News by Matt S. I’m going to be a little indulgent here, and use this here website platform that we’ve got to promote a game that we’ve released. That’s right, DDNet is now a game developer and publisher, and our first game is out there in the wild. My Time…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. ACE Team has been busy. Having just announced The Eternal Cylinder, the Chilean developer has now also announced Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break. The big hook in this one, over and above the brilliance of the previous titles, is that in Make & Break…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With Saya no Uta – The Song of Saya in English – now available over Steam, I’ve got an excuse to review what is quite an old game. And write about it. There’s so much I can write about. In terms of narrative technique, the way…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Death Mark was everything that I like to see in my horror. Chilling, disturbing, and also at times sensuous, even erotic, the game perfectly encapsulated that contrasting and at time complimentary mix of horror and sexuality that should be there, but often isn’t in video games.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. SEGA recently announced Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz HD for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. It’s an enhanced port of the Wii original (showing how long it has been since we last had a Monkey Ball to play), and while that game was…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Grandia and its sequel are beloved JRPGs within the fan base that have never quite got the attention that they deserve among the broader community. Perhaps the Grandia HD Collection will help, when it lands on August 16 on Nintendo Switch. There will also be a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. While virtually everyone who has an interest in tactics JRPGs is still knee-deep in Fire Emblem, there was another tactics RPG that has been released over the last week that’s well worth a look. Forged of Blood comes to us from an Indonesian independent team, and…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It has been a big year for Kart racing. Crash, Sonic, and a Mario Kart on mobile devices… so it’s perhaps not surprising that there would be a new Garfield Kart announced, as the previous one managed to be a decent entry among the B-tier of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It might be one of Koei Tecmo’s more niche properties, but Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a long running, well-respected series, and each one is one of the finer examples of the grand strategy genre. Based on the book of the same name, this series…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. A week ago the American Justice Department decided that it would be reinstating the federal use of capital punishment (the death penalty). While the majority of American states have never stopped using the death penalty, at a federal level that particular legal punishment had been dormant…
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