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…
Review by Matt S. Razer makes good keyboards. I already said as much when I reviewed the Razer BlackWidow Ultimate a few weeks ago. Razer, in fact, understands keyboards so well that it also understands that the maddeningly click noise that mechanical keyboards cause is the #1 cause of spousal…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Disappointed that the second season of Date a Live only ran for ten episodes? Don’t despair just yet. Coinciding with the conclusion of the show’s second season (which just finished airing this week), it was announced via Date a Live’s official Twitter page that the show…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The world of MMO gaming is an interesting one, because it is so incredibly fluid. Once upon a time you’d buy a game, put it in your console or PC drive and that was what you got. Then came patches and online communities where players could…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Dating all the way back to 1990, Final Fantasy III helped to take the storyline and character progression of the series further than ever before. I had always enjoyed the first two Final Fantasy games, but their stories were sparse, relying more on conversations with random…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so every so often we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. E3 has all shut up shop for 2014, and it has been an exciting one. We’re rather sad it’s all over, in fact. But we have one more trailer for you this year; introducing a new handheld console, the Steamboy. This console, which uses the Steam…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Tamara Schembri and Peter Budziszewski; an Aussie indie team with a love of the whole “games as art” deal. As you can probably guess, I immediately became a fan. Budziszewski is a veteran of the Australian games industry, having…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It wouldn’t be an E3 without controversy. This year that controversy is a statement that an Ubisoft spokesman made to the effect of “there are no playable female assassins in Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s multiplayer component because animating women is too much work.” I actually wasn’t going…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Fantasy Grounds isn’t a game in and of itself. But it’s almost certainly going to end up being my most valued piece of Steam software. For Fantasy Grounds is a bit of software that allows you to play pen-and-paper (PnP) RPGs with family and friends from…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Simplicity can be both a good and a bad thing. At the best of times, simplicity makes a game feel second nature, and at the worst the game becomes tiresome all too soon. And Pulstar is an example of the latter. Billing itself as a twin…
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