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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…

Review: Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy (Sony PlayStation Vita)

June 2, 2015

5PB/dungeon crawl/JRPG/Mages/NISA/Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy/PlayStation Vita/Reviews/Vita Review

The dungeon crawler has been going through something of a renaissance recently. As the star of Wizardry and Might & Magic has faded (at least, compared to the dominant franchises they once were), we’ve seen a number of Japanese developers do some really interesting things with the genre to revitalise…

Trailer: Gust’s Yoru no Nai Kuni is everything we wanted from Gust on PlayStation 4

June 2, 2015

Gust/JRPG/Keisuke Kikuchi/trailer/Trailers/Yoru no Nai Kuni

Koei Tecmo has released a short, minute-long trailer giving us the slighest teaser into its first project on the PlayStation 4. Surprise, surprise, it looks incredible. As we noted when the game was announced, this project is a collaboration with Koei Tecmo’s veteran producer, Keisuke Kikuchi, and Gust’s development team,…

okay-im-going-to-try-to-make-rpg-maker

June 2, 2015

Final Fantasy Legends/game project/RPG Maker/RPG Maker VX

One of my great uncompleted goals in life is to start (and complete) an RPG Maker game that I’m actually interested in sharing with other people. I keep trying, I really do, but the thing about RPG Maker is that making a game actually takes a lot of time (funny…

Understanding Final Fantasy X; its three key philosophical underpinnings

June 1, 2015

Final Fantasy X/Final Fantasy X HD/Final Fantasy X HD Remaster/Game Theory/JRPG/PlayStation 4/Square Enix

With the recent re-release of Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation 4, I’ve had an excuse to play the game yet again. I’m not quite sure how many times I’ve actually played Final Fantasy X through since my first run on the PlayStation 2, but it’s surely more than a…

Review: Desktop Dungeons (Apple iPad)

June 1, 2015

Apple iPad/Desktop Dungeons/Indie/iPad Review/Reviews/Roguelike

Desktop Dungeons is brilliant. It is so incredibly simple, and so incredibly basic, and yet it is brilliant. Brilliance. Genius. It’s going to be one of the finest games you could ever play on your iPad, and sadly it’s going to be completely overlooked because it’s also being sold for…

Dragon Quest XI on PlayStation 4 false report causes Square Enix stock price to leap through the roof

June 1, 2015

Dragon Quest/Dragon Quest XI/Financial results/Japan/News/Nikkei/Rumour/Square Enix

Dragon Quest is a big deal in Japan. A very big deal. For example, there’s a reason that there’s that popular urban rumour that the Japanese government outlawed the release of a Dragon Quest game on a school/ work day: each new “proper” game in the series really does sell…

Review: Schrodinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 31, 2015

2D platformer/platformer/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/puzzle platformer/Reviews/Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark/Team 17

Ah, that difficult old beast that is comedy. One of the challenges in building a comedic game is that no one has the same sense of humour, and what is funny to one person (or group of people) is not necessarily funny to another. Worse, if a comedy isn’t funny,…

The Sunday screenshot gallery; May 31

May 30, 2015

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…

The games of June: Uh oh…

May 29, 2015

Batman: Arkham Knight/D4/Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward/J-Stars Victory Vs./list/Onechanbara Z2: Chaos/Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy/Steins;Gate/The Elder Scrolls Online/the games of June

If you thought you were going to get a break to follow E3 this year, you were sorely mistaken. In fact, June is going to be one of your busiest months for gaming yet. From the very final Neverland project, to two full MMO experiences, visual novels, Batman, bikini zombie…

The resurgence of pinball, the vinyl of games

May 29, 2015

Australia/Bowral/Features/Jersey Jack Pinball/Major Feature/pinball/Retro/Skill Shot Pinball Co/The Pinball Arcade/Zen Pinball/Zen Studios

Bowral is a town that’s a two hour drive from the CBD of Sydney, Australia, and about forty minutes away from the city’s furthest suburbs. Between the edge of the city and this little country town of around 15,000 people you’ll drive past farms, even smaller villages, and then some…

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