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.
There are several grand ideas that Silicon Valley has championed as the holy grail of technology innovation. Self-aware AI and the ability to colonise space are two of the most well-known examples that tend to occupy the headlines. But another one is the idea of immortality, granted by being able to upload the intellect and soul – whatever you believe…
The release of Virtue and a Sledgehammer, the latest from Selkie Harbour, Deconstructeam, and Devolver Digital, is right around the corner. We’re going to have a review of what is a pretty provocative and powerful entry into the “games as art” genre, and we certainly had some questions for the…
Here’s the thing: I find that a lot of gaming-focused mice don’t…
Well, fellow Final Fantasy fans, here’s our chance. For years now we’ve…
What happens when you take Monopoly and Magic: The Gathering and smoosh them together? Culdcept. Culdcept is what happens. It’s perhaps a marriage between two very different genres of board game that no one really asked for, but the series has been around since 1997 and the Sega Saturn, so…
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Granblue Fantasy: Relink was one of the more surprising JRPGs in recent years. This is partly because the game had a notoriously troubled development cycle, yet turned out to be excellent (generally, if something takes eight years and multiple different developers to finish, it’s going to be terrible). It’s also…
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I knew that I was in for a mighty slog when the tutorial of Sword Art Online: Echoes of Aincrad, felt like it went for an hour all by itself. What a winding, long-winded, slow-paced dungeon that was. And then the game opens up to become a massive… long-winded, slow-paced…
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Digimon is doomed to forever walk in Pokémon’s shadow. Part of the issue is the obvious similarities in the names, but on a superficial pass there are more similarities than that, and Digimon doesn’t always do itself favours there. Both games feature cute anime monsters, but Pokémon’s artists come up…
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The Blood of Dawnwalker is the latest RPG from Europe. I know that this is a hugely trite thing to write on the surface, but my first impression was overwhelmingly that this new title is dripping in the heritage of everything from Gothic to Witcher, Greedfall to Banishers. And I’m…
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There is a comfortable lie at the heart of almost every open-world RPG. The idea that the world is ending (or some other equally dramatic events are unfolding), but all of it is waiting on you to stop it and save the day. The Blood of Dawnwalker, the debut title…
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When the SmartFit EQ Adjustable Multi-Angle Laptop Stand landed on my desk to review, I was actually pretty excited, as I did need a laptop stand to improve my posture. Then I wondered how I was actually going to cover this thing for a gaming website. But! Much as with…
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To review the Gothic 1 Remake, I played it side-by-side with the original Gothic, as released on the Nintendo Switch. One hour in the remake, one in the original. Then back to the remake. I did that because Gothic is, in its own little way, an enormously influential classic. It…
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The origins of the Rhythm Heaven series are noble. One of the legends of Japanese music, Tsunku, got involved with Nintendo and produced the first game in an effort to develop the player’s rhythm skills. You might assume that all rhythm games do that, but in reality, most rhythm games…
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Dungeons & Dragons is great. Really, really great. But it’s a massive time sink and even bigger commitment from the entire group. The last couple of times I’ve tried to get in on a D&D campaign, it has fizzled out once people started to get busy with work, weekends, or…
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