Opinion by Matt S. I don’t understand why the largest print magazine out there, Game Informer, decided to frame a “question” about whether games should be political as a question. But that’s exactly what it’s done with Video Games Should Embrace Politics. The problem with this heading – and the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Yesterday the CEO of iGEA, Ron Curry, published an open letter to Senator Mitch Fifield, the Minister for Arts and Communications, and the person in the federal government that has ultimate responsibility for the videogames industry. Today, in senate estimates, Greens senator, Scott Ludlam, as the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of Australia’s major games industry bodies, iGEA, has published an open letter to Senator Mitch Fifield, the person who’s meant to be in charge of initiatives to support and grow the local game development industry. He is the Arts and Communications minister, after all, and…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Activision has lifted the wrapper off its latest flag waving opus to western (mostly American) ‘patriotism,’ military heroism and “values”; Call of Duty: WWII. And of course that announcement has dominated the media discussion in gaming since. Call of Duty is the big franchise out there,…
Read MoreGame Theory by Matt C. If you’ve ever played a Persona game, chances are you’ve spent a lot of time in some iteration of the Velvet Room. They play an important narrative role, being the place where each protagonist’s journey begins, and where you get to choose the name that…
Read MoreWelcome to this week’s DDNet Debate, where the whole DDNet team comes together to discuss something that we’re passionate about with games. This week we’ve decided to chat about the use of music in games; when it’s done well, music can turn a great game and make it exceptional, but…
Read MoreGame theory by Matt S. One of the core themes that runs through Persona 5 is the question of reality; or, more specifically, what is reality? It’s a topic that on the surface is quite straightforward: reality is what we see in front of us. I wake up in the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Over the last 24 hours, Microsoft, via Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry, released the tech specs of its upcoming Project Scorpio, the is-it-a-new-console-or-just-an-upgrade-to-the-Xbox-One that is similar in concept to Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro. The console’s tech specs are exceptional; there’s a detailed run-down of them over at PC…
Read MoreThe DDNet team is always up for a good debate, so we figured we’d start to record our various arguments and stick them up for your amusement and/or information! On a regular basis we’ll find a topic to discuss, and then we’ll sit down to chat about it. Then we’ll…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Persona 4 was a game that means more to me than I can really put into words. It was an utter masterpiece of storytelling, and a game that I continue to get more out of, the more I sit down and play it. It affected me…
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