Review by Matt S. If multiplayer is so important to your game that it’s the first option that pops up on the main menu, then it’s not a good look if there is never a single match to find. Skulls of the Shogun has been doing the rounds on other…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Of just all the video games that you could set out to make, the 4X must surely be the most complex. The typical 4X might not have the technical fidelity of a AAA-blockbuster, but the sheer amount of data that it needs to crunch, across military,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Chile’s ACE Team is undeniably the most prominent and celebrated developer to have emerged from South America. Across the company’s 22-year history, it has produced what can only be considered an eclectic library of games, from the oddball Rock of Ages, to the B-grade homage/satire The…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Note: In advance, I went into this game having not played ActRaiser, which I understand it’s a spiritual successor to. So in my video – and review on DDNet, I’ve looked at it in terms of it being a 2D platformer + tower defence strategy title.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of my favourite experiences back on the original XBox was a humble title from Korea called Kingdom Under Fire. It was basically everything I loved in video games – it was a blend of real-time strategy, RPG, and Dynasty Warriors-like action, and it really worked…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. XCOM has proven to be a very versatile foundation for a wide range of games. XCOM itself is a science fiction human-vs-aliens affair, but that foundation has been used for everything from James Bond-like espionage titles through to Call of Cthulhu-style horror. And now the celebrated…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Well, if Ubisoft won’t do it, you can always trust an indie to step in. We’ve been waiting quite a while for a new Heroes of Might & Magic experience. The venerable blend of strategy and RPG has fallen well off Ubisoft’s radar as a key…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I’m always up for more strategy action on console. It’s a genre that does so well on PC, but we see so less frequently on our TV devices and handhelds, and yet, it usually works so well on handheld too. Anyway, we’re going to get a…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. SEGA and Creative Assembly have pulled off something truly remarkable. Total War: Three Kingdoms has become the most successful title in the Total War series, and a massive hit for what remains an incredibly niche genre. With over 150,000 concurrent players at once at a point,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It surprises me that it has taken the talented group at Creative Assembly so long to take a swing at bringing its Total War formula to the ancient conflict depicted in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As a conflict that spread across the entirety of China,…
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