Mike Bithell is one of our favourite independent developers, and that’s despite only having created one game to date. But what a game. Thomas Was Alone is a masterpiece in narrative and storytelling, puzzle design, and aesthetic style. It’s a game that’s made its way to almost every platform out…
Read MoreSlitherine has just released a new Napoleonic wargame, called Scourge of War: Warterloo. It’s a timely release, too, because on June 18, it will be the 200th anniversary of one of the most famous military battles of all time (the actual Battle of Waterloo). To tie into that, Slitherine and…
Read MoreLooks like someone at Koei Tecmo made a mistake and hit the “publish” button on a trailer too soon; eagle-eyed people of the Internet noticed a trailer for a Hyrule Warriors on Nintendo 3DS title. Related reading: Our review of Hyrule Warriors on the Nintendo Wii U. The video has…
Read MoreDigital Eclipse is a name that the older game players out there will likely remember; it was a publisher that focused on remaking arcade games and the like at the time where arcade games were a big deal. It was absorbed into Backbone Entertainment in 2003, and the brand disappeared.…
Read MoreTime’s a-tickin’, people. If you’re a fan of wargames, strategy games, historical games, war-strategy games, historical-war-strategy games, or any of those words in any combination, get yourself over to the Humble Bundle site right now. This very minute. Why such unseemly haste? It’s because the Humble Weekly bundle has been…
Read MoreOne of the most exciting announcements from Koei Tecmo recently has been that it is finally localising a Nobunaga’s Ambition game. After a very long wait from the last English Nobunaga’s Ambition, Sphere of Influence is landing on our PlayStation 4s in September, and we can’t wait. Sphere of Influence…
Read MoreDragon Quest is a big deal in Japan. A very big deal. For example, there’s a reason that there’s that popular urban rumour that the Japanese government outlawed the release of a Dragon Quest game on a school/ work day: each new “proper” game in the series really does sell…
Read MoreI’ve been doing Digitally Downloaded for a couple of years now, and the site has achieved some truly significant things in that time. It has grown, been listed on Metacritic and Game Rankings, and then grown some more. It has also reached the point where we really do need additional…
Read MoreImage & Form has released 3DS-specific screenshots of its upcoming cross-many-platforms 2D strategy game, SteamWorld Heist. One look at them will be enough to convince you that this will be the superior version. As you can see from the screenshots below, SteamWorld Heist on the 3DS makes heavy use of…
Read MoreArmello, the Australian-developed digital boardgame that is best thought of as a cross between the Animals of Farthing Wood and Civilization, is inbound to console. Previously a PC-only release, the game has players choose a character from one of a couple of different animal clans, and then compete to take…
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