Review by Nick H. Telltale Games sure knows how to put together an entertaining story, I will give them that one right out of the gates. The Wolf Among Us is following the same formula that The Walking Dead established previously which tasks players with following a narrative-heavy experience. Telltale…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Have you heard of developers, Supercell? What about Clash Of Clans? I thought that one would ring a bell. The game that took the crown for “poster child of iOS gaming” has been doing very well for its parent. According to a report on Gamasutra, we…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It all started out as a joke. Coffee Stain Studios released on YouTube some silly footage of “Goat Simulator,” a clear satire of the massive number of “simulator” games (such as Farming Simulator), that appear to be on very mundane themes indeed. Because the Internet has…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The PlayStation 4 is just about to launch in Japan, and Famitsu has done its reviews of the first batch of PS4 games. The three games with the highest scores? Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends, Yakuza: Ishin, and Tomb Raider. Meanwhile Nobunaga’s Ambition: Creation got the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. So I finally got around to picking up a PlayStation 4 (side note to other Australians, you still need to preorder for shipments at EB Games. Who knows when the console will be available on the shelves). That in turn meant that my first PlayStation 4…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. What does it mean that I prefer the “Monster Hunter clones” to the actual Monster Hunter games? I was thoroughly entertained by Soul Sacrifice, released on the PlayStation Vita not long ago, and I am absolutely compelled by Tecmo Koei’s Toukiden. I know I’ve just committed blasphemy…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. If you had a PlayStation Portable or PlayStation 3, then at some point you probably bought yourself a PlayStation Minis game. In fact, if you’re anything like me then you probably acquired quite a few of them. Before PlayStation Mobile, and before the PlayStation Network was…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Who doesn’t like Worms? While it can be argued that the venerable franchise hasn’t done enough to modernise and reinvent itself over the years, the announcement of next-gen Worms is certainly worth celebrating. And that’s precisely what Team17 has done. Worms Battlegrounds will hit PlayStation 4…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Assassin’s Creed IV hit Ubisoft’s expectations with 10 million units shipped, according to the company’s third quarter financial report. Just Dance 2014 also performed strongly at six million units, but the news aside from those two titles was not as rosy for the publisher. For the…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. As followers of Digitally Downloaded will know, we recently ran a Kickstarter to try and get enough money to publish a book about games. The Kickstarter itself was wildly successful in that it essentially became a pitch; after a publisher read it, they were prepared to…
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