While not technically a new game, the brand new Viking Conquest DLC adds a much needed refresh to the amazing Mount & Blade: Warband game. It improves the graphics, adds naval warfare and a full storyline. Furthermore, it features vikings! That's right, expect to encounter the other Alexander, Aashis, Simen and many other scandinavian BDers. Or well, their ancestors...

It's quite buggy right now, so be advised. It's improving rapidly, however.

For those unfamiliar with M&B:W, you essentially travel around a map doing diplomatics both inside of your faction and outside of it, starting with a rag tag band of peasants and possibly ending up with your own kingdom (or dead). It has a terrific online mode and battles are fought in glorious 3D, with you as both a warrior and commander!

It's pretty amazing.

Who should play this game?

Fans of medieval-ish RPGs, viking fans, RTS fans, people with frustrations who would like to pretend to drive a sword through some scrawny scandinavian guys. Or Routhy (you can find his ancestor in the pub in Nottinglaham or however you spell it)

So who shouldn't?
People obsessive about graphics or music, people who can't stand any bugs or imperfections, people without any patience or love for the medieval era, anyone with dyslexia. There's some seriously hard sentences in this game.

Que: Cool Videos. AKA: The TL;dr section.


A gameplay trailer!


*WARNING: BAD LANGUAGE*
Who better to showcase a game, than the swede from the "Unarmed Viking Badass" skyrim viral hit?

OK Cool, so how do I get it?

While torrenting is of course an option (ask Gaurav for the link of Warband - he has to give it daily to Allen anyway!), I do not recommend this.

Instead, buy it through TaleWorlds or Steam. Simply because they're a small indie developer - they need everything they can get. Not some big corporation trying to cheat you out of your every penny.

Mother 3, to put it simple, is a wonderful story about the impact a mother has on the people in a small village. As industrialisation slowly creeps up to the people of the largely empty nowhere islands and the world changes, you see the background and changes to multiple characters caused by the mother in question and the everchanging world. It's beautiful, utterly sad and hilarious.

Sounds odd? That's because it is. Mother 3 is an extremely unique game and an all around improved sequel to "EarthBound" (also known as Mother 2). From beautiful, inspiring, flowing music to cute graphics and some of the best jokes and moments ive seen in any game, this game got it all. It will make anyone that isn't heartless laugh, cry and rejoice.

Who should play this game?

(J) RPG fans, gaming music fans, story enthusiasts, the kind of players that feel a great game should also be a great book. This is also a terrific (J) RPG to start with, being surprisingly easy to get into compared to other games.

So who shouldn't?
If you play games for fighting, violence, competition or graphics, this is not your game. It's ugly. Real ugly. And peaceful. Real peaceful. Don't bother.

Que: Cool Videos. AKA: The TL;dr section.


The intro, quite nicely done and showcases just how unique it is.


An example of Mother 3's amazing music.

OK Cool, so how do I get it?

Well, this is on the difficult side... you see, Mother 3 was never released in the West.

That said - thanks to the dedication of fans, this can be done!

First, you'll need a rom. I am not linking one, as Simen would ban me. But lets just say a bit of googling will get you certain files named Mother 3 (J).gba at about 10MB...

Second of all, you'll need an emulator to run this rom. I would recommend VisualBoyAdvance (similar emulators exist for all platforms - even for Android!). The advantage of VBA is that its fully legal - it doesn't require a bios or any other proprietary files. It's simple and it works. I will not link it as you can possibly find roms on the site - so Google is your friend.

Finally, you need to make Mother 3 english! Simply use the patcher. Yup, that simple!

Have fun!