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A screenshot from Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian.

12.07.2025

A new trailer for Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian introduces its systems

Gust has shared new details about Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian, including a new systems introduction trailer. It also shared that the game and Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator are considered A25 in the franchise, making Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian a new entry in the series (it is not a spin-off or a port). The two titles are set in one universe, but the upcoming Atelier Resleriana is a new story occurring in parallel with its predecessor.…

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A new trailer for Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian introduces its systems

July 12, 2025

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The wishlist artwork for Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S+.

There are over 1,000 puzzles in Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S+!

July 11, 2025

Hatsune Miku/News

More Miku! More puzzles! Thank you for your collaboration, vocaloid and puzzle game gods! Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S+ is the sequel to the 2020 game, which was an expansion to a mobile title. DDNet Editor-in-Chief Matt loved that game, writing in his review that the game is more than…

A screenshot from Morgan: Metal Detective.

Coming-of-age mystery game Morgan: Metal Detective launches this month

July 10, 2025

Indie/News

Indie developer Studio Morgan has announced that Morgan: Metal Detective, its cosy first-person metal detector adventure game, will be released for PC and consoles at the end of July 2025. The game follows teenage girl Morgan as she visits the Cornish island of Glasden with her Mum after her grandfather’s…

The key art for LoveR Kiss: Endless Memories.

Romance simulator LoveR Kiss: Endless Memories announced

July 10, 2025

Kadokawa Games/News

Does a five-year-old game really need updating? Dragami Games sure seems to think so: it has announced LoveR Kiss: Endless Memories, a “significantly enhanced” version of the 2020 game LoveR Kiss. This version will launch in Japan for PC and Nintendo Switch this November; while there is no Western release,…

Arcade Archives enters a new era – Arcade Archives 2 is so exciting

July 9, 2025

Arcade Archives/Retro

One of the quieter events that piggybacked off the Nintendo Switch 2 launch was the release of the first in Hamster’s Arcade Archives 2 series. Ridge Racer launched with the console, and now there’s already a second title, with the arcade dogfighting sim, Air Combat 22 (don’t be surprised that…

Poignant photo adventure OPUS: Prism Peak launches for PC this fall

July 9, 2025

News/Shueisha

Shueisha Games and Sigono have announced a release window for the photo adventure game OPUS: Prism Peak, stating it will be released for PC “this fall.” It follows an ex-photojournalist who is returning to his hometown when an accident transports him to a liminal realm. In this quiet, surreal world…

Review: Tamagotchi Plaza (Nintendo Switch 2)

July 8, 2025

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Tamagotchi are one of those iconic things that you just hope hands around forever. The little devices that you pin to your backpack or carry around in your pocket for micro-distractions throughout the day are wholesome and charming. You’d be lucky if you spent more than five minutes with your…

Cult classic remaster Mamorukun ReCurse! launches worldwide this September

July 8, 2025

Clear River Games/News

Vertical-scrolling shoot ‘em up Mamorukun ReCurse! is getting a modern remaster, and Clear River Games announced today that it would publish the game in the West simultaneously with its Japanese launch. This updated version also includes all previously released DLC. The announcement was made through a brand-new, bullet-soaked trailer for…

Review: Death Stranding 2 (Sony PlayStation 5)

July 7, 2025

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Hideo Kojima is the video game industry’s big auteur. The Stanley Kubrick of games. The guy who somehow gets a big budget to make his strange experiments, even when they defy the industry best practice, and as we all know, the games industry is very best practice orientated. It’s all…

A newly-cropped version of Dee Dee in the DDNet news studio.

The catch-up coffee: July 7, 2025

July 7, 2025

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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…

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Reviews

Review: Tamagotchi Plaza (Nintendo Switch 2)

July 8, 2025

Tamagotchi are one of those iconic things that you just hope hands around forever. The little devices that you pin to your…

Review: Death Stranding 2 (Sony PlayStation 5)

July 7, 2025

Hideo Kojima is the video game industry’s big auteur. The Stanley Kubrick of games. The guy who somehow gets a big budget…

Review: Against the Storm (Nintendo Switch)

June 30, 2025

Ever found yourself looking at the state of video games and going: “Why are so many things becoming so simplified and streamlined?”…

Review: 100 in 1 Game Collection (Nintendo Switch)

June 24, 2025

“Oh, great,” your little guide through the minigames of 100 in 1 Game Collection tells you as you unlock the next one.…

Videos

Podcast-in-Video: Getting nostalgic for Xenogears

December 6, 2023

Xenogears is an all-time classic, but the question is… could something like that even be made again today? That’s what we discuss…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we loved through 2023

December 5, 2023

As it is the last month of the year, it’s time to look back at all the games that were released this…

Interview with the producer and director of Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Podcast-in-Video: The big game releases in December

December 5, 2023

Apologies that we’ve been absent from uploading these videos. Various technical issues prevented us from doing a video version of the podcast,…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we wouldn’t play on the train

September 7, 2023

Got a Nintendo Switch? At some stage you’ve probably taken it out in public. After all, gaming on the go is very…

Interviews

On the making of the SaGa Frontier 2 remaster

June 16, 2025

Earlier this year Square Enix released a remaster of SaGa Frontier 2 (read our review here). It is one of the better…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews Fantasian Neo Dimension

We got to Q & A the JRPG legend, Hironobu Sakaguchi, about Fantasian

January 30, 2025

It’s not every day that you get to interview one of your heroes, but that was certainly the case when I got…

A screenshot of the three leaders in Romance of the Three Kingdom 8 Remake.

Launch interview: On remaking Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

October 24, 2024

The remake of Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII is now out in the wild, and it is a very good game.…

A 4X game about… a failing empire? An interview with JG Games

October 3, 2024

Most 4X and empire-building strategy games are focused on building an empire up. Starting from humble roots and then carefully managing the…

Gadgets

by Matt

July 1, 2025

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Gadget review: SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless Gen 2 wireless mouse

How do you “guarantee” 60 million clicks on a mouse? I get that’s an impressive number, but a guarantee is a legal term, and so does that mean that if you can somehow prove that you’ve only got 59,999,999 clicks on your mouse before it craps out, you’re entitled to a full replacement? If so, you need to know, SteelSeries,…

A photo of the Nintendo Switch 2 and associated peripherals

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Hardware Review: Nintendo Switch 2

To put this review very simply: The Nintendo Switch is my favourite console of all time, and the Switch 2 is the sequel to that. You could argue that this is almost shockingly safe by Nintendo, given the whimsical direction that the company has taken with most of its modern…

The Nintendo Switch 2 really is the sequel to the best console of all time

There are over 1,100 games registered to my Nintendo Switch account. When…

Gadget Review: Corsair Void Wireless V2 Headset

Corsair tends to punch above its weight, offering good quality equipment tuned…