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DDNet in Japan 2016 #4: How to escape Tokyo for the weekend; visit Hakone

September 9, 2016

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Tourism by Matt S. To the Japanese, Hakone is something of a retreat from the bustling city life of Tokyo, and as such it is an absolutely essential trip to take for a very different kind of Japanese experience. Last year I did a drive through of Hakone just to…

Review: Verdun (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 8, 2016

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Review by Harvard L. Take a time to imagine when the First Person Shooter genre weren’t the titanic please-everybody genre that it is today, and it might be easier to visualise how Verdun fits into the grand scheme of things. A hardcore World War One trench based shooter; Verdun racked…

The 100 canonical games: 70-61

September 8, 2016

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There are thousands upon thousands of games that have been released over the years. Narrowing them down to a “top 100” was always going to be a challenge, but the whole DDNet team has come together to build a list of the 100 most canonical games that we feel all…

hey-guys-hatsune-miku-future-tone-is

September 8, 2016

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News by Matt S. My favourite game of all time is about to get even better. On the 15th of this month, SEGA is releasing a DLC pack for Hatsune Miku: Future Tone. Related reading: Matt’s 4,500-word review of Future Tone. No, that word count is not a typo. If…

Koei Tecmo has announced another Samurai Warriors game and it’s different

September 8, 2016

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News by Matt S. In this week’s issue of Famitsu (buying this thing is one of my most understated joys in Japan) there was a double page spread highlighting a new Samurai Warriors (Sengoku Musou) title by Koei Tecmo. But rather than being Samurai Warriors 5, this is a whole…

I got a press release from PETA and it was surreal

September 8, 2016

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News by Matt S. Okay so I’m on holiday in Japan so I really can’t be bothered writing about most press released, but this was was just too flipping surreal to ignore. PETA, the delightfully militant animal welfare advocacy group, has issued a statement that GIANTS, the developer behind the…

DDNet in Japan 2016 #3: We need to have a serious discussion about Japanese pastries.

September 8, 2016

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Tourism by Matt S. One of the comments that I get frequently from people about Japan comes when I tell them that I can’t eat seafood. “But how do you survive?” they ask, or something along the lines of “but aren’t you missing out on the best food that Japan…

All-female protagonist September: The female physique and apparel.

September 8, 2016

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Opinion by Lindsay M. In my last entry for this month-long excursion I questioned why most women in games have the same body type time and time again. What I boiled it down to is that — at least in my mind — this is because the bulk of the…

Review: Inside (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 7, 2016

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Review by Matt C. There’s a lot of value to be found in games that abandon a typical approach to storytelling in favour of something more abstract and esoteric, and this is something there’s been a welcome surge of in recent times. At the same time, the linear, overt narrative…

The 100 canonical games: 80-71

September 7, 2016

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