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July 30, 2022

Competition

LAST CHANCE! Win one of FIVE RIG 800 PRO headsets & Stranger Of Paradise (+DLC)

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…

psychological horror

Why I can’t review Martha is Dead

I don’t believe topics should be ignored in games, but I do believe that certain issues need to be handled delicately; things like mental illness, sexual assault, and war are not topics to be taken lightly. LKA is, to me, best known for approaching some very sensitive topics in The…

Review: Elex II (Sony PlayStation 5)

I’m not sure there’s ever a precisely right time to release a…

Review: Gran Turismo 7 (Sony PlayStation 5)

I really wish I loved anything as much as Yamauchi Kazunori loves…

Disgaea 5 has a formal release date and we’re counting down the days

June 29, 2015

disgaea/Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance/News/Nippon Ichi Software/NISA/release date/Release Dates/trailer/Trailers

Some news from late last week you might have missed: Nippon Ichi America has announced a formal release date for Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance. It lands in America on October 6 and Europe/ Australia three days later. It’s a PlayStation 4 exclusive, and should more than scratch the itch…

Aussie dev to turn Aussie detective TV series into game for PC and mobile

June 28, 2015

choose your own adventure/Gamebook/Gamebook Adventures/Luke Miller Kerry Greenwood/Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze/Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries/News/Tin Man Games

Tin Man Games is a specialist local developer that is best known for its Gamebook Adventures titles. But it has also had some experience with visual novels and its most successful title is probably the brilliant Ryan North’s To Be Or Not To Be. The company is always looking for…

The Sunday Screenshot Gallery: The Final Fantasy XIV Edition

June 28, 2015

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn/Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward/Screenshot/screenshots/The Sunday screenshot gallery

Sharing screenshots is fun. In fact, the screenshot feature is in many ways the best feature that has been added in to this generation of consoles. It’s fun to share gameplay experiences, amusing anecdotes from the games, a indulge a little of the inner photographer in us. With that in…

Your games of July: Finally, a breather!

June 26, 2015

Ar Nosurge/Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess/F1 2015/Godzilla/list/Lost Dimension/Onechanbara Z2: Chaos/Rory McIlroy PGA Tour/the games of July

July is traditionally one of the slowest month of game releases in the year. Coming after the hype train of E3, it’s an opportunity for the games industry to reset and recover a little before ramping up towards Christmas. It’s no different this year, though there are some gems in…

i-am-loving-look-of-no-pineapple-left

June 26, 2015

Indie/News/No Pineapple Left Behind/PC/satire/simulation/trailer/Trailers

I love games that use satire to make some social commentary. No Pineapple Left Behind is certainly shaping up to be one of those games. It has been developed by Seth Alter, a former educator turned developer, and while the game is nominally a simulation/ strategy game in which you…

The Friday Ten: The dream JRPG team

June 25, 2015

Atelier Meruru/Final Fantasy X/Final Fantasy XIII/Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn/Fire Emblem/Hatsune Miku/Hyperdimension Neptunia/list/Nier/Persona 4/The Friday 10/Top 10

Let’s have a bit of fun with our list this week! Everyone knows that one of the things that we like most in our RPGs and JRPGs are the characters. After all, these are 40, 50, even 80 hour-long games, so if we’re not interested in the plight of the…

apple-is-pulling-games-that-feature

June 25, 2015

Apple/Censorship/iPad/News/Ultimate General: Gettysburg

It looks like Apple is pulling any games it can find that feature the Confederate flag from its App store. But we’re not talking about racist games that heroise the flag or anything like that. We’re talking about historical wargames about the American Civil War that need to use the…

Gadget Review: QPAD 8K Pro Gaming Laser Mouse

June 25, 2015

Gadget/Gadget Review/gaming mouse/Hardware/Hardware Review/Mouse/QPAD/QPAD 8K Pro Gaming Laser Mouse

QPAD’s founder is called Mr Mouse. I assume that this is a nickname, rather than a name he inherited, as the latter would have shown extraordinary foresight on the part of his ancestors. And, in a curious coincidence, it seems that Mr Mouse is very good at making mice. Who…

From the mind behind Katamari Damacy comes Wattom, due 2016

June 25, 2015

Katamari/Keita Takahashi/News/PlayStation 4/PS4/Wattom

Somehow, in the midst of the pre-E3 leaks and general E3 madness, a game managed to slip through the cracks. But this small announcement that some (okay, myself) may have missed brings big excitement! Keita Takahashi, creator of the cult classic Katamari Damacy game and subsequent sequels, has a new…

Review: Adventures of Pip (PC)

June 25, 2015

Adventures of Pip/Indie/PC/PC Review/platformer/Retro/Reviews

Pixels were the original fundamental building blocks of games until crazy things like voxels and polygons came around. But why use pixels now? Is it to tap into people’s nostalgia for a simpler period of gaming? Or by this point is it an artistic choice? The Adventures of Pip certainly…

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