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.
Capcom has announced Resident Evil: Requiem. This is the ninth title in the series, and it’s bringing things back full circle. In that I mean the game features a return to Racoon City. Or, at least, seems to. The game’s announce trailer features the destroyed rubble of the city. It also heavily features Alyssa Ashcroft from Outbreak, so it’s pretty…
As far as multiplayer with a bunch of randoms goes, social deduction games are probably my favourite. The nature of these things encourages players to play by the rules and behave (at least to an extent), so you tend to run into fewer experience-breaking arseholes. Or at least, that’s been…
It’s finally here! The sequel to the best console of all time!…
There are over 1,100 games registered to my Nintendo Switch account. When…
When a series is known for being as surrealistic as the Yakuza series is, keeping it fresh over the long term is all the more challenging. After all, the oddball stops being oddball when it becomes mundane. Thankfully, to date the developers at Ryu Ga Gotoku have been able to…
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I consider myself pretty well-versed in video games. I’ve reviewed more games on DDNet alone than most people play in a lifetime, after all. I’m also a massive fan of retro games and spend a big chunk of my time playing stuff from the year 2000 and before. So every…
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There’s a literary device called the Deus Ex Machina (no, the game series didn’t invent that cool-sounding word), which describes when an author uses a plot device to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story. It’s possibly the most difficult literary device to use, since, if you calibrate it…
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Civilization VII is disappointing. To be clear, this doesn’t mean it’s not well-made, and I’ve enjoyed it enough, but it represents the most radical change for the series in perhaps its entire history, and as someone who has spent more than 1,000 hours in Civilization VI, not all of these…
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Hello Kitty Island Adventure is such a clever game in so many ways. Superficially, it looks like Animal Crossing, and will no doubt attract a similar audience for that reason. But it’s also a game that has an identity all of its own once you dig beyond the superficial, and…
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We see a lot of efforts to take history and build a video game out of it. This year alone we’ve already seen the newest chapter in the Dynasty Warriors series. Civilization VII is just around the corner. Ubisoft seems to be in all kinds of development hell with its…
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H2O Audio’s RIPT Lite earbuds promise a lot: Noise cancelling, sweat-proof earbuds designed for use while you’re exercising, at a very affordable price. You can naturally use them for any device that supports a Bluetooth connection, so after the gym session you can then zone out with your Nintendo Switch,…
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I never thought I’d be playing a Neptunia take on Mario Kart’s Battle Mode mixed with Katamari Damacy, but here we are. The latest oddball spinoff for the most oddball video game properties is Neptunia Riders Vs. Dogoos. It’s nuts. It’s also wonderful, and really good fun. The story, such…
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It’s not every day that you get to interview one of your heroes, but that was certainly the case when I got to run a quick Q & A with Hironobu Sakaguchi. For those that don’t recognise the name, Sakaguchi is the one who gave us many of the early…
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Love Too Easily ties hard, and I’ll give it props for tackling an enormously difficult genre for the video game medium: rom-coms are difficult in literature and cinema, and both of those mediums are far more nuanced for storytelling that extends beyond physical conflict. Unfortunately, Love Too Easily also highlights…
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