Review by Matt S. Ball porn. That’s right. That’s how I’m opening this review. Ball porn. We often use “XXXX porn” to describe a game that is so meticulous in its recreation of a real-world object that it almost seems to fetishise that object. It’s usually something we use in…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Captain Tsubasa took me by surprise – I wasn’t expecting Tamsoft (a company better know for fanservicey girlie games and JRPGs) would be able to produce a wonderful football game that is both highly accessible, and a quality throwback to the football games I loved playing…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Who the hell needs FIFA and PES when you’ve got Captain Tsubasa to play now? Not me. This humble little “arcade football game”, produced by a tiny team at Tamsoft for a fraction of the cost that EA and Konami’s monoliths are made with, is simply…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Woah. Woah. Woah. What the hell did they do to Project Cars? That brutally hardcore and rather dry racing simulator that turned heads and got people to break out their driving wheels over the last few years has somehow been replaced with… Real Racing 3. That’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The appeal of golf is that, unlike most other sports, the competition is almost entirely internal. Sure, you’re trying to land at the top of a leaderboard, but to do that you’re testing your own powers of concentration and precision, rather than trying to directly out-perform…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. 2K Games has a new golf game just out, and it’s really enjoyable (check back at DDNet for the review later today). One thing I have noticed about golf games, however, is that the good ones tend to age really, really well. For example, there’s a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Goddamn it, Konami. I’m one of the few that are out there crucifying the venerable Japanese publisher for the way it handles its business and the games that it publishers, but the way the company refuses to localise its Japanese baseball games infuriates me. I mean,…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. With COVID-19 effectively shutting down global sport, the sporting world is running on two tiers right now; there are the sports that are pulling even further ahead, as they have large communities that are growing larger thanks to the presence of high-quality video game adaptations of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Super Mega Baseball 3 reminds me of the baseball games I used to really love playing back on the Nintendo 64 and early PlayStation eras, when they were both accessible (thus making them good for multiplayer sessions) and yet also a serious effort to do the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It is an objectively good thing that the Chinese game development scene and market is opening up to the rest of the world. If you want proof of that, you just need to look at Lianhai Billiards Club, because no western developer would ever think to…
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