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Michael talks about some of the issues gaming journalism faces.

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Hardcore Gamer: During the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn lore panel, Michael Christopher Koji-Fox a longtime translator for Square Enix revealed that he had entirely translated Code Age Commanders before he was informed that the game would not be released to territories outside of Japan.

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The September NPD was a big month for the console wars. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were facing off against some really, really stiff expectations for the previous month... why? Well, because Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter made some over-the-top claims, and now he's reaping what he sowed with the actual stats being made public.

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The Koalition's Tony Polanco writes: "Polygons negative review of Bayonetta 2 because of its overt sexuality leads into another lengthy discussion about game reviews and how objective or non objective they should be. Can a review ever be 100% objective? Should people just follow reviewers whose opinions match theirs? Should a reviewer keep their own personal views out of a review or should they dock points off a game if something in it deeply disturbed them? These are all things we bring up. After we briefly talk about Septembers NPD numbers and how Michael Pachter was wrong about the Xbox One outselling the PlayStation 4, we have another lengthy discussion, this time on Nintendo. Chris Sealy and Brett Murdock believe that the company is making ridiculous choices with their franchises, specifically The Legend of Zelda and the Master Cycle in Mario Kart 8. This leads into the larger topic of how much touch Nintendo has lost with the gaming community and whether or not its to...

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Dorkly: Alien: Isolation is awesome, which is good because the Alien franchise needed something to save it after Prometheus bombed and I learned that Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba are human and make mistakes, just like the rest of us. The game is a success because it captures everything we loved about the original Alien film: the retro-futuristic atmosphere, the unrelenting tension and the fucking scary alien. Here are five interesting details that you might have missed:

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Imagine "Uncharted in the Call of Duty fiction", says Michael Condrey.
You might recall that Advanced Warfare developer Sledgehammer worked on a third-person Call of Duty game set in Vietnam across 2009 to 2010. The game was ultimately shelved amid concerns about such a project's reception in countries outside the United States, and Sledgehammer was shuttled over to help a troubled Infinity Ward complete work on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games. Helix By Smestorp - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.99 / $2.99) There are plenty of shooters on the App Store, but I bet you'd have trouble naming a game that’s all about flying circles around scratchy-edged retro monsters. Unless you've played Helix, that is. Built by Michael Brough...