Aussie readers of DDNet, have we got a treat for you! (Note: this competition is only open to Australian residents. Apologies, overseas friends, but I’m sure we’ll have another contest for you soon) Stranger Of Paradise is one of the finest, and smartest, games in Square Enix’s storied series. As we wrote in our 4.5/5 review: Do you know that…
Review by Matt S. RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of my pet loves. Right back from the release of the original in 1999, it has been a series of pure wish fulfillment; after all, who doesn’t want to build and manage a theme park? It also had a wicked sense of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Keep is a real-time dungeon crawler with a very old-school sensibility to it. It revels in the simplistic, retro B-grade narrative and design that it brings to the table, and is just self-aware enough to have fun with it. It’s the kind of game that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Nameko – “Funghi” in the west – is one of those odd success stories in Japan in which a character design has become so popular that the character has become famous simply for existing. While the popularity that drives Nameko is a little foreign to the…
Read MoreReview by Lee F. Mech Rage is a neat arcade title that seems at home on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a top-down shooter with responsive controls where you move from room to room clearing out baddies to progress to the next, collecting currency along the way to change and upgrade…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s the first catch-up coffee for the year! 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…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. What a Christmas gift Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition (hereafter DW8:XL) was from Koei Tecmo. Series fans that didn’t enjoy what Koei did with Dynasty Warriors 9 got a reminder that just one edition before, the developer produced one of the finest action games…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Late last year, news emerged that a man in Japan had held a wedding for himself and Hatsune Miku – as in, the vocaloid-cum-digital superstar that we all know well in video games thanks to the sublime Project Diva series. Because this story fed the “weird…
Read MoreOpinion by Harvard L. Yesterday, in my Smash Bros. burnout, I decided to revisit Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles on the Switch because I thought it would be one that could relax me. Unfortunately, stepping back into Yonder after a break was confusing at first – I dropped into the…
Read MoreWe survived, and it’s now 2019! It’s time to look forward to the year ahead. The whole DigitallyDownloaded.net team would like to wish everything the very best New Year – we hope it’s a year of great success and happiness for you all. From the game industry side of things,…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Overall, 2018 has been an exceptional year for video games. From January right through to the end of December, there has been such an incredible stream of quality releases on all platforms that it has been incredibly difficult to keep up. Below you’ll find a list…
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