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…
News by Matt S. Candy Crush Saga is a pretty popular game. I think everyone knows about King’s little Match-3 ripoff that could. But it’s not an original game concept by any means, which is why the company’s new strategy to take action against anyone who uses the word “Candy”…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, we have launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With that…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Well, those rumours that we reported on not long ago have panned out to be true; card-battling strategy game, Monster Monpiece, is indeed heading out to the west. This is something that we never thought would happen, given Monster Monpiece’s risque premise, and it’s quite an…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s a shame that Ubisoft decided to Assassin’s Creed Liberation’s hero, Aveline, on a portable game. While the original Vita release was a fine game in its own way, it was clear that this game didn’t have the production budget of the “real” Assassin’s Creed games.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The SteelSeries Stratus is an exciting bit of hardware. Taking advantage of Apple’s new native support for wireless controllers, this little controller gives your iOS games buttons… and then lets you play them on your TV at home courtesy of your Apple TV. This device only…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Just before Christmas we reported the very sad news that the developer of Rune Factory 4, Neverland, had gone bankrupt, despite its final game (that being Rune Factory 4), being a massive hit on the charts. With the game not yet released in Europe and Australia,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In what will be a surprise to no one, Disney’s Skylanders riff, Disney Infinity, is off to a spectacular start. According to a report published on gamesindustry.biz, the company has sold three million starter packs to date. That’s just the starter packs, mind you, not individual…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, we have launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. How could a developer – even one as experienced in producing strategy games as Paradox Development Studio – possibly hope to add to the experience of the near-perfect Europa Universalis IV? A game that deep, that rich with content, couldn’t possibly offer even more through an…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ok, so as a disclaimer first: I’ve never actually reviewed a mouse before. It’s one of those things that you use, but you don’t really think about, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve never bothered with those hardcore gamer mice (frankly, it wouldn’t help me), but…
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