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08.06.2023

Highlights: Guerrilla Collective Publisher Spotlights 2023

It’s the second highlight article of the day, this time focusing on what came immediately after the Guerrilla Collective Showcase – its Publisher Spotlights. This showcase focuses on upcoming games from three indie game publishers: Freedom Games, Hype Train, and Tiny Build. As always, I’m here with highlights for you, in addition to a full list of featured games. All games are being released for PC; other platforms will be noted per game if mentioned.…

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Highlights: Guerrilla Collective Publisher Spotlights 2023

June 8, 2023

Freedom Games/Guerrilla Collective/News/tinyBuildGAMES

It’s the second highlight article of the day, this time focusing on what came immediately after the Guerrilla Collective Showcase – its Publisher Spotlights. This showcase focuses on upcoming games from three indie game publishers: Freedom Games, Hype Train, and Tiny Build. As always, I’m here with highlights for you,…

Highlights: Guerrilla Collective Showcase 2023

June 8, 2023

Guerrilla Collective/News

It’s the beginning of 2023’s biggest week of western gaming news. I’m still calling it Not-E3, just because there’s no better term for it yet. Up first is Guerrilla Collective’s 2023 showcase. I’ll be highlighting the best featured games, while also providing a full list of titles mentioned and the…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews the Dance Dance Danseur anime

“Talent is cruel” – On The Demands Of Ballet And Dance Dance Danseur

June 8, 2023

anime/ballet/Features/Major Feature

As a child, Murao Junpei is captivated when a male ballet soloist takes to the stage at his sister’s ballet recital. A passion awakened in him, Junpei asks his parents if he can start doing ballet. His father – a stunt coordinator for ﬁlms – suggests he tries something “manlier”…

Welcome to the Ballroom: A marvellous anime and manga, representing a niche sport

June 7, 2023

anime/Features/Manga

Sports anime and manga are not uncommon in Japan. Football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, ﬁgure skating and even badminton have popular stories that aim to make the sport, as well as the characters and their narrative arcs, interesting to both fans of the sport and complete newcomers. Related reading: If you…

Review: Super Mega Baseball 4 (Nintendo Switch)

June 7, 2023

Nintendo Switch/Reviews/sports game/Super Mega Baseball

What is it with sports video games and card-based modes being the focus? I do understand that sports and cards go together fine. I used to collect basketball cards myself. But I always thought the appeal in those was the tangible collectability (and potential value) of them. Apparently, there’s something…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews Jack Jeanne on Nintendo Switch

Review: Jack Jeanne (Nintendo Switch)

June 6, 2023

Nintendo Switch/Reviews/visual novel

Have you ever played a game that feels like it was designed specifically for you? Jack Jeanne is just that to me. In fact, I’m working on a visual novel project myself, and I’m shocked at just how thematically and structurally similar it will be to Jack Jeanne (at least,…

Apple’s new Vision Pro isn’t “exciting tech” – it’s an evil cyberpunk dystopia we were warned about years ago

June 6, 2023

Apple/AR/Features/Opinion

Artists are forever predicting the future. Sometimes the predictions are merely a testing idea that doesn’t play out. Sometimes they nail it. We’re about to talk about an example of artists totally nailing it. Overnight (for us here in Australia) Apple revealed the Vision Pro; a new high-end set of…

The key art for 2023's Wholesome Direct.

Wholesome Games’ Wholesome Direct is the one thing you don’t want to miss out on this week

June 6, 2023

News/Wholesome Games Direct

It’s Not E3 time once again! To say that this week will be fluffernutters is an understatement. The showcases basically seem endless when looking at it from this side. I’m keeping my eye on all of them, and will be sure to recap and share highlights as things happen. Basically,…

The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra will be performing video game music

June 6, 2023

music concert/News

Game music is something that I admittedly take for granted. It always just is. Every now and then, though, a game’s soundtrack really stands out and enhances the game’s experience. Spiritfarer comes to mind, there. But video game music is often not associated with high-class orchestras, or live music altogether.…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews Nightmare Reaper on Nintendo Switch

Review: Nightmare Reaper (Nintendo Switch)

June 5, 2023

FPS/Indie/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

Nightmare Reaper aims to be a blend of roguelike and nostalgic throwback to the “boomer shooter” era of Doom. In a sense, it succeeds. It is indeed a roguelike (with procedurally-generated levels and a need to start from scratch with each death), and it has the violence and manic action…

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Reviews

Review: Super Mega Baseball 4 (Nintendo Switch)

June 7, 2023

What is it with sports video games and card-based modes being the focus? I do understand that sports and cards go together…

Review: Jack Jeanne (Nintendo Switch)

June 6, 2023

Have you ever played a game that feels like it was designed specifically for you? Jack Jeanne is just that to me.…

Review: Nightmare Reaper (Nintendo Switch)

June 5, 2023

Nightmare Reaper aims to be a blend of roguelike and nostalgic throwback to the “boomer shooter” era of Doom. In a sense,…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews the Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection on Nintendo Switch

Review: Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection (Nintendo Switch)

June 1, 2023

The original Etrian Odyssey, released in 2007, was something of a lifeline for the dungeon crawler genre. At least as far as…

Videos

Podcast-in-Video: Sequels – what makes a good one?

June 2, 2023

With The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, we got a truly exceptional sequel (and game). But it hasn’t been completely…

Podcast-in-Video: Narrative & making game stories more accessible

June 2, 2023

One of the many things that we’re looking forward to seeing in Final Fantasy XVI is how it handles storytelling, because it…

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

June 1, 2023

There’s one absolutely massive game releasing this month that we’re all very excited for, but it is by no means the only…

Podcast-in-Video: What the heck is wrong with AAA games?

May 11, 2023

One of the interesting things about this year has been the contrast between AAA-remakes (think Resident Evil 4) that have been really…

Interviews

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Dark Tokyo: An interview with Cherrymochi

April 12, 2023

Cherrymochi hasn’t been around all that long – this Japanese-based developer only has one published game so far. But what a game…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!?

Podcast-in-Video: An in-depth chat with Lached Up Games

January 12, 2023

We had a special guest on the Digitally Uploaded podcast this month – Lachlan, from Lached Up Games! He’s been on the…

DigitallyDownloaded.net interviews visual novel developer, Ebi-hime

Interview: On being the most prolific indie VN author

January 10, 2023

Ebi-hime is one of the most inspiring VN authors. Specialising in two very niche genres – Yuri and “Grim” VNs, the creator…

DigitallyDownloaded.net interviews the Aussie creators of Murder Drones

On the Aussies making a major web animated series

December 2, 2022

We’ve got something a little different for you today – we don’t often do interviews with folks from outside of the games…

Gadgets

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews the HyperX Cloud III headset

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June 5, 2023

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Gadget review: HyperX Cloud III Headphones

There’s absolutely no shortage of affordably-priced gaming headsets on the market. For not that much money, you can pick up a wired set with some kind of flexible microphone, a braided cord and an aggressive-looking logo on the earcups. Which is all well and great, but I have a very specific problem with most gaming headphones. It’s the comfort level,…

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The Asus ROG Ally is a heck of a handheld console

The high-end gaming handheld market is really heating up. The Steam Deck kicked the fad off, but it has since been joined by the likes of the Ayaneo series, the Anbernic W600 and, now, the Asus ROG Ally. Despite its ridiculous name, after getting hands-on time with the Ally, I…

The Retroid Pocket Flip is the perfect travel buddy for retro fans

Now that we’ve got devices like the Steam Deck and the Ayaneo…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews Soundcore VR P10 earbuds

Gadget review: VR P10 gaming earbuds

I was very impressed with my first experience with Soundcore earbuds when…