Aussie readers of DDNet, have we got a treat for you! (Note: this competition is only open to Australian residents. Apologies, overseas friends, but I’m sure we’ll have another contest for you soon) Stranger Of Paradise is one of the finest, and smartest, games in Square Enix’s storied series. As we wrote in our 4.5/5 review: Do you know that…
Minecraft is many things to many people. For some it’s a challenge of survival, eking out a living amongst an environment filled with monsters. For others it’s a therapeutic exercise of repletion – dig and craft, dig and craft – the perfect way to unwind after a day’s hard work.…
Read MoreWheels of Destruction adds a slick coat of paint to the tried and true car combat genre. Does it make the grade, or crash and burn? Car combat hasn’t really changed all that much from the earliest days of the genre. If you really think about it, are things all…
Read MoreMany key Nintendo franchises made their way over to the Nintendo 64, bringing some modernization along the way. Rather than try to live up to the 3D overhauls made by Zelda and Mario, Kirby stayed true to the classic formula. Unfortunately, this also made for a very safe, if not…
Read MoreIs there anything other than Minecraft in this week’s update to Xbox’s online marketplace? Yes. Is there anything that you’re likely to care about? Uh, no probably not. I have to admit, I never really got into the whole Minecraft ‘thing’. It just didn’t hold any interest for me, but…
Read MoreDoes the idea of playing another zombie game leave you flat? What if I told you they had giant zit heads and you got to play dermatologist? Yes, giant zit heads, you read right. See, in Zombie Burst on iOS most of the world’s populace has been turned into zeds…
Read MoreThe grandaddy of the first person shooter is 20 years old. Wolfenstein 3D kicked off the FPS craze only a scant pair of decades ago- and now it’s free to play. One of the first PC games that I personally COULD NOT STOP playing, Wolf 3D was a classic the…
Read MoreThe Lordz Game studio is one of my favourite game developers. These are the guys behind the rather excellent Panzer Corps, and the Commander series of games that has appeared on everything from PC to Nintendo DS. Consistently, Lordz produces wargames that are a nice mix of accessibility and depth.…
Read MoreWhile Serious Sam: The First Encounter embodied almost everything fun about the purely twitch-based shooters of the 90s of PC gaming, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter was almost undeniably better. It was more crazy, more varied, and a bit more brutal. It’s also not hard to argue it may be…
Read MoreTecmo Koei is going good in the market. Even given the critical panning that Ninja Gaiden 3 suffered (not by us, mind you), the publisher sold 630,000 copies of the game, and profit for the company was up 69 per cent across the board. Plenty of good quality Warriors releases…
Read MoreThere’s an interesting piece over at IGN about one of the more prominent PlayStation Mini developers. Firma Studios has done a great job giving gamers great Minis to play (Zombie Tycoon, A Space Shooter for 2 Bucks), but, dissatisfied with the return on investment, they’re looking to produce full-featured PSN…
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