Nintendo, despite struggling with the Nintendo Wii U, has announced gains to its operating income for the full financial year. According to its results, published today, Nintendo’s operating income was 24.7 billion yen, on the back of net sales of 549.7 billion yen. Thanks to foreign exchange gains totaling 34.0…
Read MoreHola dear readers! It’s that time of year again where I take the opportunity to do a little bit of boasting on behalf of the entire team; the finalists for the 2015 Lizzies Australian IT Journalism Awards have been announced, and for the third consecutive year, Digitally Downloaded.net has been…
Read MorePuuba’s The Weaponographist is apparently the answer to what if the original Legend of Zelda was fused with Smash T.V., with a bit of The Binding of Isaac and added anachronism for good measure. Utilising a simple premise, lightweight gameplay, and balanced challenge, The Weaponographist certainly is different from its…
Read MoreKoei Tecmo really needs to stop announcing all its cool games at midnight (Australian time) so that the news isn’t hours late by the time I get a chance to report on it… Anyway, for people who may not have seen the news yet, Koei Tecmo has confirmed that the…
Read MoreI can picture the team meeting in Bloober Team’s office when BRAWL was first envisioned. I imagine much of the team, having completed Basement Crawl, were quite mortified at the public response to their attempt to recreate Bomberman with a horror twist, and figured they’d try and do it right…
Read MoreAbout an hour into my time with Quarries of Scred, I decided to look at the game’s stats page and see what my progress has been like. To my surprise, sixty minutes into the game I had made one hundred attempts into the game’s randomly generated mines. Published by Surprise…
Read MoreProject CARS is the first serious racing game of genuine quality on the new generation of consoles. It’s not the first racing game, of course, because we’ve got the likes of Forza, Driveclub, and The Crew, but they’re all variations of racing games designed around creating a sensation of speed…
Read MoreStrategy and classic RPG fans rejoice! A new Humble Bundle has been launched, and it is by far the best value bundle I’ve come across yet. The Humble Might & Magic Bundle gives you access (at any price) to Heroes of Might & Magic 2: Gold Edition, Heroes of Might…
Read MoreThe point-and-click adventure genre has seen some solid releases over the last year, and Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today is another solid example of the genre. The dark, dystopian atmosphere is well-realised through the handful of hours it takes to reach the story’s conclusion. A conclusion however, that did its…
Read MoreThe PlayStation 4 turns 18 months old this month. It’s been a whirlwind 18 months, but I know I couldn’t go without the console now. It has done everything that I expected a games console to do with plug-and-play ease of use, and then has an expanding range of media…
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