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Atelier Firis western release date announced! God we love Firis!

December 21, 2016

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News by Britta S. Koei Tecmo has announced the launch of Atelier Firis: the Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey to our humble English-speaking world. The game will release physically and digitally for PlayStation 4, digitally for PS Vita, and for PC via Steam on 7 March in North America and…

Review: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (Sony PlayStation 4)

December 21, 2016

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Review by Matt S. Upfront and from the start, it is so very, very cool that Shantae is finally in high definition. This series, which started out with a humble Game Boy Color game that had low circulation and received even less attention from both the mainstream and the typical…

The 24 games of Christmas! Game #21: Lost Odyssey

December 20, 2016

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Ho, ho, ho, and Merry Christmas! Christmas is a wonderful time of year. If you’re in the north then you get to enjoy snow, hot drinks, the wonderful colours of decorations and the smell of a freshly-cut Christmas tree. If you’re south of the equator, it means blistering hot weather,…

This week on the Digitally Uploaded podcast: Goichi Suda and fanservice

December 20, 2016

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This week on the podcast we talk about a couple of topics near and dear to our hearts. The first in Goichi Suda, one of the true gaming artists. Transgressive, progressive, and punkish, Suda-san’s games are always distinctive and unique, and he is one of the reasons that we continue…

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December 20, 2016

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Review by Harvard L. Feist is, bear with me on this one, a near perfect adaptation of Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. For those not familiar with the movie, Apocalypto is set in ancient Maya, where one individual engages on an epic chase scene with an entire army on his tail for…

The DDNet Awards! Xbox One Game of the Year

December 20, 2016

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Welcome to the DDNet Awards, our annual celebration of the best and brightest games that we’ve been playing throughout the year. It has been a really good year for games in 2016, with great examples of every genre popping up through the year. Across 15 categories over the next three…

The 24 games of Christmas! Game #20: Wild ARMs 3

December 19, 2016

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DLC Review: Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live Third Stage (Sony PlayStation VR)

December 19, 2016

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Review by Matt S. And so, just like that, the final “chapter” of Miku’s first VR outing draws to a conclusion. It’s too soon, and I want too much more, but the third stage for Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live is a superb conclusion to my favourite VR experience to…

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December 19, 2016

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Review by Matt C. Car combat games have never really been a dominant genre, but if they ever had a heyday, it was the 64-bit era. The genre goes back a lot farther than that – Taito released Crashing Race in 1976 – but the latter half of the ‘90s…

The DDNet Awards! PC Game of the Year

December 19, 2016

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