Article by Matt S. I’m not a big fan of MOBAs. They’re usually contextless content-driven games that come with all the qualities of every other esport; they feature a toxic, hyper-competitive community, have a lack of joy in the mechanics and play (because all that’s important in these games is…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. I must admit that I don’t check the mobile gaming space nearly as often as I probably should (especially since I subscribe to that Apple Arcade thing and don’t even check what games I’ve got to play on it). However, with this time of year being…
Read MoreAwards by DDNet Team It’s that time of year again, where we roll out the red carpet and celebrate the best that 2020 has offered us. In a year that has otherwise been so terrible, the fact that we’ve had a steady stream of such excellent games to play has…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. I’m going to say this up-front: these comparisons between The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Genshin Impact highlight just how superficial we can be in the way that we talk about games. Structurally, thematically, narratively, in terms of character design and in almost…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s a Miku game that even I can’t defend. Hatsune Miku – Tap Wonder – MikuTap, as the developers would like to have you affectionately know it as. What a disappointment this thing is. We’ve had some excellent Hatsune Miku games on iPhone in the past.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Get trash like Asphalt 9 off game consoles. Just as Apple is taking steps to mitigate against this kind of delinquent free-to-play nonsense with its Apple Arcade, the Nintendo Switch gets a high profile example of it. Opening your device to stuff like this isn’t the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Thank Miku there was that new Miku game announcement earlier today, to make up for the crushing disappointment that the new Utawarerumono game that was announced a week ago has turned out to be a free-to-play mobile game, which has the full name: Utawarerumono: Lost Flag.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Having a card game on the Nintendo Switch is the most delightful idea. As someone who started playing the physical Magic: The Gathering from the very first edition, and then played dozens of other trading card games (TCG) in the years since, from Call of Cthulhu…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Perhaps the most exciting bit of free-to-play mobile game news in quite some time for us Aussies, Fate/Grand Order is finally available for download on iOS and Android. Previously available in Japan, the US, Canada, Taiwan, and other regions, the game has already seen over 30…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. MercurySteam is a Spanish studio which should be familiar to fans of Castlevania and now Metroid – it has been the one championing those respective franchises with new entries long after their original developers moved on to different projects. But MercurySteam has been less prolific in…
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