Sinan Kubba
- sinan@joystiq.com
Sinan serves as Joystiq’s UK editor, based as he is in London, England. He’s written for numerous online and print publications over the last five years, as well as hosting the Big Red Potion podcast. In his former lives he’s been a medical student, personal assistant, tennis coach, and DJ. He once played a stylish Columbian toyboy in a play, something that’s really hard to imagine.
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Analogue: A Hate Story's sequel Hate Plus due this month
Non-linear visual novel Analogue: A Hate Story explores a distant future's collision with a dehumanizing past, when society on board a 25th century spaceship bizarrely transitioned to the laws, culture, and mindsets of Korea's Joseon dynasty. It's a game that delves with class and care into ...
BioShock Infinite loops onto Mac this month
The sky city of Columbia opens its doors to Mac owners on August 29, when a BioShock Infinite port will inject itself into Steam, the App Store, and other online portals, priced at $60. In Aspyr Games' announcement, the Mac publisher revealed pre-orders placed through its GameAgent store will ...
Dragon's Crown ships 300K across first week in Japan
Dragon's Crown scaled to heights of 300,000 shipments in its first week at retail, a welcome boost for publisher Atlus amid the financial struggles of its parent company. Those figures are restricted to Japanese shipments (including download purchases), and could rise dramatically after Tuesday, ...
Ace Combat Infinity is free-to-play
Namco Bandai Europe confirmed Ace Combat Infinity is the first free-to-play entry in the long-running flight sim series. The PS3 game was announced last month with little detail, and today Namco filled in a few of the gaps, revealing Infinity features both a single-player story campaign and an ...
Capcom announces Breath of Fire 6 amid slew of online games
Capcom announced a whole load of online games for "mainly Japanese and Asian markets" this week, but one in particular stood out: Breath of Fire 6 for PC, iOS, and Android. For a decade Capcom brought the JRPG series worldwide to consoles, including the SNES, PS1, and PS2, but has since ...
Modified Saints Row 4 granted MA15+ rating in Australia
Saints Row 4 was finally deemed acceptable to be sold in Australia today, having previously been denied classification twice by the territory's ratings board. The listing isn't currently on the Australian Classification Board's site, but publisher Deep Silver provided us with a statement confirming ...
Friendly Steam bundle has Runner 2, Portal 2, Psychonauts, more
In an inspired move, today Gaijin Games announced a Steam bundle based on the Runner 2 Good Friends DLC. The limited time collection includes Runner 2 and the DLC, along with five games whose characters starred in it, namely Portal 2, Psychonauts, Super Meat Boy, Machinarium, and Cave Story+. The ...
Hot Shots Golf 5 online service looks set to retire to clubhouse
Cutesy-but-crazy golf sim Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds may see its online play become out of bounds by the end of October. After five years of super-deformed multiplayer fun, Sony Computer Entertainment announced the online service for the game's European variant, Everybody's Golf: World Tour, ...
Temple Run 2 adds Usain Bolt, because it can and why not
Dev Imangi Studios announced it's signed up Jamaican sprint star Usain bolt to be a playable character in Temple Run 2, probably the biggest proof yet beyond hard figures that Temple Run is a completely massive thing. The world's fastest man and Olympic gold factory is available now as an in-app ...
Monster Hunter Frontier G captures new trailer
There's never enough Monster Hunter to go around in Japan, where PS3 and Wii U owners now have their sights locked on the newly-announced G ports of Monster Hunter Frontier. Capcom released a new trailer showcasing a few of the massive beasties awaiting intrepid explorers of Monster Hunter ...
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Posted on Aug 6th 2013 3:30PM