Review by Matt S. The long-forgotten and neglected Doom 64. The odd sheep in the family. The game that was basically dead on arrival on its initial release, because the Nintendo 64 was doing some fascinating things with the shooter genre even as Doom remained steadfastly traditional. It’s good that…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. Over the weekend, Bethesda dropped the first three Doom titles on Nintendo Switch, giving us all a rush of retro nostalgia. Although there are some small issues with the ports (most notably, that they require you to set up a Bethesda account, for games that…
Read MoreThere are thousands upon thousands of games that have been released over the years. Narrowing them down to a “top 100” was always going to be a challenge, but the whole DDNet team has come together to build a list of the 100 most canonical games that we feel all…
Read MoreWe have come to expect a lot from Bethesda, having delivered several of the best games of the last year (in this writer’s opinion) with Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, Elder Scrolls Online and Doom. So the bar was set pretty high leading up to the company’s second annual Showcase event at…
Read MoreWelcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Uploaded podcast! No special guest this week, so you’ll just have to listen to Alan and Matt rant and rave on about various topics. Mostly, though, Matt rants a bit about Doom, which is the last time Doom will be mentioned on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I really don’t like this new Doom. I realise that is shaping up to be a controversial statement, based on the other early impressions I’ve seen of the game, but I really wonder if I’m playing the same game as these people… or perhaps my expectations…
Read MoreWelcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Uploaded podcast! This week, we have special guest host, Luke Borrett, who joins us from Mediatonic. Borrett’s the guy that worked on localising for console the Hatoful Boyfriend visual novels… i.e. the infamous pigeon dating simulators. We also talk about Foul Play,…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Nope. I was going to leave it at that, because my disappointment in the marketing demo (sorry, beta) was crushing and complete, however expected it was. But in the interest of being a little more insightful, here’s a video of me playing the game quite poorly,…
Read MoreWhen Bethesda’s representative got up on stage at E3 this year, his big introduction were words to the effect of “are you ready for blood, guts, and blowing things up?” (I’m paraphrasing, but those were the precise three terms he used). Related reading: Our summary of the Bethesda conference. Now,…
Read MoreBetween the PS+ exclusive Halloween sale, Silent Hill, and Doom 3 BFG- there’s a fair bit of All Hallow’s flavor on the PSN this week. Lots of great stuff posted onto Sony’s online service this third week of October actually. As far as games go; we’ve got Doom 3 BFG…
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