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July 30, 2022

Competition

LAST CHANCE! Win one of FIVE RIG 800 PRO headsets & Stranger Of Paradise (+DLC)

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…

psychological horror

Why I can’t review Martha is Dead

I don’t believe topics should be ignored in games, but I do believe that certain issues need to be handled delicately; things like mental illness, sexual assault, and war are not topics to be taken lightly. LKA is, to me, best known for approaching some very sensitive topics in The…

Review: Elex II (Sony PlayStation 5)

I’m not sure there’s ever a precisely right time to release a…

Review: Gran Turismo 7 (Sony PlayStation 5)

I really wish I loved anything as much as Yamauchi Kazunori loves…

why-trophies-and-achievements-are-best

February 15, 2016

Opinion/Trophies

I’d like to start by saying that I love trophies. I love achievements. I’m kind of addicted to them. The sound of a trophy popping gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside that satisfies a craving I never thought I had before. Yep, you could even go so far as…

Review: Dogchild (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 15, 2016

Animatoon/Dario Avalos Modio/Dogchild/Indie/parkour/platformer/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/Spain/Stealth

Dogchild tells the story of a boy named Tarpak and his canine companion, Tarao. When dogs start to go missing, Tarpak and Tarao set out to find what happened to them. The two soon find out that a company called Cornish Inc. may be the ones behind the disappearance of…

Catch-up coffee Monday: February 15

February 14, 2016

Aksys/catch-up coffee monday/News/Quantum Break/Sekai Project/Shiren the Wanderer/Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate/Spike Chunsoft/Twilight Princess HD

Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly news feature, Catch-up coffee Monday. Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week 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 newest news anchor,…

The Friday Ten: The most stupendous, awesome, QTEs in the history of mankind

February 12, 2016

Friday 10s/list/QTE/Quick Time Event/The Friday 10

The term Quick Time Event has become something of a dirty word when it comes to games. Though they’re found in many of the games that we love, there is still a considerable amount of trepidation around the acceptance of this particular innovation, oft-maligned aside other gameplay staples. From the…

Help DDNet improve! Please fill out our 5-minute reader’s survey

February 12, 2016

DDNet/digitallydownloaded.net/readers survey

Hello dear readers! We like to do a reader’s survey a couple of times each year, because it lets us know what our readers come here for, what we’re doing well, what we could do better, and what we could do that we’re not doing already. In other words, we…

Game Theory: What Hatsune Miku teaches us about post-scarcity economic theory

February 12, 2016

economics/Game Theory/Hatsune Miku/Hatsune Miku economics/Opinion/post-scarcity economics

Hatsune Miku isn’t just a cute anime girl that happens to have the voice of a digital angel, and appear in some of the most entertaining rhythm games ever release. No. Think about Miku a little more deeply and she is of interest to a whole host of sociological and…

Play-Asia review: Natsuiro High School: Seisyun Hakusyo

February 11, 2016

Import/Import Review/Natsuiro High School/open world game/Play-Asia/Play-Asia Review/PlayStation 4/PlayStation 4 Review/sexualisation/Tamsoft/upskirt

So, Natsuiro High School is a game in which its sole reason to exist is to give people the chance to skulk around a school and nearby town, with a camera in hand, and equipped with the mad skills necessary to slide under a girl’s skirt and photograph her underwear…

the-museum-of-pixels-just-cause-2

February 11, 2016

Avalanche Studios/Just Cause/Just Cause 2/open world game/The Museum of Pixels

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! This is going to be a semi-regular series which will slowly develop into a digital catalogue of games we at DDNet enjoy, cherish, or find irresistibly interesting. There will be old and new, fast and slow paced, meticulously realistic and unimaginably off the wall –…

Review: The Coma: Cutting Class (PC)

February 11, 2016

Horror/Indie/PC/PC Review/Reviews/South Korea/stalker horror/Survival Horror/The Coma/The Coma: Cutting Class

The Coma acts as a cautionary tale, albeit that of a farfetched one. Overworking school students will lead to a nightmarish hellscape where teachers attack students who fall behind. Yes, it’s a bit of a stretch, but underneath it all it speaks to the harsh conditions and pressures that Korean…

Review: LEGO Marvel’s Avengers (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 10, 2016

action game/Lego/LEGO Marvel's Avengers/PS4 Review/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4/TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Despite the proliferation of LEGO games out there, TT Games has managed to keep the series fresh enough to keep people’s interest year after year. It helps that the different inspirations they take are often wildly different from one another, from Jurassic Park to superheroes, Star Wars and more. LEGO…

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