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Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle: Why I love this Nintendo Switch CCG

July 13, 2021

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Video by Matt S. The upcoming Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle is very, very good. I hadn’t touched Shadowverse, as I refuse to play CCGs on mobile on principle, but here we have a premium take, designed for consoles, and *that* I will play. On my first impressions, I absolutely love this…

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July 13, 2021

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News by Matt S. After many years, the iconic arcade racing series, Cruis’n, is going to return with Cruis’n Blast on Nintendo Switch. This series was once the property of Midway, but Midway’s no longer around. The license has been picked up by Raw Thrills, with a physical edition to…

Review: The Silver Case 2425 (Nintendo Switch)

July 12, 2021

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Review by Matt S. “The people in noir fiction are dark and doomed—they are losers, they are pessimistic, they are hopeless. If you have a private eye, the private eye is a hero; and he’s going to solve the crime and the bad guy will be caught. That’s a happy…

Interesting games on itch.io: July 12

July 12, 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…

Catch up with last week’s gameplay streams: July 12

July 12, 2021

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News by Matt S. As some of you will know, we’ve been doing regular streams over the last year or so on the DDNet YouTube channel, showcasing the latest and greatest games, while chatting with people about those games (and just about everything else) as we go along. If you’d…

Win the brilliant EPOS B20, courtesy of EPOS and DDNet

July 9, 2021

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Competition by Matt S. Are you in the need of a new microphone? Perhaps you’re into streaming or making videos for YouTube? As we reviewed last month, EPOS has produced a brilliant microphone in the EPOS B20 streaming microphone, and now, courtesy of EPOS, we have one to give away.…

Review: Boomerang X (Nintendo Switch)

July 9, 2021

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Review by Harvard L. From its beginning, Boomerang X seems like it’d be a pretty unassuming game – the player washes up on a beach, comically tosses away a survival knife, and finds a four-bladed weapon (it looks more like a shuriken, but the game’s called Boomerang X so we’ll…

Here’s what to expect from this month’s Dee Dee Zine!

July 8, 2021

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News by Matt S. It’s getting close to the middle of the month, and you know what that means… it’s Dee Dee Zine time! This month’s magazine is another 48-page special, filled with games, as well as pieces on Japanese culture, art, and more. Some of the features of the…

Review: Heart of the Woods (Nintendo Switch)

July 8, 2021

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Review by Matt S. To be right up-front here – Heart of the Woods is fine on Nintendo Switch, but if you want the proper experience you’re going to want to play the PC version, where there’s an R18+ patch and the sex scenes are really, really good. You don’t…

Utawarerumono Zan 2 is looking really nice

July 8, 2021

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News by Matt S. Utawarerumono Zan 2 is coming out in Japan on PlayStation 4 and 5 soon – July 22. We don’t have an announcement of a western release as yet, but NISA did bring us the first one and, as we wrote in our review, it was actually…

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