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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…

Review: Handball 16 (Sony PlayStation Vita)

November 30, 2015

Handball/Handball 16/PlayStation Vita/Reviews/Sony PlayStation Vita/sports game/Vita Review

I really wanted to like Handball 16. As (as far as I can tell) the first attempt at recreating the sport through the videogame medium, and as a long-suffering fan of the sport (believe me, in Australia it’s as difficult to watch or play the sport as it was previously…

DDNet Game of the Year Awards 2015! Xbox One Game of the Year

November 30, 2015

awards/Awards 2015/Beyond Eyes/DDNet/Life is Strange/Microsoft Xbox One/Ori and the Blind Forest

This year – 2015 – has been one of the finest years for games ever. The new console really hit their strides, and we saw some superb games really start to leverage the power that they offered. At the same time, the independent developers really started to break out and…

Realistic space strategy game Tharsis is coming next year

November 29, 2015

Choice Provisions/Gaijin Games/News/RTS/Tharsis

Formerly known as Gaijin Games and best known for their involvement in the now-iconic BIT.TRIP series of music-infused action games, the indie company is busy with their current project, titled Tharsis – this time under the new company name of Choice Provisions. The reason behind the change was due to…

Tin Man Games releases a subscription-model choosable-path adventure app

November 29, 2015

Apple Watch/Choices: And The Sun Went Out/iOS/iPad/iPhone/News/Tin Man Games

Tin Man Games usually releases premium (paid) apps, but they are changing that up with the now-available Choices: And The Sun Went Out for iOS. It is playable on iPhone, iPad, and even Apple Watch. Related reading: Tin Man Games announces Warhammer 40k gamebook trilogy. Choices: And The Sun Went…

Catch-up coffee Monday: November 30

November 29, 2015

art book/Attack on Titan/catch-up coffee monday/News/pokemon picross/Rise of the Tomb Raider/Total War: ATTILA

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! Pokemon Picross coming to 3DS…

The Friday Ten: Looking back at ten of the best PSP titles

November 27, 2015

Dead or Alive Paradise/Dissidia/Friday 10s/Harvest Moon/Persona/PSP/Tactics Ogre/The Friday 10/The Lord of the Rings/Valhalla Knights/Valkyria Chronicles II/Warriors Orochi/White Knight

The PSP was a beast of a console. As with its successor, the PlayStation Vita, the PSP went through its life being quite under appreciated (and unsupported) in the west (and by western developers), but the Japanese loved it, so the Japanese developers used it as an opportunity to cheaply…

Looking back at Dead or Alive Paradise

November 27, 2015

Dead or Alive/Dead or Alive Paradise/Koei Tecmo/looking back/PlayStation Portable/PlayStation Vita/PSP

With the controversy that has erupted around Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 this week (specifically, the fallout from the announcement that it would not be released out west), I felt it was also a good time to look at one of its predecessors, to try and unpack why the series…

DDNet Game of the Year Awards 2015! PlayStation Vita Game of the Year

November 26, 2015

awards/Awards 2015/Corpse Party: Blood Drive/Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls/DDNet/Persona 4: Dancing All Night

Review: Tenshu General (PC)

November 26, 2015

Indie Game/PC/PC Review/Reviews/RTS/Strategy/Tenshu General

Tenshu General is a real time strategy game modelled after tabletop wargames like Risk, set in the Edo era of Japan and featuring up to four players simultaneously vying for superiority. Developed by Dutch indie studio Smart Game Studio B.V., Tenshu General is a slow paced RTS focused more on…

Review: Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Second Chapter (PC)

November 26, 2015

JRPG/PC/PC Review/Reviews/The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky/The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter

Fans of the series have been waiting for a long time for the localisation of the second chapter of Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. Having announced only a week prior to its release that it was finally here, the Second Chapter has been made digitally available on both…

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