Video by Matt S. It’s that time of year again. The Game Awards are imminent, and that means we can all sit back and bask in the glow of “the game industry’s Academy Awards”… or can we? The Game Awards is a big issue for the ongoing artistic credibility of…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Serious Sam Collection brings together ports of the first, second, and third in the series, along with all the DLC. It’s a big package of wildly entertaining run-and-gun shooty times, and exactly the right kind of shooter for the Nintendo Switch platform. In this video, I…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. It comes out in December, but I’ve had the opportunity to get some hands-on time with the sequel to one of the most eclectic puzzlers we’ve ever seen. A cross-over game that combines Tetris and Puyo Puyo doesn’t sound like it should work, but incredibly it…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The PlayStation 5 is now upon us, and we’re having a great time with its launch titles and messing around with the new hardware. There is no doubt that it is a very fine console indeed. What is concerning, however, is Sony’s attitude towards Japanese games.…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. As a big-time fan of Koei Tecmo’s Warriors (Musou) series, I’ve been looking forward to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity ever since it was announced. Now, it’s a few short weeks away, and I’ve been playing it ahead of time to get my review ready. Here…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The latest Ubisoft open-world history epic is Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I know that this series has its detractors, but as the “western Dynasty Warriors” I can’t help but enjoy them. In this video, I take a look at the latest one (it’s spoiler-free, I promise). Assassin’s…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. The latest in SEGA’s beloved Yakuza series, Like A Dragon, is an excellent game indeed. But most people already knew that would be the case. What a lot of people are less aware of is that the entire series is also very heavily rooted in a…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Little Hope is Supermassive Games’ second in its Dark Pictures horror anthology. Released just in time for Halloween (of course), it’s a spooky couple of hours of classic horror fun, and if you enjoyed the developer’s previous efforts (Until Dawn or Man of Medan), then you’ll…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S.Trails of Cold Steel IV is finally out, and it’s a brilliant, breathtaking game. We’ll have a review up on DDNet once we can figure out how to write it without delving into spoilers, but the point is you should absolutely play it (though not unless you’ve…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a 2D platformer… but it’s also so much more than that. It’s a surprisingly complex rice-growing simulator, and that side of it is something of deep cultural value and meaning to the Japanese. With the preview embargo for the game…
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