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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: Cubetractor (PC)

August 21, 2013

Cubetractor/PC/puzzle/Reviews

There are so many tower defense games out there that it comes as a nice change when a game comes along and tries to change up the genre. Cubetractor tries, but doesn’t succeed. Listed as a “neo-retroesque action-strategy-puzzle hybrid”, Cubetractor sees you taking control of the little droid Endroi, who…

Review: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (PS3)

August 20, 2013

2K Games/PlayStation/PlayStation 3/Reviews/Shooter/tactics game/XCom/XCOM Declassified

Watching what Edward D. Wood thought would be his magnum opus, Plan 9 From Outer Space, it’s easy to see how much care went into such a flawed product. Wood was a truly horrible director, but the ideas found within his work were remarkably progressive; he’s a man that cared…

Pokemon games are popular. Who knew?

August 20, 2013

Nintendo 3DS/Pokemon/Pokemon Black/Pokemon White/Pokemon X and Y/Release Information/screenshots

Over the weekend at a game show in Tokyo, The Pokemon Company released some pretty interesting statistics. Pokemon Black/White sold 15.42 million copies as of March 31 of this year, and Pokemon Black 2/White 2 moved 7.81 million copies. In total, 172 million Pokemon games have been sold worldwide. That…

Review: The Life Of A Pacifist Is Often Fraught With Conflict (Ouya)

August 20, 2013

Art Game/Bento Smile/controversy/Indie Game/Ouya/review/Reviews/violence

If the name alone of this short little freeware visual novel does not automatically cue you in that this is not a major production title, feel free to stop reading this review right now. Standing against violence in video games is something that hardly any major publisher would ever dream…

Review: Pokémon Rumble U (Wii U)

August 20, 2013

action/Arcade/Miniatures/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/Pokemon/Pokemon Rumble/Reviews/Wii U/Wii U eShop

Back when the 3DS didn’t have much software to speak of, I found myself hopelessly addicted to Pokémon Rumble Blast. It was addictive in short bursts and offered a nice little level structure that had me wanting to replay levels over and over again to catch all the critters. Pokémon…

nnooo-looks-build-australian-games

August 19, 2013

Australia/Cubemen/Cubemen 2/Features/Indie/Nnooo/publishing

Nic Watt (left) Twitter has proven to be a great resource; both for finding news and for finding like-minded people. For Australian independent developer, Nnooo, Twitter also found it its first business opportunity as a publisher. “We hadn’t actually met Seon (Rozenblum, CEO of 3 Sprockets) before we had organised…

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD announced, screenshots inside

August 19, 2013

action/announcement/castlevania/Castlevania Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate/Konami/News/platformer/PlayStation/screenshots/Xbox 360

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate already hit the 3DS earlier this year during March, but fast-forward half a year later and the game is slated for a multi-platform console release. Konami revealed the re-release as well as a batch of screenshots via the game’s official Facebook page…

4-for-four-classic-strategy-games-take

August 19, 2013

Bundle/Capitalism/Joan of Arc/Seven Kingdoms II/Strategy/Warlords Battlecry

We don’t usually report on game bundles, because if we did, and reported on every single one of them, we’d be doing nothing else. But I did feel the need to report on a particularly good looking bundle for strategy game nuts. If for some reason you are a fan…

Review: Don’t Look Back (Ouya)

August 19, 2013

Freeware/Indie Game/Ouya/Retro/review/Terry Cavanagh

Terry Cavanagh is a name that I expect that most any of you reading this here at DDNet will be quite familiar with (Super Hexagon, anyone?). He’s been developing short freeware indie games and publishing them on numerous digital services for quite sometime now, and Don’t Look Back is one…

Review: DuckTales Remastered (Wii U)

August 19, 2013

Capcom/Duck Tales/Duck Tales Remastered/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/platformer/Reviews/Wayforward/Wii U

Wayforward has an interesting track record. When the developer is working on a passion project, it is unbelievably good. When the team cares about the material they drip their hearts and souls into creating gorgeous, personality-filled animation and characters, and classic 2D level design. The other half of Wayforward’s business…

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