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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: Rise Eterna (Nintendo Switch)

May 19, 2021

Indie/JRPG/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/Switch Review/Tactics RPG

Review by Matt S. I have a voracious appetite for tactics JRPGs. Especially if they look and feel like Fire Emblem. I’ve never forgotten just how much I fell in love with the first Fire Emblem to be released in English (the on the Game Boy Advance, and I swear…

game-jams-produce-art-they-deserve-more

May 19, 2021

game jam/Opinion

Opinion by Harvard L. It’s hard to state the significance of Essays on Empathy (reviewed here) without at least mentioning the significance of Game Jams. More than half of the games in this collection were originally created for Ludum Dare, or other time-restrictive challenges. In a Game Jam, participants are…

Review: Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster (Nintendo Switch)

May 18, 2021

Atlus/JRPG/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/Sega/Shin Megami Tensei III/Switch Review

Review by Matt S. It would be so easy to look at Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, view its unrelenting darkness, its crushing, claustrophobic difficulty, and the heavy use of religious aesthetics and iconography, and just assume that all of that is in the service of a kind of primitive…

Review: Death Crown (Nintendo Switch)

May 18, 2021

casual/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/Strategy/Switch Review

Review by Matt S. Death Crown is almost unplayable on Switch, and has given me a headache every time I have tried. Consequently, this is going to be a pretty short review, and that’s a pity because I love almost everything about it. The most immediately obvious quality about Death…

this-hand-drawn-metroidvania-being

May 17, 2021

2D platformer/Indie/Metroidvania/News/platformer/release date/Release Dates/trailer/Trailers

News by Matt S. Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain (SIE Spain) and Aeternum Game Studios have announced that Aeterna Noctis, a “hand-drawn Metroidvania,” will release on PlayStation 4 and 5 on December 15. This game looks absolutely gorgeous. It’s going to be a huge game, with 16 levels, 100 regular enemies,…

Interesting games on itch.io: May 17

May 17, 2021

Art Game/Indie/itch/itch.io/list/Top 10/top 5

List by Matt S. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows…

Review: The Colonists (Nintendo Switch)

May 17, 2021

Indie/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/simulation/strategy game/Switch Review

Review by Harvard L. The Colonists is like peaceful Age of Empires, or Forager with a more robust mission structure. If that sounds amazing, I’m sure you’ll already love this game. It’s a strictly single-player engine builder, with slowly growing cities mining primary resources and refining them into secondary and…

Catch up with last week’s gameplay streams: May 17

May 17, 2021

JRPG/Nintendo Switch/Retro/streaming/Video/Video review

News by Matt S. As some of you will know, we’ve been doing regular streams over the last year or so on the DDNet YouTube channel, showcasing the latest and greatest games, while chatting with people about those games (and just about everything else) as we go along. If you’d…

Final Fantasy XIV’s next wave of stuff to do has been announced

May 17, 2021

Final Fantasy XIV/MMO/News/PlayStation 5/Square Enix

News by Matt S. Over the weekend, Square Enix hosted the annual Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival for 2021, and like usual, they used it as an opportunity to share all the upcoming content that fans can look forward to from this already ridiculously massive MMO. First up is Patch…

the-may-2021-edition-of-dee-dee-zine-is

May 14, 2021

Dee Dee Zine/News/Patreon

News by Matt S. I am super excited to say that the May 2021 edition of the Dee Dee Zine is now available! It has 48 pages of commentary, thoughts, and essays on games, literature, toys, art, history and culture, with a focus on Japan (of course). Features this month…

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