Interview: The duo building Australia’s own Danganronpa (exclusive images, too!)

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We have become immediate fans of Quantum Suicide after being made aware of it yesterday. It is in many ways a holy trinity for what we like to stand for at DDNet; it’s indie creativity at work, it’s a “Japanese game” and it’s developed by Aussies! As a visual novel…

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Danganronpa: information on a new anime and game descends from the heavens in a ray of divine light

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Okay, so I’ll try to stay coherenrfhzioe$ryhs&… Let’s try again: I’ll try to stay coherent as I share with you newly-released information on the Danganronpa franchise. A while back, Spike Chunsoft revealed the existence of Danganronpa V3 to our great rejoicing. The reason for its insistence on calling it “New…

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Review: Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (Sony PlayStation Vita)

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Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is a deeply unsettling game. And I mean that as a genuine compliment. I don’t think there has been another game that has managed to shake me quite as profoundly as this one. Related reading: At the least you should consider playing the original…

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The Friday Ten: Ten games we’d like to see made into live-action films

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I thought we could do something a little different this week to our usual game-based countdowns, and have a look at some games that would be perfect as films. Of course, there haven’t been that many good video game movie adaptations out there. There’s a couple of decent ones, for…

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Review: Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (PlayStation Vita)

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Review by Matt S. The first Danganronpa was a masterclass in narrative storytelling. Taking a series of murder mysteries, and wrapping them up in a philosophical framework that covered everything from Schrodinger’s Cat to nihilism, game theory to morality, it’s the kind of game that you could replay over and…

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