Preview by Matt S. A highlight of Tokyo Game Show was the demo for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Mega39; a rhythm game in development for Nintendo Switch. Yeah, okay, that’s me being understated. I love Hatsune Miku so, so much, and finally getting to play with her on my Switch…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. This year is the fifth consecutive year that I’ve attended TGS, and it’s become something that I don’t even question – every year I am coming back to go to this event. I don’t come for the news, since not that much is actually announced at…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. It’s official: Nioh 2 will launch in early 2020. A follow-up to the rather successful (an understatement) and difficult (also an understatement) Nioh, the game will include vast amounts of Japanese myth, legend, and history. Developed by Team Ninja and published by Koei Tecmo, the game…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. So, here’s the shocking truth; Gal*Gun Double Peace, a game deemed so perverse that the New Zealand censorship board needed to ban it to protect the nation’s very morality, isn’t actually perverted at all. Related reading: Our review of Gal*Gun: Double Peace. It wasn’t intended on being…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. There’s a gulf in difference between some of Goichi Suda’s catalogue, such as Let It Die and Lollipop Chainsaw, and his first project upon forming Grasshopper Manufacture: The Silver Case. That game is a nightmarish, noirish, complex visual novel, largely free of the absurdity that is…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Ahead of me was a castle that needed capturing. A few battalions of my army’s soldiers were already trying to clamber up the walls using ladders, while leaders barked out orders and a battering ram made its way slowly to the castle gate. Rather than participate…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. The dungeon crawler genre has been around since the very foundations of the RPG. Most of us older people have fond memories of playing through the Wizardry and Might & Magic games of the ‘80s and ‘90s, and indeed the early dungeon crawlers featured prominently in…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. And that’s a wrap. Another year, another Tokyo Game Show. As per usual there was plenty of commentary on social media about how the lack of new game announcements made the show a “poor” one, but being there on the floor, I’ve got a very different…
Read MorePreviews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo was kind enough to provide me an all-access booth tour at TGS this year, so that I could test out all its upcoming games without waiting in line (and, frankly, that was important because I simply didn’t have thirty minutes to wait in line…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I’m actually too tired to do proper news articles on these announcements that were made today (lots more to share from here in Japan in the coming days, see), but I felt compelled to stick up these two trailers for DDNet readers, because both games have…
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