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Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X is indeed coming in English

April 1, 2016

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News by Matt S. Fall 2016 release in North America. No word yet of a European release (yet), but PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions confirmed. That’s it. That’s all I need to say. Best news all year. SEGA’s doing right by our girl. – Matt S. Miku Fan To The…

Review: TrackMania Turbo (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 1, 2016

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Review by Brad L. TrackMania is a series that made its name on PC and Nintendo consoles in the mid-2000s, without any such release on a Sony or Microsoft console for over ten years. After nine games in the series, that trend has finally been bucked with the release of…

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March 31, 2016

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Article by Sam M. Would you like to order FINAL FANTASY XV? That’s what you’re prompted to do once completing the Final Fantasy XV Platinum Demo, and it’s the general feeling from the Unearthed presentation that occurred earlier today. Square Enix has realised that people are going to spend big…

Review: Trillion: God of Destruction (Sony PlayStation Vita)

March 31, 2016

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Review by Matt S. They often say that some of the most experimental and interesting content comes to game consoles at the start, and end, of their life spans. With the PlayStation Vita in its twilight, that idea is certainly holding true, because Trillion: God of Destruction is one incredibly…

Review: Kingdom Wars 2: Battles (PC)

March 31, 2016

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Review by Nick H. Despite not having heard of the Kingdom Wars series before, I came away pleasantly pleased with what the title had to offer. It is a unit-based real-time strategy game in the vein of Total War that does most things rather well. And, while it starts out…

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March 30, 2016

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Interview by Hamza A. One of the true cult classics in the horror genre is Pathologic, a game about surviving in a plague-ridden, quarantined town, by Russian developer, Ice-Pick Lodge. Though the original game back in 2005 was something of a cult hit, rather than a best-selling masterpiece, the game…

Play-Asia review: Dead or Alive Xtreme 3

March 30, 2016

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A copy of this game was provided to us for review from Play-Asia. If you are interested in the game, please consider purchasing it from Play-Asia, and support DDNet in the process. Thank you! Review by Matt S. I kid you not, but after playing Dead or Alive Xtreme 3…

Review: Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf Console Edition (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 30, 2016

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Review by Matt S. I was not the biggest fan of Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf when it originally landed on the iPad back in 2013. As I was playing it, I was constantly reminded that the game was messing with my nostalgia for the classic gamebooks that I would play…

Digitally Downloaded podcast: It’s all about the narrative!

March 29, 2016

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Welcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Downloaded podcast; Digitally Uploaded! This week, Matt, Alan and Chris discuss narrative. From what we like to see in a game narrative, through to some games that we want to highlight as narratives we like in particular, and we enter into that…

Review: Nights of Azure (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 29, 2016

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Review by Matt S. It’s been a long time since I last played a game that was truly operatic in tone. There have been titles that have effectively latched on to some of the thematic pulls of the art form, such as Pandora’s Tower and Nier, but to find the…

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