Video by Matt S. Just as a quick note: While this video discusses Tokyo Mirage Sessions, I don’t have any footage of that, so instead I’ve just pulled together a whole lot of fan service game footage, but that stuff is fun. The whole “censorship” debate has blown up a…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I touched on this in my review of The Alliance Alive HD, but I wanted to expand on it while it’s fresh in my memory. I know that I’ve talked about how games should be shorter in opinion pieces in the past, but here I wanted…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Sony has definitely changed its publishing and development focus over the last couple of years, going from a company taking on all kind of indie and niche stuff to go with its marquee titles to becoming almost entirely blockbuster-orientated. In this video I muse on the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. This year is the fifth consecutive year that I’ve attended TGS, and it’s become something that I don’t even question – every year I am coming back to go to this event. I don’t come for the news, since not that much is actually announced at…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. One of the best pieces of news that came from the (generally excellent) Nintendo Direct yesterday was that Nintendo was finally going to start providing SNES games to subscribers to its digital service. Furthermore, it dropped the first package of games under the expanded service today,…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. There’s been a lot said and written about Astral Chain’s use of police as the heroes. From major publications (Polygon and Vice) through to blogs, and then on to social media, the question of why PlatinumGames would lionise the police seems to be a core concern…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. One of the regular watchers of the DDNet YouTube community asked me to canvas this topic, so here we go! An in-depth look at fan service, exploitation, and art in video games – is exploitation an issue, where to we draw the line, and how do…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I’ve been thinking a great deal about art and transgression recently. As regular readers probably know, it’s a topic that I regularly come back to. In fact if I’d say there’s any one thing about art that appeals to me, it’s the way that art can…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. For anyone following the news, it’s been a pretty distressing couple of days. America experienced not one, but two mass shootings within a 24-hour time span, and these were of a scale large enough to make global news. Yes, America is still on track for more…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. A week ago the American Justice Department decided that it would be reinstating the federal use of capital punishment (the death penalty). While the majority of American states have never stopped using the death penalty, at a federal level that particular legal punishment had been dormant…
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