Opinion by Matt S. To get something out of the way from the outset; when I say I don’t like open world games, I don’t mean that I dislike every single game within the genre. I can happily spend hundreds of hours playing games like Yakuza, or The Witcher 3;…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Way of the Samurai 3 is the third title in a series of very Japanese open world adventure games developed by Acquire, and currently being updated and rereleased on Steam by Ghostlight. Originally a game on PS3, Way of the Samurai plays like no other open…
Read MoreArticle by Sam M. Agent 47 is back. The bald man branded with a barcode who is also a master of disguise returns in a new episodic format, an increasingly popular way to release big titles nowadays. Games like Life is Strange and the King’s Quest reboot have implemented episodes…
Read MoreReview by Sam M. There’s something very primitive about Far Cry Primal. Everything has been stripped back, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If anything, the excessiveness of the later games in the series at times often felt like Ubisoft had given up and just gave into players wanting…
Read MoreSo, Natsuiro High School is a game in which its sole reason to exist is to give people the chance to skulk around a school and nearby town, with a camera in hand, and equipped with the mad skills necessary to slide under a girl’s skirt and photograph her underwear…
Read MoreHappy Lunar New Year everyone! This is going to be a semi-regular series which will slowly develop into a digital catalogue of games we at DDNet enjoy, cherish, or find irresistibly interesting. There will be old and new, fast and slow paced, meticulously realistic and unimaginably off the wall –…
Read MoreIt isn’t often that I end up gifting five copies of a game to friends while I’m still knee deep into it myself. Such is the case with The Witness. I was blown away by Braid on Xbox 360 years ago, and have been on a media blackout in anticipation…
Read MoreJean-Pierre Jeunet is one of my favourite film directors of all time. Ignoring his attempt to play in Hollywood with Aliens Resurrection (though nowhere near as bad as people would suggest that it is anyway), the French auteur’s body of work, from Delicatessen to The City Of Lost Children and…
Read MoreDragon’s Dogma is an interesting beast that appeared on Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 a couple of years ago now. Having seen a re-work with the moniker of Dark Arisen not long after, Capcom’s giant beast of exploration, dragon hunting, ogre slaying, and chimera tracking now makes its…
Read MoreYes, we mean that Rudyard Kipling – the Nobel-prize winning author who wrote The Jungle Book. The Secret Games Company is bringing Kipling’s India to life in Kim, based on Kipling’s masterpiece of the same name. Kipling was born in Bombay and educated in England, but he returned to India…
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