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…
Funcom, the legendary Swedish developer behind the critically acclaimed and widely enamored The Longest Journey, will be releasing their recent offering, The Park, on consoles. It is its first console outing in a decade (its last console game was Dreamfall: The Longest Journey on the Xbox in 2006). Related reading:…
Read MoreSword Art Online: Last Song hits a lot of really comfortable notes along the way, making some improvements to gameplay over the original game that should make it more accessible to most players. However, the target audience here is clearly fans of the source material, and others might not come…
Read MoreI can think of no single gaming genre more competitive than the shooter right now. Certainly there are games out there such as MOBAs, MMOs, sports and more that have their intense, passionate fan bases, but as someone who has friends who adhere to just about every genre out there,…
Read MoreKromaia Omega deserves a gold trophy and a plaque that reads “most ambitious shoot ’em up of the decade”. It’s not as though the genre is starved for novel ideas; there have been countless shakeups to the classic 1980s arcade formula with titles like 99 Bullets and Everyday Shooter that…
Read MoreHello everyone and welcome to the future! The air is clean, the water is clear, global warming – or its new moniker “climate change” – has been stemmed off with initiatives to keep the arctic cold through advances in technology and careful regulation. Life is great! So get comfortable because…
Read MoreOver the last couple of years, the annual Japan film festival, which brings some of the most impressive films from Japan to Australia, has become one of my most anticipated events of the year. In 2015 it didn’t disappoint. Related reading: My interview with one of the organisers of the…
Read MoreI love ambitious games, I really do, and Poncho is nothing if not ambitious. From the very beginning it evokes a sense of wonder through its lavishly designed sprites and Mode 7 parallax scrolling, taking you through a great cataclysm before throwing you into the shoes of Poncho, a small…
Read MoreI have fond memories of yelling “Olly olly oxen free!” as a child. After all, that phrase meant it was safe to come out of hiding without fear of being penalized while playing hide-and-seek. It was also shouted by Newman before he jumped into the pool (and onto the pool…
Read MoreI am just going to put everything on the line right out of the gate: Layers of Fear is not easy to play. Actually, let me correct that: it isn’t easy to play if you’re a giant wimp, much like myself. I’ve played my fair share of games in preview,…
Read MoreI first got a taste for Zodiac two years ago, where, as a freshly announced game, it occupied a major-sized booth at Tokyo Game Show. Buggy as it was back then I saw an awful lot of potential in it as a 2D RPG with similar production standards that won…
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