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.
Omen of Sorrow is something that 18-year-old me would have found so totally cool. Drenched in gothic grim darkness, it’s an effort to bring together vampires, werewolves, dark angels, succubi, mummies and… well, Elizabeth Bathory, into a game that looks and feels like an emo kid’s “black-as-their-soul” poetry. While I’d like to think that my sense of aesthetics is a…
Transport Fever 2 is a celebration of the value that transport networks bring populations. It is a “builder” simulator, but similar to the likes of the classic Transport Tycoon and A-Train, you don’t build the building directly. You build the road, train, ship and air transport networks that the cities…
I haven’t played an Anno game since Anno: Create A New World…
I worry that the wonderful folk at the developer, Gust, have lost…
It’s that time of year, friends! The house is filled with greens and reds, the music channels all start dropping the Wham, Buble and Mariah, the fridge fills up with eggnog and we gorge ourselves on fruit mince pie. It’s such a special time of year! We love the season…
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I do imagine that the deck-building genre is about to hit a lull. For several years now it’s been one of the darlings of the indie industry, as it works nicely with the roguelike structures that indies favour. Additionally, it allows for quite a bit of depth via the cards…
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There are two options when it comes to your avatar in a game: a named character, where you have limited control over how they look and behave, and a character creator, where you have complete control, but at the expense of them having a “character” in the game. In this…
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We’ve got something a little different for you today – we don’t often do interviews with folks from outside of the games industry, but the opportunity arose to have a quick chat with Glitch Productions, the Australian animation studio that has been turning heads with the quality of its Web…
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It’s that time of year, friends! The house is filled with greens and reds, the music channels all start dropping the Wham, Buble and Mariah, the fridge fills up with eggnog and we gorge ourselves on fruit mince pie. It’s such a special time of year! We love the season…
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I really never thought I would play Jesus Christ does Morrowind. There are Christian games, yes (and they’re universally terrible). There are open world games. It’s such a surreal idea to combine the two of these that I’m still struggling to parse it despite having played through the prologue. And…
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Open world is a popular “genre” these days, and most developers – especially those working at the higher end of town – are particularly keen on them. Because of this, everything from Pokemon to Final Fantasy, Dynasty Warriors to The Legend of Zelda, and even The Witcher has shifted from…
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Hello friends! I wanted to share this brief update, because you’ll likely see some changes to the DDNet website in the coming days (if not within the next 24 hours). Basically, we’re going to be running a small number of advertisements on the site, and I didn’t want that to…
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It’s that time of year, friends! The house is filled with greens and reds, the music channels all start dropping the Wham, Buble and Mariah, the fridge fills up with eggnog and we gorge ourselves on fruit mince pie. It’s such a special time of year! We love the season…
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Normally December is meant to be a quiet month for big game releases, but thanks to Square Enix in particular, this year’s December release schedule is actually pretty robust! Join the DDNet team as we go through the big December releases, and please do let us know what you’re looking…
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