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The E3 wrap: Japan got its mojo back and life couldn’t be better

June 18, 2015

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All the major presentations and reveals from this year’s E3 have wrapped up, and while the show itself will go on for a while yet with media getting hands-on time with the various games, that’s it for the show for those of us watching from the sidelines. (Don’t worry, we’ll…

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June 18, 2015

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My publisher, No Starch Press, is currently running a Humble Book Bundle campaign. It’s the same deal as the gaming Humble Bundles – pay what you want and you get a bunch of books to download and read. One of the books in this week’s Humble Bundle is a sampler…

Trailer: The J-stars Victory Vs+ E3 trailer tells you all you need to know about this game

June 17, 2015

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J-stars Victory Vs+ is a game that we didn’t really think would make its way out west, because it involves characters from a lot of different anime and manga licenses, and in the west this means that a lot of different rights holders needed to sign off on it. And…

Trailer: Beyond Eyes almost makes me want an Xbox One

June 17, 2015

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I’ll admit that I still haven’t got an Xbox One yet. To date the exclusives and first party content hasn’t exactly knocked me over, and the Japanese developers haven’t warmed to it yet (in no small part because it’s an utter bomb in Japan at present). And with the stuff…

Persona 4: Dancing All Night looks better and better and has awesome new costumes

June 17, 2015

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We’ve covered Persona 4: Dancing All Night a couple of times in the past at DDNet, but Atlus brought a new trailer along to E3 and, well, we couldn’t resist having a watch. The game has just released in Japan, and has has been met with some positive early responses…

Trailer: Like Rollercoaster Tycoon? Planet Coaster is for you!

June 17, 2015

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It’s been a while since we has a good theme park simulator. Both Theme Park and Rollercoaster Tycoon have been poorly managed by their respective owners, and so fans of those classic franchises have been left waiting for a new developer to pick up the baton. It looks like Frontier…

Why the heck did Nintendo not stick this Fatal Frame trailer in its E3 show?

June 17, 2015

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Sometimes Nintendo absolutely baffles me. Its treatment of Fatal Frame is one example. It part owns the franchise, and has proceeded to decide that westerners are just not interested in it. Despite the fact that yes, we actually do like horror games out this way. Even cerebral ones like Fatal…

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June 17, 2015

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We do love our Fire Emblem games at Digitally Downloaded, and one of the genuine bright sparks among the relatively quiet show from Nintendo was the new trailers for the Fire Emblem titles on both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. On the 3DS we got to see some of the…

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June 17, 2015

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I think we should rename this E3 “that event where all our gaming dreams came true.” I mean, we’re quite literally talking about an event in which a new Shenmue, Final Fantasy VII Remake and The Last Guardian were announced, and these are all games no one thought would happen.…

Trailer: Metroid Prime: Federation Force

June 16, 2015

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If anything can be said about this year’s E3, it’s that it plucked all sorts of games and franchises we haven’t seen in years and breathed new life into them. From Nier to Shenmue, there’s good reason to get excited about properties that have taken a bit of a breather.…

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