recent article on big-name VTubers from Hololive and beyond. Considering Hololive is my specialty — as the group is what […]Read More
Those who have been following Japanese popular culture in recent years will doubtless already be familiar with Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro. Those of you who aren’t… well, it’s quite the distinctive experience. And there’s an anime adaptation coming in April, with a brand new trailer now available. First published on the Web in […]Read More
Ecchi and erotic games are about more than just sexuality
Chances are, at least some of you reading this — if not most of you — have run into the more judgemental side of the Internet at one point or another. The side of the Internet that believes that videogames featuring provocative or even outright explicit sexual content are little more than pornography, with no […]Read More
Last week, our new editor here at Rice Digital asked me if I could write about VTubers. I told him the same thing I will tell all of you: I am 35 years old. (I’m 39, stop making excuses – Ed.) I just figured out what TikTok is. I have no idea who these VTubers […]Read More
Over the weekend, our friends at The Escapist published a piece that argued we’d seen “enough medieval fantasy RPGs already”. And you may well believe that to be true to a certain extent — but it’s worth pointing out that medieval fantasy RPGs are by no means the only kind of RPG out there. So […]Read More
In the past I covered 5 chilled games to relax to. Evidently that wasn’t quite enough, as 2021 has already been a turbulent time for many people. So here I am once more, this time recommending you a whopping 10 more wholesome titles to keep your mind occupied, refill your happy meter and warm up […]Read More
Everybody loves a good bargain, particularly if said bargain can keep you busy for many, many hours after that initial outlay. So here’s a freshly picked selection of role-playing games from the depths of Steam that you can grab right now for less than a tenner — even when they’re not on sale! Final Fantasy […]Read More
As we sink deeper and deeper into the digital age, more and more discussions are starting to arise on the subject of video game preservation — particularly how we might preserve those games that are only available as digital downloads on proprietary platforms. A few games come up quite often in these discussions, with one […]Read More
I’ll level with you, dear reader; idle and clicker games kind of baffle me a bit. After all, the genre was popularised by 2010’s Cow Clicker, a game intended as satirical commentary on the vapid nature of many mobile and social games at the time, and not as something that people should take too seriously. […]Read More