Review by Matt S. You know how children think it’s funny to take something good, and then put something ridiculous over the top? Or take something serious, and then apply hyperbole or sarcasm to the point where it’s ridiculous, and they then think it’s funny? Most people grow out of…
Read MoreFeature by Matt S. Goichi Suda is a bit of a hero to many on the DDNet team. His unwavering commitment to games that are transgressive and creative, even to the detriment of their critical rating, is noble, and the fact he’s managed to build up a major Japanese development…
Read MoreList by Matt S. If you’ve been a game critic for as long as I have (and, without giving away ages because it’s quite embarrassing; I’d actually be well past my time for long service leave if I had been working for the one place all this time), one of…
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Let’s get something clear, right off the bat: Gal*Gun: Double Peace is a lewd, hypersexualised, fanservice-riddled game, and it never pretends to be anything else. At the same time, it has a level of self-awareness and subversiveness that also makes it a rather brilliant satire of such games and of…
Read MoreList by Nicktatorship. It’s Friday the 13th, and it’s the day Doom releases. So let’s talk about Nintendo. It and doom go well together. Here’s the thing; the Wii U suffered from a lack of games that were not made by Nintendo. We suspect that for the Nintendo NX, the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I’ve been inspired by Kotaku Australia’s Mark Serrels. The guy has a strong opinion about his right to illegally download Game of Thrones, and he is willing to keep coming back to tell us how wrong we are if we disagree with him. That takes gumption.…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Microsoft has released its second attempt at an AI, after the spectacular failure of Tay, a social interaction bot unleashed on Twitter that was turned racist in a matter of hours. This new attempt can’t be racist, as it doesn’t learn in interacting with people, but…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. To quote a very interesting and wholly unserious movie that you should probably watch, even if you don’t enjoy it, “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball”. In a lot of cases this statement holds true for our heroes in one of…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Recently, Australian indie developer/ publisher, Nnooo, announced that it was going to publish a large number of indie games on consoles. The really good news is that a significant number of these are being developed by Australians. It’s good news for the local indie scene that…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Good Morning Call is perhaps my favourite thing on Netflix now, and indeed, as far as I’m concerned, it’s the best validation of the long term worth of Netflix as a platform. Once the initial lustre of the streaming service wore off I was left wondering…
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