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The Friday Ten: The ten best game prices

August 19, 2016

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List by Matt S. If you’ve been a game critic for as long as I have (and, without giving away ages because it’s quite embarrassing; I’d actually be well past my time for long service leave if I had been working for the one place all this time), one of…

Interview: On being Australia’s biggest game developer

August 19, 2016

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Interview by Matt S. Australia’s largest game developer is Melbourne’s Firemonkeys. The company was formed when Firemint, the developer behind the superb Flight Control, acquired Infinite Interactive (Puzzle Quest) and then merged with IronMonkey after EA required the two of them, which gave the game developer with its current name.…

Review: AdVenture Capitalist (Sony PlayStation 4)

August 18, 2016

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Review by Matt S. Ian Bogost surely didn’t think this was going to happen. Back in 2010, Bogost – an academic, game developer, and writer – reacted to the utter pointlessness of games like Farmville by developing Cow Clicker, which boiled these “casual” games down to their very core. You…

Libra of the Vampire Princess gets an English release, collector’s edition

August 18, 2016

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News by Lindsay M. Its Kickstarter was a success, so developer XERO and publisher MiKandi Japan have opened up preorders of Libra of the Vampire Princess in English. The crowdfunding campaign was actually so successful that it hit three if its stretch goals! Related reading: We were excited when Libra…

Review: Ant Queen (PC)

August 18, 2016

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Review by Jim S. A long time ago I rented SimAnt by Maxis on the Super Nintendo, and fell in love with it. I loved it so much that I begged my mom to buy me the PC version of the game, and she held out for a long time…

The Goichi Suda chronicles: On Lollipop Chainsaw

August 18, 2016

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Feature by Matt S. Goichi Suda is a bit of a hero to many on the DDNet team. His unwavering commitment to games that are transgressive and creative, even to the detriment of their critical rating, is noble, and the fact he’s managed to build up a major Japanese development…

Review: Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2 (Sony PlayStation 4)

August 17, 2016

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Review by Brad L. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance was the catalyst for my sudden interest in Marvel Comics. I’d dabbled with both Spider-Man and the X-Men through their respective 90s animated series and played Arcade’s Revenge on the Super Nintendo. I’d also seen the Spider-Man movies and while this started my…

Short ‘n Sweet Reviews: Stickman Super Athletics, Power Disc Slam, Little King’s Story, Ambition of the Slimes, Frederic: Resurrection of Music

August 17, 2016

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Reviews by Matt S Welcome to this week’s short ‘n sweet reviews, where we look at a number of games that we have been playing that we just haven’t got the time to do give full reviews to. These aren’t necessarily bad games – not at all! But rather they…

Devolver Digital and the Serious Sam guys announce a new survival game, SCUM

August 17, 2016

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News by Matt S. Here’s a game production trio worthy of notice: popular grindhouse publisher, Devolver Digital has partnered with the team behind The Talos Principle and Serious Sam (Croteam), and developer, Gamepires, to announce a new survival game, SCUM. SCUM looks set to be a commentary around the bloodthirsty…

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August 17, 2016

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Review by Matt S. I still play Nethack to this day. When I was younger I played Nethack because it was free and I was happy to have a game of the sheer complexity that it offered for free, even if it meant I needed to put up with ASCII…

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