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…
Bloooooooooooooo. Booooooooooooo. Ahem. Bloo Kid 2 is so bad it made me feel bloo. No, wait, blue! The stupid game is making my IQ bleed out all over the place. Look, there are homages to old games out there, and it’s perfectly reasonable for indie developers to want to make…
Read MoreThe folks over at Coin Bump must be doing some strange things in their office to gain inspiration for their games. Hero Hustle recently launched on iOS, and it’s inexplicably flashy and busy and cool and addictive all at once. Read on as I attempt to explain what may be…
Read MoreGradius V was the final Gradius release from Konami, back in 2004, and was originally released on the PlayStation 2. It has now come back as a PS2 Classic and has been made available on the PlayStation Network to a new audience. As I originally said in my Soldner-X 2:…
Read MoreHighlands is a turn-based strategy game by Burrito Studio, another one of those micro indie development teams. And, as the team’s first game, its a good one, with plenty to offer fans of the RPG and strategy genres. Highlands’ setting is reasonably unique, taking place on a series of floating…
Read MoreMore good Koei Tecmo news, folks! Days after the published unveiled a spectacular-looking JRPG from GUST for the PlayStation 4 and announced that it is finally localising another Nobunaga’s Ambition comes the news that Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 is actually being localised. If the Samurai Warriors Chronicles franchise isn’t familiar…
Read MoreDivoom’s range of Bluetooth speakers just keeps getting better. Back in 2013, we took a look at the Onbeat-200, a chunky, brick-like affair with reasonable sound quality. Next, there was the Voombox Travel, a chunky, grenade-shaped device which performed rather well. Today, it’s the turn of the Airbeat-10. This one…
Read MoreWe had thought that Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX would be released this month – we even announced it in our list of monthly releases, because that had been the original expected release date. Sadly, the production line seems to have encountered some difficulties over at SEGA HQ, and the…
Read MorePeople once commented on BioWare’s uncanny streak for creating one great game after another, stating (as quoted on one website) “you know, some of us used to joke around about good companies like BioWare, saying that they could basically poop on the carpet, take video of it, encode it onto…
Read MoreExperimental from start to finish, Toren is a breathtaking, insightful, and incisive experience. A sincere attempt to recapture the rhythm and form of poetry within the bounds of an interactive game, I am confident in saying it’s unlike anything you have ever played before, but once you move past its…
Read MoreTaking a free-to-play mobile game as popular as Puzzle & Dragons, and trying to spin it into a “pay once, play forever” type of experience was a great risk. Perhaps greater than even the publisher, GungHo, predicted. Related reading: You can also check out our review of the original mobile…
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