News by Lindsay M., News Editor 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 with us (and our favourite news…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Japan’s CERO – the organisation that provides age ratings to video games – has announced that it will be closing for a minimum of one month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While this is absolutely the right thing to do (STAY. AT. HOME. FOLKS), it…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Just a few weeks ago I went to Warehouse Kawasaki in Kawasaki city – a city sandwiched between Tokyo itself, and Yokohama. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do for many years, based on what I had heard of it, but never previously had the opportunity…
Read MoreBook review by Matt S. “The hurt ones were quiet; no one wept, much less screamed in pain; no one complained; none of the many who died did so noisily; not even the children cried; very few people even spoke. And when Father Kleinsorge gave water to some whose faces…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. You can learn a lot about a culture from the games that it plays. I’m not just talking about video games here (though, obviously, I’m a big advocate for Japanese video games as well), but rather the traditional board and card games that predate video games.…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. There’s been a lot said and written about Astral Chain’s use of police as the heroes. From major publications (Polygon and Vice) through to blogs, and then on to social media, the question of why PlatinumGames would lionise the police seems to be a core concern…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. NHK World isn’t anything new, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually written about it on DDNet in the past. As it’s something I watch religiously – more than I even watch Netflix, let alone free-to-air TV – I figured that I should remedy that. So…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the biggest challenges in writing about Japan – its art, artists, and country – is something you likely don’t think about much. It’s the syntax for the names. Because in Japan, they’re reversed – in other words the format for names is to put…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. In the latest installment of Hollywood’s ongoing efforts to make everything in history about America, it is now making a film about the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima… and in a move that will surprise absolutely no one, it’s also making that film all about a…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Doraemon is one of those Japanese institutions that has never quite translated overseas. A blue cat with a pocket that gives him access to anything he might imagine, Doraemon and his group of lovable child buddies gave gone on innumerable manga, anime, and film adventures, as…
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