News by Lindsay M. My favourite casual mobile game received an update today. While it’s mostly just a good marketing ploy for Disney’s newest film, the update keeps the good old (young?) Disney Crossy Road feel alive while providing players with more reasons to return day after day. Related reading:…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. This morning brought some sad news indeed for Disney fans, with the company opting to discontinue development on its Disney Infinity franchise, and close down the developer behind that series, Avalanche Studios. Related reading: Matt’s review of Disney Infinity 2.0. There is saturation in the collectibles…
Read MoreList by Lindsay M. Disney Crossy Road has been out for a couple weeks now, and I can say with ease I have spent far too much of my time tapping and flicking those gosh darn cute pixellated Disney characters to their deaths. The game is essentially a reskinned Crossy…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We love Crossy Road at DigitallyDownloaded.net. It’s fun, it’s light hearted, it’s challenging, and it’s adorable. It became our Apple TV game of the year last year when we discovered that it is also a lot of fun in multiplayer. Related reading: The Aussies behind this…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Aussie developers at Hipster Whale have really struck on to a good thing with Crossy Road. Not only is it one of the most addictive and entertaining games on mobile devices, but it remains one of the best games on the Apple TV (complete with…
Read MoreAs I mentioned last week, a typhoon that came through Japan left us all a little… wet. The day before it got too wet to even leave the house, though, was the day that I had a trip to DisneySea planned. It was still utterly torrential rain conditions, but it…
Read MoreSome good news on a Monday morning for the local games industry, Melbourne-based Torus Games, one of the real veterans of the local industry, has picked up a Developer of the Year award form one of the largest entertainment behemoths in history, Disney. The award comes on the back of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Disney Magical World is an example of a game that takes inspiration from elsewhere, and then does its own thing with from that basis, and in the process becomes something unique and worthy in its own right. Borrowing heavily from the raw concept of Animal Crossing,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I really enjoyed the original Disney Infinity. Despite the expense, I’ve bought as many of the miniatures as I could for the simple fact that I’m a Disney fanatic (in fact, I haven’t even played with them all), and it helped that the game was good…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. In what will be a surprise to no one, Disney’s Skylanders riff, Disney Infinity, is off to a spectacular start. According to a report published on gamesindustry.biz, the company has sold three million starter packs to date. That’s just the starter packs, mind you, not individual…
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