EA got the E3 ball rolling this year with a series of trailers and announcements dedicated chiefly to its AAA franchises. You know – Star Wars, Mass Effect, Battlefield, and Titanfall. There was one quainter game announcement in the mix, however, it turned out to be among the show’s most impressive.…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Nintendo has announced the launch date of its Wii U successor (and, we suspect, a home console that also has a portable element and is therefore successor to the 3DS). The NX will release in March 2017, as we were told at an investor’s briefing today.…
Read MoreSony has released an extended version of the E3 footage from Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Previously only seen by a select few behind closed doors at last month’s E3 Conference, now everyone can experience it (and even in full 1080p glory!): Uncharted 4 is the first game in the…
Read MoreThis is our last E3 article for the year, but it wouldn’t be right if we didn’t pick some “winners” of the show. And so, what better excuse to pick some winners than the Friday Ten list? It was a really great show, I think everyone can agree with that…
Read MoreA handheld Steam machine. Sounds pretty awesome, right? Well, there’s one startup hardware manufacturer that is looking to realise the dream, and has released the official specs for its device, the SMACH Zero. They are as follows: – AMD embedded G-Series SoC “Steppe Eagle” with Jaguar-based CPU and GCN-based Radeon…
Read MoreAll the major presentations and reveals from this year’s E3 have wrapped up, and while the show itself will go on for a while yet with media getting hands-on time with the various games, that’s it for the show for those of us watching from the sidelines. (Don’t worry, we’ll…
Read MoreJ-stars Victory Vs+ is a game that we didn’t really think would make its way out west, because it involves characters from a lot of different anime and manga licenses, and in the west this means that a lot of different rights holders needed to sign off on it. And…
Read MoreWe’ve covered Persona 4: Dancing All Night a couple of times in the past at DDNet, but Atlus brought a new trailer along to E3 and, well, we couldn’t resist having a watch. The game has just released in Japan, and has has been met with some positive early responses…
Read MoreIt’s been a while since we has a good theme park simulator. Both Theme Park and Rollercoaster Tycoon have been poorly managed by their respective owners, and so fans of those classic franchises have been left waiting for a new developer to pick up the baton. It looks like Frontier…
Read MoreSometimes Nintendo absolutely baffles me. Its treatment of Fatal Frame is one example. It part owns the franchise, and has proceeded to decide that westerners are just not interested in it. Despite the fact that yes, we actually do like horror games out this way. Even cerebral ones like Fatal…
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