Please excuse this rather self-indulgent story, but as Digitally Downloaded is my heart and soul, I just couldn’t resist sharing some great news with our readers. The Lizzies is the IT Journalism Awards for Australia. This year, Digitally Downloaded is in the running for two prizes (the website hasn’t updated…
Read MoreI’ll be honest, up until a couple of months ago, I’ve never really played a hidden object game. Having grown up on adventure titles during LucasArts’ golden years, hidden object games (HOG) always felt like watered down versions of their point-and-click cousins. And that’s why I’m torn on Voodoo Chronicles:…
Read MoreI am a big, big fan of the Sacred franchise. Some might say they are mere Diablo clones, but the scale and scope of these games – especially Sacred 2 – makes it easy to lose weeks of time exploring a truly massive world. Throw in a reasonably interesting mythology…
Read MoreThe premise has appealed to me since the day I first read about it: NetherRealms Studio will take a huge pool of DC characters and plunk them down in a Mortal Kombat-style of video game. It sounded brilliant, but there was at least some cause for concern.After all, while I…
Read More‘Construct 2‘ is a game development suite developed by Scirra Ltd., the same company that created the free, open-source ‘Construct‘ game-making toolset. Having experienced both using other game creation tools and programming video game engines from scratch (Game Makerand Javarespectively), I thought I would try out Construct 2 for myself.…
Read MoreFrom the very earliest eras of game development, characters have been critical to the experience. Would Space Invaders be the same game if it didn’t have those sprites that, in two frames of animation had so much personality that we still instantly recognise them now? Would Nintendo be in the…
Read MoreEveryone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in the world and this…
Read MoreThe first Bioshock was a huge hit when it released to excellent sales and reviews. The world of Rapture was wonderfully realised, the city beneath the water a dark, often creepy affair that managed to blend an interesting story with excellent gameplay mechanics, making it stand out from many of…
Read MoreRumblings in the E3 (and pre-E3) landscape shaped the biggest news of this past week along with a plethora of C2E2 news and some big acquisitions by Nordic Games. Nintendo drops out of the press conference shuffle The biggest news of the week is a story that just broke today…
Read MoreSomewhere along the line, Mirror of Fate lost me. I’m not quite sure exactly where that was, and I did manage to struggle on despite not really engaging with the experience, but there was definitely a point where this game went from being filled with potential to being a startlingly-simple…
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