Matt S. is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of DDNet. He's been writing about games for over 20 years, including a book, but is perhaps best-known for being the high priest of the Church of Hatsune Miku.
I love Hatsune Miku. I’m pretty sure I’ve said that on this site before. However, I’ll keep saying it as long as the character and the games she appears in are as adorable as Hatsune Miku: The Planet of Wonder and Fragments of Wishes get published. Crypton – the IP rights holder behind Miku – has been working very hard…
Shadows of the Damned is pure grindhouse. Originally released way back in 2011, the game follows the story of Garcia, a motorcycle-riding tough guy, as he descends into hell to rescue his lingerie-clad true love from an army of demons. Armed with Johnson (a talking skull-gun ally and, yes, the…
Sports anime and manga are not uncommon in Japan. Football, basketball, volleyball,…
What is it with sports video games and card-based modes being the…
I love Hatsune Miku. I’m pretty sure I’ve said that on this site before. However, I’ll keep saying it as long as the character and the games she appears in are as adorable as Hatsune Miku: The Planet of Wonder and Fragments of Wishes get published. Crypton – the IP…
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Shadows of the Damned is pure grindhouse. Originally released way back in 2011, the game follows the story of Garcia, a motorcycle-riding tough guy, as he descends into hell to rescue his lingerie-clad true love from an army of demons. Armed with Johnson (a talking skull-gun ally and, yes, the…
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Sports anime and manga are not uncommon in Japan. Football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, figure skating and even badminton have popular stories that aim to make the sport, as well as the characters and their narrative arcs, interesting to both fans of the sport and complete newcomers. Related reading: If you…
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What is it with sports video games and card-based modes being the focus? I do understand that sports and cards go together fine. I used to collect basketball cards myself. But I always thought the appeal in those was the tangible collectability (and potential value) of them. Apparently, there’s something…
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Have you ever played a game that feels like it was designed specifically for you? Jack Jeanne is just that to me. In fact, I’m working on a visual novel project myself, and I’m shocked at just how thematically and structurally similar it will be to Jack Jeanne (at least,…
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Artists are forever predicting the future. Sometimes the predictions are merely a testing idea that doesn’t play out. Sometimes they nail it. We’re about to talk about an example of artists totally nailing it. Overnight (for us here in Australia) Apple revealed the Vision Pro; a new high-end set of…
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Nightmare Reaper aims to be a blend of roguelike and nostalgic throwback to the “boomer shooter” era of Doom. In a sense, it succeeds. It is indeed a roguelike (with procedurally-generated levels and a need to start from scratch with each death), and it has the violence and manic action…
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Hello friends, supporters and dear readers! Once per year, we like to run a simple survey of our readers. It helps us shape our coverage and how we go about the site, the coverage we prepare and prioritise, and generally speaking your experience of the site. This is actually the…
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With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, we got a truly exceptional sequel (and game). But it hasn’t been completely without criticism. There have been people that felt that as a “sequel” the re-use of the world map was a “lazy” decision by the developers. So in this…
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One of the many things that we’re looking forward to seeing in Final Fantasy XVI is how it handles storytelling, because it seems like the developers are bringing some interesting ideas to the table there that will help to make game narratives more accessible to more people. Or, to put…
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