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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…

in-japan-microsoft-has-tried-to-copy

May 26, 2015

Microsoft/News/Weird News/Windows 10/Windows 10 girl

Just when you think tech news can’t get weirder… Everyone who reads Digitally Downloaded knows of Hatsune Miku, right? The anime girl creation of Crypton that was designed to sell vocaloid software has become such a popular character in her own right that Crypton has even developed special screen technology…

On Life is Strange: Episode 3: It’s all about the characters

May 26, 2015

adventure game/adventure games/Art Game/Dontnod Entertainment/Life is Strange/Life is Strange: Episode 3/point-and-click adventure

In what has quickly become my most anticipated update each month, Square Enix and Dontnod have unleashed the third episode of their arthouse narrative adventure, Life is Strange. As with my previous wrap, I won’t write a formal review, having already reviewed the first episode, until I can review the…

On the magic of rediscovering pinball

May 25, 2015

Opinion/pinball/real pinball machine/Retro/The Pinball Arcade

I played pinball all weekend last weekend. It was a spectacular waste of time, but completely reinvigorated my love for gaming, amazingly enough. It’s actually funny how long it has been since I’ve played pinball for any real length of time on a real pinball machine. I’m a real, genuine…

Review: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 25, 2015

CD Projekt Red/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/RPG/The Witcher 3/The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt/western RPG

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the very epitome of blockbuster game design. In that lofty caste of game developers able to produce titles with obscene production values made by a veritable ant farm of workers it sits comfortably on an iron throne it carved from the bodies of its…

gumi Asia; on Chain Chronicle’s worldwide success and the need to be different to Japan

May 25, 2015

Chain Chronicle/F2P/Free-to-play/gumi/Interview/Interviews

Recently, gumi Asia’s port of SEGA’s Chain Chronicle hit a milestone; one million downloads of the English “worldwide” release. While it’s a free-to-play game, and therefore that massive number doesn’t translate directly into financial success, it is nevertheless a significant achievement when you consider that while people in the west…

Review: Ultratron (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 24, 2015

dual-stick shooter/Indie/PS4 Review/Retro/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4/Ultratron

Ultratron is a flashy twin-stick arcade shooter that gives players the goal of nothing short of complete vengeance. Taking control of a robot, players set out to eliminate its own kind after their total annihilation of the human race. How far he makes it against the robots of the apocalypse…

The Sunday screenshot gallery; May 24

May 23, 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 Friday Ten; The ten finest PlayStation 4 games to date

May 22, 2015

Bloodborne/Don Bradman Cricket/Hand Of Fate/Natural Doctrine/Omega Quintet/Samurai Warriors 4/The Friday 10/The Witcher 3/Top 10/Toren/Tropico 5/Valiant Hearts: The Great War

As we previously noted, the PlayStation 4 is off to a heck of a start. Just 18 months in, and it already offers a massive range of experiences, from the most niche of the Japanese games to the most mainstream blockbusters, and a whole lot of independent and arthouse brilliance…

hellraid-is-on-hold-interview-with

May 22, 2015

Books/Game Art/Hellraid/Interview/Interviews/Konrad Czernik/sad news/techland

One of the upcoming games that we were anticipating a great deal was Techland’s Hellraid. A first person co-operative slash-em-up set in a gothic horror nightmare sounded like a lot of fun to us, especially coming from the team responsible for the creative Dead Island and Dying Light. Unfortunately in…

review-axiom-verge-sony-playstation-4

May 21, 2015

2D platformer/Axiom Verge/Indie/Metroidvania/platformer/PS4 Review/Retro/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4

Imagine you’re hungry; hungry for retro platforming shooters, but have no retro consoles sitting around. How would you resurrect those past memories of Bionic Commando or Contra; or if you’re of the new young generation, experience for the first time the awesomeness that is Metroid or Castlevania? The answer lies…

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