Review by Matt S. If Destiny and Phantasy Star were to have a baby, we’d be questioning Phantasy Star’s taste in partners… but more particularly, we’d be looking at something like Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet. Based on the popular anime that is one giant meta-discussion about anime MMO worlds,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Senran Kagura Peach Beach splash is the kind of shooter game you should play if you like your shooters non-violent. See, in this game, all you do is shoot water pistols at your opponents. Totally innocent, right? I mean, in an era where apparently gun crime…
Read MoreWell, last week was a dramatic one in the games industry, what with Donald Trump suggesting that games cause the massacres over in the US (and not, you know, the guns). So we have a chat about that, and the broader implications on how we should be talking about this…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Kadokawa games, the developer and publisher of Root Letter, has announced that the game has now sold 400,000 units worldwide. Related reading: An interview on the making of Love Plus That’s both digital downloaded and via physical copies, and sales across all platforms, which includes PlayStation…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Legend of CaoCao is a new free-to-play game that has been released on mobile devices by Nexon and Koei Tecmo, and it’s surprisingly good. Before I get to that though, you’ll see through this article I refer to “The Legend…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Note: None of the below is any more NSFW that what you’ll usually see on DDNet, and please read through it all, because I’m not actually going to spend long talking about the “adult” side of the game. Just in case you skim through the first…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Late last year Koei Tecmo announced that is was bringing ongoing support of Dead or Alive 5 to a close. After hundreds of dollars worth of DLC costumes and the like it was finally time to move on. That could only mean one thing! Dead or…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. For me, writing about games isn’t just about writing about games. It’s a calling. It’s an all-consuming passion. I started writing about video games right back when I had a Game Boy Advance and there was a site called GBACentral. I loved my GBA (it was…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. One year ago today Yoko Taro’s NieR: Automata was unleashed on the world. I was a huge fan of the original, because despite its rough edges, the story it told was so deep, and so compelling, that nothing else really mattered to me. Moreso than even…
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