Review by Moshe R. The magical mystery tour is here, finally, and it took me away. At least that’s The Beatles inspired feeling I experienced as I started playing Vignettes on my iPad, with its very Warhol choice of colour palettes, atmospheric music and minimalistic presentation. As well as it…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I have served the city of Freeburg for decades, but I am being forced out in six months time. I have no retirement plan; my focus has always been on making sure this city runs as smoothly as possible. I am Jack Boyd. And I am…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. You’d probably think me crazy if I told you that you are, in the most literal sense possible, the chair you’re sitting on and the house in which you reside. If I told you that you are Donald Trump, you’d probably punch me (and be justified…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The opening line of dialogue in NieR: Automata could have been pulled directly from Nietzsche or Kierkegaard, if those men were militant androids about to go to war with an army of genocidal robots. Related reading: On why NieR: Automata’s predecessor was the best game of…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. The first demo of NieR: Automata released to the public was a mere teaser, far more interested in showing off the gameplay than much of the narrative. The fact that the gameplay, with the help of PlatinumGames, is so good had me making the (admittedly huge)…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. Imagine you’re walking down the sidewalk and find a phone, face-down in some tall grass next to a sidewalk. It’s nighttime but luckily you’re in a well-lit area of your town — otherwise you would have missed it altogether, or possibly stepped on it. You pick…
Read MoreReview by Nicktatorship. The Flame in the Flood draws on the quintessentially American story of a life lived along a river, echoing a theme often found in the great American works of literature, film, music, and history. More than that, it explores the moments of being that exist in the…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Nubla is a game that is not only an artistic piece in its own right, it is a game specifically about art. The art from the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, to be precise. A title developed as part of the PlayStation Talents program in Spain, Nubla…
Read MoreWelcome to the DDNet Awards, our annual celebration of the best and brightest games that we’ve been playing throughout the year. It has been a really good year for games in 2016, with great examples of every genre popping up through the year. Across 15 categories over the next three…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Last week we got to enjoy Final Fantasy XV; a game that we had been waiting a full ten years for. This week we have Sony’s own The Last Guardian. Another game that we have been waiting for for years (to the point where many thought…
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