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Review: Pretty Girls Panic! (Nintendo Switch)

September 1, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Pretty Girls Panic! by Zoo Corporation is basically the same game as Bishoujo Battle Cyber Panic!, a previous title that it (via publisher EastAsiaSoft) has already released on the Nintendo Switch. It is, basically, Qix, but rather than clearing blank or generic backgrounds, you’re instead revealing…

“Gamers want AAA” – This is a lie

September 1, 2021

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Video by Matt S. There’s an insidious little myth out there that suggests that “gamers” want what the AAA industry churns out. It’s used to justify just about everything the AAA industry does. If it were true there wouldn’t be so many examples of games selling multiple millions of copies…

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August 31, 2021

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News by Matt S. Okay, it might not be the full new Hatsune Miku console rhythm game experience I so desperately want (or even the Hatsune Miku dating simulator that I keep emailing SEGA about – they ignore me now and I don’t know why), but there is a new…

Review: Kitaria Fables (Nintendo Switch)

August 31, 2021

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Review by Matt S. On its surface, you would never suspect that Rune Factory world work. Taking the tranquility of Harvest Moon and mashing it together with the inherent violence of RPGs seems counter-intuitive, and yet the developers of Rune Factory and various associated homages and pastiches have somehow refined…

Games I’m still playing a decade later: Game Dev Story

August 31, 2021

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Retro by Matt S. As gaming journalists, we get so fixated on the new big things that we often play games that we like at the time, rate them highly, put them down, and never really come back to them. That’s not to say these games are bad by any…

Stand-alone expansion for deeply under-appreciated Shadow Tactics gets new trailer

August 31, 2021

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News by Matt S. Shadow Tactics (by the same developer that produced last year’s Desperados III) is a deeply underrated game. We’re part of the problem here at DDNet. After all, we didn’t cover it on its release. But perhaps we’ll get a chance to make amends, because Shadow Tactics:…

Kitaria Fables: It’s like Rune Factory with cats! I love it!

August 31, 2021

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Video by Matt S. Kitaria Fables is such a delightful little game. Utterly charming and inoffensive, this Rune Factory-like RPG has plenty of sword-swinging questing… but you also get plenty of time to kick back and just enjoy the gardening, as you slowly farm up a huge arrangement of delightful…

September 2021 Podcast: Where we love and remember the PlayStation 2

August 30, 2021

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Welcome to the September podcast! The PlayStation 2 is one of the greatest consoles of all time, and its contribution to gaming should be remembered. We’ve been in a nostalgic mood in recent months, so we decided to bust out our favourite PlayStation 2 games to talk about the console…

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August 30, 2021

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Review by Matt S. One of the first things that I realised when I started playing Nostalgic Train was that I haven’t actually played any Japanese “walking simulators” before. Not that I can remember having played, at any rate. It’s a genre that seems to have either spoken to western…

Interesting games on itch.io: August 30

August 30, 2021

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List by Matt S. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows…

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