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…
News by Matt S. Oh my. Oh. Oh. Ohhhhhhh. Look, if Nintendo wanted some boring coverage of its exciting new console, it wouldn’t have announced it after 11pm at night. But that’s what Nintendo has done, and I’m being a good, dutiful journalist in reporting just how much I want…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. It’s fan service, it’s satire, and it’s fun! Akiba’s Trip took the whole hikikomori trend in Japan, as well as the social and cultural concerns that have come from it, and spun it into an entertaining PSP game about a decade ago. Now it has been…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ve been fortunate in that I was able to go into Doki Doki Literature Club Plus having never played the original, and also not knowing a whole lot about it. I was aware that it was a horror game and the initially bright and bubbly presentation…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Sometimes you put off playing a game that you regret the moment you start actually playing it. This has been my experience with Cross The Moon. I’ve had a copy sitting on my PC for over a year, but it was only because I had an…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Before we get into talking about the game’s many (many) merits, I want to start by saying that Cross The Moon is so incredibly inspiring to me. It’s a visual novel made on a hyper-indie budget and, as a person making my own VNs on hyper-indie…
Read MoreList by Matt S. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. As some of you will know, we’ve been doing regular streams over the last year or so on the DDNet YouTube channel, showcasing the latest and greatest games, while chatting with people about those games (and just about everything else) as we go along. If you’d…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I’ve finally been able to get some hands-on time with the console (PlayStation 4) version of Samurai Warriors 5. As my favourite series within the Musou genre (one of my favourite genres), I’ve been aching for a go as other critics have been previewing it on…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. This week in the week in review! PlayStation Plus games for July announced: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/07/here-are-the-july-2021-playstation-plus-games/ Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds hits $100 million in revenue in just 11 Days: https://www.siliconera.com/ni-no-kuni-cross-worlds-grossed-over-100-million-in-11-days/ Konami and Bloober Team team up… almost certainly for Silent Hill: https://www.siliconera.com/konami-bloober-team-silent-hill/ The first three Final Fantasy…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We can chalk this up as a game that almost certainly won’t get a localisation, but over in Japan, Nippon Ichi is set to publish a game from developer, Fog, that is looking truly wonderful. The game’s called Fuuraiki 4, and it’s a real-world visual novel…
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