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July 3, 2019

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News by Matt S. If you’ve never played an A-Train title previously, you’ve really been missing out. Artdink’s simulation series is a brilliant look into the positive impact that public transport can have on an area, and while you’re only responsible for creating a public transport network in a city,…

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade – Nintendo’s most important JRPG

July 3, 2019

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Retro reflections by Matt S. With Fire Emblem: Three Houses releasing this month, and marking the first “proper” Fire Emblem to land on Nintendo Switch, I’ve been going back over my time with the series, and replaying the first Fire Emblem to be formally localised and released into English. Fire…

Idea Factory is bringing us more Death end re;Quest

July 2, 2019

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News by Matt S. Never one to let a good opportunity go to waste, Idea Factory has apparently been spurred on by the success of the original Death end re;Quest. As we noted in our own review, it is one of the most mature and intelligent games that the publisher…

The games of July! Also our favourite fighting games ever (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #22)

July 2, 2019

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We’re now halfway through the year! Tired yet? Well, you’re going to get a whole lot more tired soon, because there’s a lot to play this coming month! We also have a good ol’ chat about our favourite fighting games of all time (and why), and we discuss two of…

Damnit, the new Utawarerumono game is a F2P mobile title…

July 2, 2019

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News by Matt S. Thank Miku there was that new Miku game announcement earlier today, to make up for the crushing disappointment that the new Utawarerumono game that was announced a week ago has turned out to be a free-to-play mobile game, which has the full name: Utawarerumono: Lost Flag.…

Review: Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered (Nintendo Switch)

July 2, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Red Faction: Guerrilla was a major hit for THQ (as in, the original THQ prior to bankruptcy, not the Nordic Games-renamed THQ Nordic). It soared well over the million units threshold, and was a critical darling too; on Metacritic the aggregate score for PS3 and Xbox…

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July 1, 2019

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News by Matt S. When it rains, it pours, as the old saying goes. Hot on the heels of Square Enix dumping its entire Final Fantasy library on multiple streaming services (though apparently not Apple Music in Australia, despite being promised that it would be), now Love Live! is in…

Hatsune Miku is back, baby! And she is GORGEOUS on Switch

July 1, 2019

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News by Matt S. I woke up this morning and, as I usually do, checked in to see what was going on on Twitter. I see a flood of comments. “Oh no”, I think to myself. “What corner of the Internet have I offended this time?” Reading through, though, I…

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July 1, 2019

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Article by Matt S. NHK World isn’t anything new, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually written about it on DDNet in the past. As it’s something I watch religiously – more than I even watch Netflix, let alone free-to-air TV – I figured that I should remedy that. So…

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July 1, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Shogi – often referred to as “Japanese Chess” – is an irritatingly obtuse game to learn how to play. Especially for those who don’t speak Japanese. With Chess, abstract as it is, pieces are designed to be visually familiar – once you’re told that the king…

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