Opinion by Jedediah H. Like how a brooding, reverent vampire has a preference for a particular blood type (as well as the shape and heft of the chalice from which she sips it), gamers, when forced to choose, have strict preferences regarding the strength of particular components that make up…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Today I was shopping at my local EB Games store, and the customer in front of me was a grandfather, who was obviously buying a game for his grandson, who was standing with him at the counter, and was at most 14 years old. The game…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. UPDATE: It looks like the outcry has succeeded in getting the IeSF to completely reverse its decision. Good on the organisation for realising that it screwed up, we say. E-Sports is a new concept. Thanks to the success of games like Starcraft, League of Legends, Street…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Here’s a fascinating little fact I’ve come across; according to data from Newzoo, North America is no longer the biggest market for games. The USA is still the largest single market for games, reporting $20.5 billion in revenue from games, but looking at game revenue from…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Game Theory is a regular column in which I take the opportunity to take a truly great game, and discuss some of its more philosophical underpinnings which are, to my mind, what truly separates these games from their peers. This week we’re talking about the likes…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It wouldn’t be an E3 without controversy. This year that controversy is a statement that an Ubisoft spokesman made to the effect of “there are no playable female assassins in Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s multiplayer component because animating women is too much work.” I actually wasn’t going…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. With all the hype from the E3 2014 shows of Sony, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft starting to die down, I’ve spent the rest of the day (here in Australia) processing all that I just saw. Valiant Hearts is clearly the most emotionally loaded game that we…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. So we’ve just concluded all of the major conferences for the E3 show, not including Nintendo’s video feed for tomorrow morning. This means that we essentially know all of the big blockbuster games for the year, and we know precisely what each of the major players…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so every so often we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste…
Read MoreOpinion by Shaan J. It’s that time of year again; the industry gets together to show off the big games and technologies that we’ll be playing in the year ahead. E3 2014 will no doubt be a big show, but what are the DDNet staff looking forward to? This week…
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