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Nippon Ichi announces The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2

May 12, 2015

Nippon Ichi has formally announced a sequel to its painfully underrated action RPG, The Witch and the Hundred Knight. It doesn’t have the most imaginative name, but if it’s more of the same as the last game, with some gameplay refinements, we’ll enjoy this one a great deal. The Witch…

GUST has a PS4 game on the way… and being helmed by someone not from GUST

May 12, 2015

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This is truly fascinating. GUST has announced its first PlayStation 4 game, Land of No Night, and while that’s really exciting in itself (after all, I love GUST with an absolute passion), what is really interesting is that it’s not being directed by one of GUST’s creatives. (The game is…

Trailer: Lost Dimension is looking pretty darned good

May 12, 2015

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NISA (and Atlus in America) just isn’t letting the PlayStation 3 die, or the PlayStation Vita be forgotten. In a couple of months, it will release a new tactical RPG, Lost Dimension, for both platforms, and to get the hype machine going, it has released a trailer of the opening…

Review: State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition (Microsoft Xbox One)

May 12, 2015

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State of Decay for Xbox One is the updated version of the original Xbox 360 and PC release. Subtitled “year one” this time around, the updated version brings the DLC into the base game while expanding on the original edition with new content, vehicles and weapons to play with. Community…

Review: Shovel Knight (Sony PlayStation Vita)

May 11, 2015

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With the gaming industry in uproar over the overwhelming success of the just released Kickstarter campaign from ex-Rare team members, Yooka-Laylee – even if we at DDNet have our reservations for the game – Shovel Knight’s release on the PlayStation Network once again reminds us that while Kickstarter indeed does…

Review: Cube Creator 3D (Nintendo 3DS)

May 11, 2015

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As with any creation that increases in popularity, clones and spiritual successors will attempt to capitalise on the appeal of the original. We’ve already seen this on the Nintendo 3DS, and it was a truly horrific experience. Cube Creator 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is another take on Mojang’s Minecraft,…

Gadget Review: iHome iBN10 Bluetooth Stereo

May 11, 2015

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Many of the iHome products offer a variety of different accessories and options, but the iBN10 a much more streamlined, for better or worse. It is a speaker system that supports a handful of inputs and does so by providing loud, clear audio, but without a lot of extra frills.…

Aussie developer, Torus Games, nabs Disney Developer of the Year Award

May 11, 2015

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Some good news on a Monday morning for the local games industry, Melbourne-based Torus Games, one of the real veterans of the local industry, has picked up a Developer of the Year award form one of the largest entertainment behemoths in history, Disney. The award comes on the back of…

Review: Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed (Sony PlayStation Vita)

May 10, 2015

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Tamsoft, the developer of Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed, is in some ways the perfect match for Compile Heart’s premier franchise. But in other ways the licensing of the franchise to the developer has resulted in a confused title that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. Related reading:…

The Friday 10: Ten games too smart for their own good

May 8, 2015

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Now that we’ve accepted that games have artistic merit (or, at least, a growing number of people who play games have done so), we’ve started to see a number of game directors and producers emerge who are pushing the boundaries of storytelling and thinking behind games. In other words, we’re…

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