News by Matt S. The best way to catch my attention is to promise “cosmic horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and Junji Ito.” It’s the reference to Ito that gets it over the line. Everyone knows who Lovecraft is. That’s an easy reference to claim. To also be inspired by…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One quick way to get my attention is to promise me a “turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements.” That does check off quite a few of my favourite things. The good news is that German indie developer, Argonwood, looks set to deliver to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. SNK’s super fanservicey all-girl fighting game, SNK Heroines, is out in just a few short months now. Now that the full character roster has been announced, the publishers of the game have shifted attention to now providing us with information on what we’ll actually be doing…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I don’t like the way game publisher drip feed character reveals with fighting games. It makes me all nervous while I wait to see if my favourite character is actually going to make the cut. Luckily I can now look forward to Soulcalibur VI in full,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We love the RPG Maker franchise here at DDNet. Easy to use, these software packages allow fans to create the classical sprite-based JRPGs of their dreams. Think you’ve got what it takes to do better than Final Fantasy VI? Well, with RPG Maker, you can put…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Nothing made me sadder to see the original The Caligula Effect bomb in the west. It was always going to, of course, as a Vita-exclusive uber-niche JRPG, but I wanted Atlus to be rewarded for its efforts. Related reading: Our review of the game’s original PlayStation…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Taiwanese developer behind the rather excellent Detention are back with Devotion, which is being billed as an “atmospheric first-person horror game set in 1980’s Taiwan”. In other words, much as Detention was both a love letter to their homeland and culture and expose on the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Miku bless FuRyu. The group behind niche gems such as Lost Dimension and The Caligula Effect might not often find commercial success, but its games are always so smart and stylish, the announcement of a new one will always get me excited. FuRyu’s next one is…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Warriors Orochi 4 is going to be great. Bringing together all the heroes from the Samurai Warriors and Dynasty Warriors franchises has always been a recipe for success, and we can’t see Koei Tecmo letting us down with this latest one. We now have a release…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo has announced Dead or Alive 6. We all knew it was coming, but now we have a trailer and stuff. And it looks good. Weirdly enough, though, it doesn’t focus on the sexiness, which is, of course, Dead or Alive’s hallmark. Instead, from this…
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