I love playing cricket on the go. I think it’s because of the longer span of time that it takes place over. With football, or ice hockey, or tennis, or volleyball, a game’s over in under an hour (when playing in video game form) and so, consequently, when I sit…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I am a terrible Canadian. I know the sport of lacrosse was first documented here (or at least in the area that would later become Canada) and I know that long before Europeans invaded North America the sport was played — in an early form, of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I want to get the startling irony out of the way first: An Australian developer produced Casey Powell Lacrosse 16. You’d have to live in Australia to really understand why that is so ironic, but this sport is so spectacularly unpopular in this country half the…
Read MoreRugby league is an odd sport. In Australia, its popularity is really only at its peak on the eastern coastline, with much of the rest of the country preferring AFL, which itself is a sport unique to Australia. And while Australia is a stronghold for the sport, it pales in…
Read MoreBig Ant, the Australian developer behind the excellent Don Bradman Cricket and TableTop Cricket titles, has exclusively announced to us that it is in active development of a sequel to Don Bradman Cricket. While we weren’t given any timeline on the release of the game, the development is happening now,…
Read MoreIf you’re an Australian, and a fan of cricket, then you will surely know of Test Match Cricket. An admirable attempt to turn the sport into a board game, Test Match Cricket was nonetheless a rather simple and often frustrating interpretation of the game, because in trying to emulate the…
Read MoreFor long-suffering fans of the sport of cricket, Don Bradman Cricket 14 from Big Ant Studios was nothing short of a revelation. Finally, after many years of games that were, to put it nicely, budget releases, was a cricket game with ambition and execution and while the end result wasn’t…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. To explain who Don Bradman is for our American and Japanese readers, I’ll talk in terms of sports more familiar in those nations; In basketball, Michael Jordan has the most points per game on average in NBA history, at 30.12. His nearest rival was Wilt Chamberlain…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s finally happening! After a complete mess of a production cycle that saw Ashes Cricket ultimately cancelled last year, the other cricket game that was in production, Don Bradman’s Cricket, has finally been given a release date. It hits shelves (perhaps only Australian shelves?) on April…
Read MoreA cheeky little email was dropped in my inbox this morning; Aussie-based Big Ant Studios has responded to the tragic news that Ashes Cricket 2013 is dead by releasing a new trailer for its upcoming Don Bradman Cricket 14 and reminding us that there is another cricket game on the…
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