Review by Jim S. The Firemen 2: Pete and Danny is the imaginatively-titled sequel to the Super Nintendo’s The Firemen. It’s also a game that has never been released outside of Japan, until now. I love and have played almost every firefighting game there is (weird genre to be a…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. If you’re keen to get an idea of the kind of our upcoming (well, later this year) The Interactive Canvas will look and feel like, I thought I’d drop a quick note to highlight a couple of great books from our publisher, No Starch Press. If…
Read MoreOpinion by Chris I. This past Thursday, Nintendo held an investor’s meeting to give insight into the company’s response to the market pressures that it is facing. Nintendo’s stock dipped throughout the proceedings. While this a normal response when any company when it announces a major new strategy, Nintendo’s recent offerings…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Skyjoy is a newly-formed independent studio with some lofty ambitions indeed. It’s aim is nothing short of producing the Mario of the mobile gaming industry. That’s the ultimate dream of the team who are hard at work creating Super Kid Cannon; an adorably cute platform/ physics…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 has an open world, and that’s the focus of this latest trailer/ developer diary from developer MercurySteam. The video stars Dave Cox, Producer of the game, and Enric Alvarez, the Head of Development at MercurySteam. According to the press…
Read MoreNews by Shaan J. It’s been nearly four years since the release of Final Fantasy XIII, and while it won’t mark the end of the ‘Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy’ series, the upcoming release of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is set to conclude the story arc of the titular Lightning.…
Read MoreIn today’s news; a new trailer emerges for Telltale’s next Fables installment, a brand new LEGO Star Wars title drops out of lightspeed and onto iOS, Bandai announces Super Mario Bros figures and playsets and Nintendo tries to ease concerns about its financials. Episode 2 trailer for Fables: A Wolf…
Read MoreArticle by Jim S. Welcome to a new DDNet feature! Each month our resident list expert, Jim, will pull together a list of the must-play games for the month – and that means you won’t miss any of them! January was a slow mouth for gaming (as is traditional for…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Paper Sorcerer is one of those successful Kickstarter projects that has been released to the exact specifications that were promised in its Kickstarter campaign. If you didn’t back the original campaign, be sure to go and pick up this cheap little indie game. Because it’s ace.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Contrast, the rather exceptional indie title from Compulsion Games, has hit a landmark; it has been downloaded one million times by people playing it on PlayStation hardware (PS3 and PS4). Of course, a big part of that success was due to the fact that it was…
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