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Review: Miitopia (Nintendo Switch)

May 24, 2021

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Review by Matt S. The best way to think of Miitopia is as a silly little playground, and that it’s a very personal playground. The experience that you’re having with it is only ever going to make sense to you. A friend or family member, should they walk into the…

Interesting games on itch.io: May 24

May 24, 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: May 24

May 24, 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…

The Week in Review: May 21, 2021

May 21, 2021

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Video by Matt S. This week in the week in review! Please Note: THERE ARE SOME MINOR SOUND/VOLUME ISSUES THIS WEEK. I’m using a new microphone, which will result in better sound in the future, but it’s a learning curve. It should still be very listenable, though. Apologies for the…

Review: Arcaea (Nintendo Switch)

May 21, 2021

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Review by Matt S. We’ve seen quite a few free-to-play mobile rhythm games be re-packaged up as premium experiences and released on Nintendo Switch. Deemo, Cytus, Voez, Musynx, Lanota, and probably some others that I’m missing. As a fan of the genre, I’ve enjoyed all of these, and I enjoy…

It’s happening! A new TimeSplitters!

May 20, 2021

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News by Matt S. The game that we’ve all been waiting for, and begging for, for years now is finally happening. Publisher Deep Silver is reforming Free Radical Design, the developer of the original TimeSplitters games, and Free Radical has been tasked with… making a new TimeSplitters! This isn’t just…

Mass Effect, Reapers and Philosophy: Just how evil are they, really?

May 20, 2021

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Video by Matt S. I don’t have time to review the full Mass Effect Trilogy remaster; that’s 100+ hours of gaming before I even start to write about it. However, I have always loved the series, and one of the main reasons is that I find the villains, the Reapers,…

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May 19, 2021

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News by Matt S. I’m not entirely sure how you could look at the classic tale of Pinocchio, then look at Dark Souls, and decide to combine them, but that’s what developer Round8 Studio has done, and that’s what we’re getting with Lies of P; a “dark reimagining of the…

Review: Rise Eterna (Nintendo Switch)

May 19, 2021

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Review by Matt S. I have a voracious appetite for tactics JRPGs. Especially if they look and feel like Fire Emblem. I’ve never forgotten just how much I fell in love with the first Fire Emblem to be released in English (the on the Game Boy Advance, and I swear…

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May 19, 2021

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Opinion by Harvard L. It’s hard to state the significance of Essays on Empathy (reviewed here) without at least mentioning the significance of Game Jams. More than half of the games in this collection were originally created for Ludum Dare, or other time-restrictive challenges. In a Game Jam, participants are…

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