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…
Did you miss us? We sure missed you! It’s the first episode of the DDNet podcast for 2018! This week we chat about what we’re looking forward to over the year, and the first Nintendo Direct of the year had us all kinds of excited. We also start a new…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Indie localisation outfit, Fruitbat Factory, has announced that its latest project – the 100% Orange Juice-developed Acceleration of Suguri 2 – will release on March 7, and it’s decent looking game indeed. Related reading: Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet has a similar theme to this one.…
Read MorePreview by Brad L. We were recently able to access the beta for Dragon Ball FighterZ on the PlayStation 4. For those unaware, Namco Bandai have taken the franchise away from huge arena fights and have condensed it into a 2D fighter akin to the likes of Street Fighter and…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I love Zen Studios and its approach to pinball. I loved Zen Pinball 2 with a passion, and I love Pinball FX 3 even more, if that’s possible. Related reading: Matt’s review of Pinball FX 3. What’s especially impressive is that the developer has been so…
Read MoreArticle by Harvard L. Little Red Lie adds a lot of things to the narrative game genre, but throughout I was fascinated by all the tricks used by developer Will O’Neill to subvert audience expectations and drive home the game’s core themes. This is a game with a razor-sharp critique,…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M., Matt C. and Matt S. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed — but this time we’re supersized and all about last week’s Nintendo Direct! It was a really good…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. I can’t stop thinking about Wizrogue – Labyrinth of Wizardry. It might just be my favourite roguelike this side of Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon, and that means it’s a game I’ve been itching for many years now. Related video: What makes a good roguelike? I was given…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Assassin’s Creed Rogue is the one most people – even Assassin’s Creed fans – forget about. It was released on the last generation of consoles at the same time that the first PlayStation 4 Assassin’s Creed – Unity – was catching eyes for all the wrong…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the most difficult genres to look at critically are those casual match-3 type games. There are just so many of them, and they rarely deviate from one another in any meaningful manner, that it becomes difficult to look at any individual match-3 release on…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I play Space Invaders – the original one – on a weekly basis. I have a $3000 arcade cocktail cabinet in my home, and it’s got something like 10,000 games on it, and basically all I play is Space Invaders (okay, I occasionally break out Pac-Man…
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