List by Matt S. It has been a really good week for visual novels, with both Chaos;Child and Bad Apple Wars launching in the one week. Indeed, it’s been a really good couple of years for the genre, as localisation outfits have come to realise that there is a market…
Read MoreList by Matt S. It’s Hatsune Miku’s birthday in six days! The world’s greatest virtual idol and superstar was first unleashed on the world by Crypton on August 31 ten years ago now, and she hasn’t looked back. As everyone that follows DDNet knows, I’m more than a little enamoured…
Read MoreList by Matt S. In just a few weeks Warriors All-Stars releases in the west. Koei Tecmo’s latest brawler is doing something very special; it’s pulling characters in from all the various Koei Tecmo franchises, making a game not unlike Smash Bros. in appeal; it’s a fanservice character mashup designed…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Since getting my arcade machine cocktail cabinet, I’ve been spending a lot of time playing old games from yesteryear, be that arcade games, or old classics on NES, Mega Drive, and so on. In doing so I’ve been reminded of so many really wonderful games and…
Read MoreList by Matt S. One of the most underrated jobs in the entire videogame industry is the role of the character and concept artists. These people are often the first visualisation of a game, before the mechanics have been refined and, often, before the story is even halfway baked. I…
Read MoreList by Matt S. There was one of the semi-frequent Internet blow-ups late last week/ early this week, when a games journalist decided to write a review in which he states that fans of a certain game are perverts and perverse. Naturally that didn’t go down so well with aforementioned…
Read MoreList by Matt S. I’ve got to say that 2017 has been one of the finest years for gaming that we’ve ever seen. NieR: Automata, Yakuza 0, Persona 5, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, God Wars, and a host of others have kept us incredibly busy in the…
Read MoreList by Matt S. I know that my taste in games can be somewhat different to what people in the “mainstream” like to play. And I’m quite comfortable with that. I can only be me, and I would find life quite boring if I agreed with the mainstream on everything.…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Every year, E3 is a huge event where we see an awful lot of new stuff from the big blockbuster publishers. But it’s hard for smaller developers and publishers to catch the attention of the media when they’re busy covering Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty…
Read MoreList by Matt S. E3 is right around the corner, folks! That is of course exciting news; it means we’ll be finding out about all the big games that we’ll be playing over the next couple of years. Games near completion will be given the full hands-on treatment by everyone…
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