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:…
I firmly believe that a good headset is worth the investment. You can find headsets out there for under $100, in supermarkets or discount stores. They’re often convenient and wireless, and I’m not going to suggest they don’t work, because they do. But so much effort goes into sound design…
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Retro publisher, SNEG, recently brought a slew of Warhammer classics to Steam – many for the first time. SNEG is a prolific publisher of such things, with the company previously responsible for a massive number of DOS-era Dungeons & Dragons titles, as well as a significant portion of the classic…
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When Tales of Arise was released back in 2021, it was a pretty pointed and interesting essay on oppression, revolution, and what comes after. You can probably see where this review of the new Switch 2 complete release, coming in 2026, is going. As I noted in my review of…
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Of all the various bits and pieces that you can connect to a computer, I find the ergonomics of the mouse to be critical. If it’s uncomfortable to click or move around, the hand suffers, and it doesn’t take long for the pain to settle in. Over the course of…
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When I think about the correct term to describe Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, I find myself alternating between “whimsical”, “playful” and “twee”. It’s also saccharine, and that will make it polarising to an extent, but then if you’re not open to Yoshi melting your heart, I would argue that…
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As you all know, I’m working on a visual novel about my great passion in life, Dancesport. After three years and all kinds of issues along the way, it’s finally getting close to being finished. You can Wishlist it on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3693000/The_Last_Waltz/ As I’ve been working on the game,…
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Every so often, a game gets released that gets all kinds of kudos, but when I sit down to play it, none of the “hype” makes sense to me. Mouse: P.I. For Hire is an example of that. This game makes no sense to me. Mouse: P.I. For Hire should…
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I almost forgot about Supermassive Games’ Dark Pictures Anthology. That’s not from a lack of quality – each title in the series to date has been very worthy – but it’s just that things move quickly in video games and the Dark Pictures titles don’t quite have the longevity behind…
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There was a moment there where I thought that my issues with the big AAA-blockbuster space were with me. That I’d become jaded from having played far too many games, and seeing how the sausage gets made first-hand, and therefore I had lost perspective. Yet Pragmata then came and demonstrated…
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Heroes of Might and Magic is finally back, and I couldn’t be happier. This is one of my favourite franchises of all – I even have the entire, expanded board game adaptation of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 thanks to a very generous brother who bought the whole damn…
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