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Review: The Game of Life 2 (Nintendo Switch)

April 14, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Look, I know The Game Of Life is just a board game and so on and so forth, but in some ways it makes me genuinely uncomfortable. The way it abstracts a person’s progress through life is very much about upholding and celebrating the status quo,…

what-loop-hero-can-teach-us-about

April 13, 2021

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Article by Harvard L. If you’re a fan of RPGs, you probably enjoy a fair bit of repetition. Hopefully, that’s not a controversial statement, but if you’re inclined to disagree, I have a simple experiment for you. Load up a copy of Dragon Quest (the original) and start a new…

Reviews: Catching up with Nintendo Switch visual novels

April 13, 2021

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Reviews by Matt S. The Nintendo Switch has become a home for the visual noveLl, with more being released on the console than is easy to keep up with. It is a favourite genre of mine, though, so I thought I’d do some quick summary reviews of some of the…

The games industry’s hostility to short games is a damning indictment of gaming

April 13, 2021

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Opinion by Matt S. I’ve touched on this topic often enough in the past, but I saw a tweet this morning from a game developer that annoyed me enough that I felt like it was worth re-iterating on here, because it speaks to a common attitude towards games that are…

Review: Clea 2 (Nintendo Switch)

April 12, 2021

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Review by Matt S. It’s refreshing to see a developer turn things around like this. The original Clea was a noble idea and effort, but struggled in execution. Clea 2 takes the same basic idea that powered the original, but finds interesting ways to iterate and build on it, and…

Interesting games on itch.io: April 12

April 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: April 12

April 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…

We have a release date for that The World Ends With You sequel

April 9, 2021

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News by Matt S. It’s the sequel that no one thought would happen, but it is so tantalisingly close now. NEO: The World Ends With You will land on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on July 27, and then PC (via Epic Games Store) at a later date in “Summer”…

The Week in Review: April 9, 2021

April 9, 2021

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Video by Matt S. This week in the week in review! 1) E3 is a digital-only event in 2021. What to expect! https://www.gematsu.com/2021/04/digital-only-e3-2021-set-for-june-12-to-15 2) Should Sony, Microsoft and Valve refuse to release that Fallujah game on their platforms? https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status/1380111828034945024 3) The Blue Reflection anime is here! What joy! https://myanimelist.net/anime/47639/Blue_Reflection_Ray 4)…

Review: Delicious! Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire (Nintendo Switch)

April 8, 2021

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Review by Matt S. I’ve been playing Mahjong Solitaire for almost as long as I’ve been playing video games. My very first console (the Game Boy) was a Christmas gift from my parents and it came with the pack-in Tetris, and in addition they gave me Super Mario Land and…

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