Whoo! The podcast recording technology worked this week, the technical demons have been squashed, and we’re back after a week’s forced hiatus! Because the DDNet awards cycle runs from December to November, we’re actually six months in to the “year” this month, so we thought we’d look back at the…
Read MoreHi everyone, Just a quick note with a bit of unfortunate news (it’s shaping up to be one of those weeks…), the DDNet podcast unfortunately hit some snags in recording last week. By which I mean it didn’t work at all. Despite chaining Alan to his desk for the past…
Read MoreTekken 7 is just around the corner, and DDNet’s Matt was privileged to be able to sit down with the producer of Tekken, Katsuhiro Harada, to talk about the new game, some of the design philosophies that the team has taken, and their wonderful approach to diversity in the cast.…
Read MoreWe can’t stop talking about Person 5, it seems. This past week, there’s been a lot of criticism over the game’s localisation, so the DDNet team decided to discuss that this week, and more generally how localisation should work, versus how people think it does. We also have a good…
Read MoreNintendo held another of its Nintendo Direct web shows, which was mostly there to show off what’s coming up for the Nintendo Switch. So, naturally, we had a chat about that this week. We have been really pleasantly surprised by the Switch so far, and we chat about how Nintendo…
Read MoreNote: Apologies for this in advance, but Matt had some issues with his microphone when recording the podcast. As a result, there’s a little bit of cutting in and out. It shouldn’t be enough to stop you enjoying the ‘cast though, so please do kick back and enjoy! This week…
Read MoreMass Effect: Andromeda is a conflicting game, and our own feelings on the game are mixed; parts we love, and other parts we do not. As we start to play the game, we sit down to have an early impressions chat. We also talk about portable gaming, and specifically what…
Read MoreThis week on the DigitallyDownloaded.net podcast, we look at the latest game to have fallen victim to Australian censorship, Outlast 2. Then we look at eroticism in film, as the Korean film The Handmaiden, makes a big splash in arthouse cinema circles, and how that approach to filmmaking might apply…
Read MoreUbisoft’s latest Tom Clancy game launched recently, and a couple of the DDNet team have been struggling through it. On some levels we enjoy, even appreciate the game, but on other levels… well, it’s best you listen to the podcast. We also have a good chat about getting into games…
Read MoreNieR: Automata is here! A game that we never thought would actually get made after the original bombed so badly, NieR: Automata is everything that we could actually want from a game, and then some. It’s a work of pure genius. This week we have a good chat about NieR,…
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