List by Matt S. I know that my taste in games can be somewhat different to what people in the “mainstream” like to play. And I’m quite comfortable with that. I can only be me, and I would find life quite boring if I agreed with the mainstream on everything.…
Read MoreList by Matt S. I’ve been really, really sick this week. Sick enough that if it wasn’t for the awesome efforts of the entire DDNet team, the website would have been all tumbleweeds this week. Now that I’m somewhat on the mend, I’ve been hit with a bit of a…
Read MoreList by Matt S. Every year, E3 is a huge event where we see an awful lot of new stuff from the big blockbuster publishers. But it’s hard for smaller developers and publishers to catch the attention of the media when they’re busy covering Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty…
Read MoreList by Matt S. E3 is right around the corner, folks! That is of course exciting news; it means we’ll be finding out about all the big games that we’ll be playing over the next couple of years. Games near completion will be given the full hands-on treatment by everyone…
Read MoreList by Matt S. You may have noticed that we reviewed quite a few fighting games this week. A new Guilty Gear, Street Fighter and Injustice game, to be precise. In addition to that, on the Nintendo Switch there was an old King of Fighters game released as a Neo…
Read MoreList by Matt S. It has been one incredible year for game releases so far in 2017… unarguably one of the best front ends of the year ever. Things will settle down just a little over the coming weeks as we ramp towards E3, and all the excitement that brings,…
Read MoreList by Matt S. As a handheld console, the Nintendo Switch is effectively old man Ninty’s replacement to the 3DS. The great news is that as a handheld console, the Switch is superb, and that means, we hope, that many of the 3DS games that we loved will make their…
Read MoreList by Matt S. The PlayStation Vita is an utterly essential console if you’re a fan of JRPGs. There’s just no other way to say it; the console might not have been a mainstream success, but to this day there is an endless stream of incredible JRPGs that are being…
Read MoreList by Harvard L. Who doesn’t love a good slice-of-life anime? A genre wildly popular in Japanese fiction, slice-of-life novels, anime and manga centre around the pleasure of watching ordinary, day to day interactions between people. Rather than explore adventures, battles and conflicts, slice-of-life stories eschew manufactured tension to fall…
Read MoreList by Matt S. The PlayStation 4 is a few years old now, and over that time we’ve seen well over 1000 games release (looking at the PlayStation Network, it currently sits at 1400, give or take a few, not including pre-orders). Of course, over that time there have been…
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