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April 4, 2018

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Review by Matt S. There’s something about Unholy Heights that convinces me to keep buying it. I have it on Nintendo 3DS, then I bought it on PlayStation 4, and now Nintendo Switch. So there’s clearly something about it. It might be something as simple as the combination of comfortable…

Review: The Charming Empire (Nintendo Switch)

April 4, 2018

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Review by Matt S. The Taishō era was one of the most politically and socially dynamic periods in Japan’s very long history. It’s also one of the shortest, having lasted between just 1912 and 1926. Immediately following the chaotic Meiji period, where Japan was forcibly opened up to the world…

Can we please get a localisation of this horror visual novel?

April 4, 2018

Death Mark/Experience Inc/News/Nintendo Switch/visual novel

News by Matt S. Death Mark is a game that released in June 2017 for PlayStation Vita, and then in January on PlayStation 4. It’s now due for a release on Nintendo Switch soon (June 28, to be precise), and, as far as unlocalised games go, this one is right…

Review: Minit (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 3, 2018

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Review by Brad L. Normally games that have the main character die over and over again cause me some immense frustration. The sense or repetition can almost drive me up the wall. But then I played Minit. Never in my life did I think a game that makes dying over…

On the brilliance of the new wave of surrealist, avant-garde, “anti-game arthouse” game experiences

April 3, 2018

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Feature by Matt S. Antonin Artaud’s play, Jet Of Blood (sometimes translated from its native French as “Spurt Of Blood”) opens as follows: YOUNG MAN: I love you and everything is beautiful. YOUNG GIRL: [With quavering voice] You love me and everything is beautiful. YOUNG MAN: [In a lower tone]…

Fighting games and DLC, co-op gaming and more! (Digitally Uploaded 2018, Episode #12)

April 3, 2018

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This week on the DDNet podcast, we chat about DLC and fighting games – with it looking more and more like the genre is heading towards F2P and expanding rosters via DLC, what are our tolerance thresholds for these things. Then we chat about that old chestnut – violence and…

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April 3, 2018

Art Game/Horror/Indie/InnerFriend/News/psychological horror

News by Matt S. I like my horror smart. Good horror shouldn’t just be about mindless killing – it should weave psychological stories, tales of morality, address social themes. Even within the slasher or monster horror genre, there’s a vast difference between those that have some kind of intelligent basis…

The Aussie-made game about Arabian fantasy lands on console on May 4

April 3, 2018

1001 Arabian Nights/Australia/City of Brass/News/release date/Release Dates/Uppercut Games

News by Matt S. City of Brass is a roguelite FPS – i.e. it’s similar to games like Immortal Redneck or Ziggurat in that it features random level design and players venture deeper and deeper until they’re finally defeated, at which point they start from scratch all over again. What…

Review: Warp Shift (Nintendo Switch)

April 2, 2018

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Review by Harvard L. I think it must just be something about the latter half of this decade – we’re experiencing a revival of well-designed puzzle games. Whereas in the early 2000’s, puzzle games found it difficult to maintain its market share due to increasing budget sizes and a move…

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April 2, 2018

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Video by Matt S. In my ongoing tests of streaming, I did a 30 minute stream of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, to which I invited some people, so I could try out streaming in a “live” environment. Related reading: Our review of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 You can…

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