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.
Blue Reflection has been a difficult series for Koei Tecmo to manage thanks to its enormously niche premise. Four products in, it’s also difficult to suggest that bad missteps were not made along the way. The original Blue Reflection got itself released and then un-released in parts of the world like Australia for being too much for an R-18+ rating…
I have lost track of how many times I’ve played Final Fantasy X (and X-2) now. I remember playing it for the first time on the PlayStation 2, and then getting into fights on early-era bulletin boards on who was best out of Rikku, Lulu and Yuna (Rikku, of course).…
EPOMAKER is rapidly becoming a favourite keyboard manufacturer. I love the company’s…
Here’s the problem with playing a single-player spinoff from a multiplayer property:…
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is what happens when the Octopath Traveler team decides they’re going to tackle Zelda next. It’s an incredibly brave project. Zelda doesn’t really need a “spiritual sequel,” with Nintendo very much committed to its continuation. And it’s Nintendo’s single biggest property. To actively…
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As a professional writer, the experience of writing matters to me a great deal. Especially when I’m writing for pleasure. With the EPOMAKER Glyph, I have a device that I truly, deeply love writing on. The aesthetic appeal of the thing should be obvious without me needing to explain it:…
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Idea Factory and its otome factory, Otomate, is at its best when working with stories based in history. Hakuouki, for example. Or the first Birushana, which was set in the Heian period of Japanese history and let you hang out with Benkei and other famous boys (made pretty) while the…
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Of all the devices that I get to test and review at DDNet, the brand I tend to return to for daily use after the testing is done is SteelSeries. They tend to be the devices that are the most ergonomic, durable, and simply fun to use. This is a…
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I love when an announcement comes out of nowhere and gets you to jump up and do a happy dance. That’s what happened about a day ago when a press release landed in my inbox announcing that the original Culdcept was going to be re-released on Steam, and in English…
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People love K-pop idol groups, and this is one of the least controversial things I’ve ever written. Where J-pop has traditionally struggled outside of the domestic market, K-pop has become one of Korea’s most powerful cultural exports. So it’s entirely unsurprising that there would be K-Pop Idol Stories: Road to…
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I don’t have too much to say about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the Nintendo Switch 2, as I already reviewed the game on PlayStation a few years ago, other than to say that, much like its predecessor, it feels like it’s a minor miracle that it’s on the console,…
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The Talos Principle has always been a series that asks far more of players than simply solving puzzles. Across its first two entries, Croteam’s philosophical sci-fi series has used artificial intelligence, memory, faith, society and consciousness as the framework for something much more human: a meditation on what it means…
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I am a James Bond nerd. Everyone has their vices, okay? But I am. Watched all the films often enough that I’d give a 007 trivia competition a red hot go. Choreographed ballroom dancing shows to various theme songs. Read all the books. Even went out there in the early…
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I am so bad at Sektori, but I love it so much. Originally released back in 2025, to some blistering good reviews, but only some (for some weird reason, the game has largely missed critics and audiences alike), Sektori is finally available on the Nintendo Switch 2, which I would…
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