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…
Grasshopper Manufacture’s Sine Mora has done the rounds for a while now – it’s on PS3, Xbox 360, PC and was even a PS Plus “freebie” on the Vita. And now, it joins Liberation Maiden as a Goichi Suda production to hit the iPad. If we’re being brutally honest though,…
Read MoreThe man behind those two rather spectacular visions of Alice in Wonderland, American McGee, has launched a Kickstarter to produce Alice: Otherlands, a short film taking place in his dark vision for the Lewis Carroll classic character. (Be sure to check out our exclusive interview with McGee) Alice: Otherlands is…
Read MoreIf you’re running around in circles or picking your jaw up from the floor, don’t feel bad – we did both of these ourselves when this email landed in our inbox too. Legendary composers Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Kenji Ito (Seiken Densetsu) are putting their talents together for the…
Read MoreI like to joke about how many Capcom fighting games eventually come out with a seventeenth Super Duper Spiffy Supreme version, iterating upon itself every few months. The fact of the matter is, Capcom usually does an excellent job with these updates in adding new characters, stages and balancing the…
Read MoreThe games industry can be a wonderful community to be a part of. At their very core games are a balance between art and entertainment, and like film or literature that makes the industry both intellectually rewarding and enjoyable to be an active part of. Playing games are not work,…
Read MoreThere was a title back on the Sega Genesis that earned a pretty solid cult following, called Mutant League Football. It was an over-the-top game where you tried just as hard to hurt the other team as score a touchdown. Produced by Electronic Arts, the engined had a very distinctly…
Read MoreThe Last Door is a unique game. Not because of its typical horror story setup of a nondescript man being summoned to his eccentric friend’s dark, desolate mansion. Not because of its rudimentary point-and-click puzzles that, like those of many adventure games, tend to frustrate. The Last Door is a…
Read MoreWith all the debate currently surrounding Nintendo’s resistance to removing region locking, I thought this week we could have a discussion about the games that you have imported. If you’re American, the only games you might import are those from Japan, but for the rest of the English-speaking world it…
Read MoreTokyo Jungle was a weird game. Not just because it is weird (though any game which features psychopathic Pomeranian that can take down a fully grown freaking Tiger is not just weird, it’s downright terrifying), but because it is a game that I really, truly should have loved. But I…
Read MoreEric Lee Smith Very (very) late last year we reviewed a new iOS release from a new developer. Battle of the Bulge, by, Shenandoah Studios, impressed us mightily because it got some things that are critical to wargames right that most iOS competitors had, to that point, failed to do;…
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