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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: A-Men (PS3)

August 26, 2013

A-Men/action/Bloober/PlayStation/PlayStation Network Review/PlayStation Vita/PSN/Reviews/Sony PlayStation Network/Vita Review

To be fair, Bloober does try to warn you right out of the gates, as A-Men’s description calls it out as a title geared toward “hardcore gamers”, and describes it as a strategy title. I initially was thinking more tactical/combat/war strategy than puzzle strategy, but upon firing this title up…

Project Phoenix: One Kickstarter to watch

August 23, 2013

Creative Intelligence Arts/Interview/Interviews/JRPG/kickstarter/Nobuo Uematsu/Project Phoenix

I don’t often support Kickstarter projects. As far as I’m concerned it’s still an unproven service and frightening in how little it holds the people that run the projects to account. But every so often a project with real potential emerges that would not have been possible in any sense…

Review: Disney Infinity (Wii U)

August 22, 2013

action/Disney/Disney Infinity/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/platformer/Reviews/Wii U

When it came time to head down to the local game store and pick up my copy of Disney Infinity, the only platform that made sense to me was the Nintendo Wii U. Not because the Gamepad is used in any special way (it isn’t), but for the same reason…

Review: Shelter (PC)

August 22, 2013

adventure game/Indie/Indie Game/Might and Delight/PC/review/Reviews/Survival

When developer Might and Delight decided it wanted to do something different coming off its successful release of the demanding platformer that is Pid, it wasn’t joking. With the gaming industry so overly saturated with shooters and retro, well, everything (including shooters), – where does an indie developer turn to…

Review: Game of Watchcraft: Spawn of Squishy (iPad)

August 22, 2013

Apple/demake/Game of Watchcraft/iOS/iPad/MMO/Retro/Reviews

Consider this for a minute – if you deconstruct a game to its very core you’ll get something that is perhaps more primitive than we’d like to admit. For all the progress that we claim the games industry has made, the ideas behind the games we are playing are as…

Review: Europa Universalis IV (PC)

August 22, 2013

Europa Universalis/Europa Universalis IV/grand strategy/PC/Reviews/Strategy

For the past week my sleep has been badly affected. In fact, for the first time since I was at university and in the habit of putting off writing essays that I had three months to do for the night before they were due, I have found myself going completely…

Minecraft as narrative; one of the great misunderstandings in gaming

August 21, 2013

Art/Minecraft/narrative/Opinion

All these years later, there’s still a lot of chatter about Minecraft around the Internet, and indeed it still sells like hotcakes; it’s sitting right at the top of the retail sales charts in some regions and on many iOS app stores it has settled comfortably into a permanent top-5…

Reminder: Please fill in our readers survey!

August 21, 2013

digitallydownloaded.net/readers survey/survey

Every so often (once every six months or so) we like to do a brief readers survey, to continue ensuring that we can provide the very best content and service that we can manage. The survey only takes a couple of moments to fill out, and will provide us with…

Brutal Gamer News Wrap: 8/21/13

August 21, 2013

Atlus/Bitmap Bros/Brutal Gamer News Wrap/Nintendo/PS4

The PS4 finally has a release date, there’s way more of a reason to own a Vita, the eShop welcomes a sale on Atlus games and The Chaos Engine returns for PC. Big PS4 news drops at Gamescom As expected, Sony announced the release date for it’s upcoming fourth PlayStation…

Review: Thunder Wolves (PS3)

August 21, 2013

action/flight sim/PlayStation/PlayStation Network Review/PS3 Review/PSN/Reviews/Sony PlayStation Network/Thunder Wolves

Thunder Wolves comes out of the gates, all of its guns blazing. It makes not apologies for being what it is: an shooting title that looks and sounds like it would be right at home with a buddy action movie from the 80’s. The V8 Ninja wrote up a nice…

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