Matt S. is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of DDNet. He's been writing about games for over 20 years, including a book, but is perhaps best-known for being the high priest of the Church of Hatsune Miku.
Love Too Easily ties hard, and I’ll give it props for tackling an enormously difficult genre for the video game medium: rom-coms are difficult in literature and cinema, and both of those mediums are far more nuanced for storytelling that extends beyond physical conflict. Unfortunately, Love Too Easily also highlights that video games have some growing up to do. The…
It’s our first episode of 2025, and we’re rolling January and February together, as the team is busy with lifestyle activities like getting married. For this first episode, we run through the intimidatingly big release line-up for February, and then talk in-depth about the Switch 2 – what we saw…
All the best titles on PlayStation Vita were experimental little efforts with…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I…
After a month of work, the new-look DigitallyDownloaded.net is finally live, and we are absolutely thrilled with how it has turned out. I’m sure you’re all going to love a cleaner, prettier, more functional and more interesting website too. It makes our reviews and features really pop! This was the…
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Wow! It has been quite the process and drama getting this together. When a hard drive AND backup crashed and melted, no only did we miss our original January release date for A Week On The Water as we had intended… but we very nearly lost the entire game! I’ve…
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Conan Chop Chop wants to sit somewhere between Gauntlet and Hades. It wants to be an action roguelike with a moreish loot system, but also being orientated heavily towards bringing four friends together for some button-mashing chaos. Unfortunately, it’s much too inconsistent to reach the heights of either genre-defining great,…
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With its title, Triangle Strategy takes being “on the nose” to a whole other level. While that is a weakness because it is difficult not to roll the eyes at it on first impressions alone, the ideas and concept behind it are sound and make more sense the further you…
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Sometimes a game comes along and just wants to be a bright, happy bit of fan service, and to criticise it for that, and not being something that it’s not, seems a bit silly. As a bright and happy bit of fan service, Chocobo GP is wholesome, charming, cheerful and…
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Babylon’s Fall is a game that has been designed to be exclusively a “live service” multiplayer game. And so, to do something different with this review, Matt R (of Shindig and regular on DDNet fame) and I buddied up to cruise through a chunk of the game, and now, to…
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Hundred Days is one of those wish fulfilment simulators that I am so glad exists. I love vineyards. I love touring them, tasting their boutique wines, and then staying for an à la carte meal at the vineyard’s inevitably pretentious-but-tasty restaurant. The food is always perfectly matched to the wine,…
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Whenever FromSoftware releases a new game, one thing is guaranteed: the discourse of the week will be about its “difficulty”. Elden Ring, much like the Souls series and Sekiro before it, does not have an easy mode. In fact, the game is genuinely challenging. Note: It’s not difficult as some claim – it’s not like…
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My spouse (Lady Sun Shangxiang, no less!), who I had been wooing for years before finally tying the knot, was in trouble. A large force led by Cao Cao had attacked one of my more remote territories, and the task of holding down an entire flank was left on her.…
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The Nintendo Switch has become a real home to digital board games. It’s not quite up there with the PC or mobile devices, but the range of what is available does go pretty deep and broad now. Case-in-point: I hadn’t actually played (or even heard of) Concordia before I saw…
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