Welcome to the DDNet Awards, our annual celebration of the best and brightest games that we’ve been playing throughout the year. It has been a really good year for games in 2016, with great examples of every genre popping up through the year. Across 15 categories over the next three…
Read MoreOkay, so let’s call that first podcast a trial run. Now we’re back with the second, and it has a new home, music, and all that good stuff! This week, Alan, Chris and Matt talk about their favourite female game developers and characters. With it being International Women’s Day last…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. And you thought The Witness has a long development cycle… I remember playing Blast ‘Em Bunnies for the first time at an EB Expo before the PlayStation 4 had even launched. The team behind it, Nnooo, had it in a buggy and basic shape, but it…
Read MoreDeveloper-turned-publisher Nnooo will be bringing bunny greatness to the Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One. No matter what console you use, odds are you’ll be able to pick up Blast ‘Em Bunnies, which is being both developed and published from the Sydney-based company. The game was announced…
Read MoreWay back before the PlayStation 4 was released, in my first hands-on time with the console, I got to play an early build of Blast ‘Em Bunnies, the next game in the works from Aussie developers, Nnooo. Blast ‘Em Bunnies is a fast-paced, arcade action game. Players play as a…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. As our regular readers would know by now, we have launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a book on the topic of games as art. And core to that book will be interviews with some of the games industry’s most prominent artistic game developers. With that…
Read MoreInterview by Aidan B. One of our favourite local developers was at the EB Games 2013 expo in a big way. Nnooo, having now picked up the publisher’s role for two locally developed games on console, had three games to show off at the show. Not a bad effort for…
Read MoreEB Expo was bigger and better in 2013. Much bigger and better. It was a who’s who of the Australian games industry, from the big international publishers right down to the tiny local indies churning out top quality stuff for PC and mobile. We’ve got an absolute wealth of hands-on…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. Three months ago, if you had have told me that my most anticipated PlayStation 4 game would be a indie title from a tiny Australian development team, I would have laughed at you. And yet, in the absence of a concrete announcement that Kadokawa Games’ Natural…
Read MoreAfter a couple of announcements about games that it is set to publish for other developers, Nnooo has finally unveiled its first game since escapeVektor; Blast ‘Em Bunnies. Picture, if you will, the turret gun section of a FPS. Blast ‘Em Bunnies is an entire game built around that section.…
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