News by Matt S. When it rains, it pours. Five years ago MMOs were at best a novelty on consoles. Now we’ve got the likes of the brilliant Final Fantasy XIV, and Perfect World is getting in on the action by bringing free-to-play MMO, Neverwinter, to the Xbox One, with…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Served to you on a radiating platter of spectacle from the same staff responsible for the Soul Calibur and Tekken series, Rise of Incarnates is a free-to-play PC fighting game predicted to release later in 2014. But before the game is unleashed upon the battle-ready populace,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Japanese game development favourite, GUST, has been shut up as a business as part of Koei Tecmo’s acquisition of the company. But don’t worry, the GUST developers will continue to do what they have always been doing – it’s just that they’ll be doing it as…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. This is a couple of days old now, but I know we have quite a few Dead or Alive 5 fans at Digitally Downloaded, so I thought I’d highlight this – Koei Tecmo has picked the winners of its recent “design a costume competition.” Dead or…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. NISA like to keep us busy. Come November we’re going to be very, very busy playing Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord, which is a seriously good looking strategy JRPG. The plot seems to be very traditional JRPG fair. Players take on the story…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Tin Man Games, the specialist in digital gamebooks (no, seriously, if you haven’t checked them out yet this developer releases these things at a prolific rate and they are almost always excellent), has expanded beyond the written word. Its upcoming gamebook Appointment with F.E.A.R is a…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. In the Mass Effect series, Liara was my leading lady. My Commander Shepard, in spite of all the temptations and opportunities to flirt or fornicate with his beautiful and talented (and sometimes psychotic) shipmates, remained – throughout the entire trilogy – faithful to his well-spoken Psionic…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. For you fortunate women and men among us who’ve taken the loyal initiative, gambolled into the electronics department of a local conglomerate or mom-and-pop shop, and thoughtfully (or thoughtlessly, depending on your priorities and financial situation) purchased, with an irresistible voice that was a combination of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It seems that after the success that Telltale Games has had with episodic games, other developers have been inspired to mirror the release style. One such developer is Australia’s own Epiphany Games, which has announced a six-part episodic role-playing thriller. This is set in an alternate…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Most people in developed cultures don’t acknowledge death as a prospect. The thought of one day losing our existence, our accidental privilege to experience worldly occurrences through our tailored perspective, terrifies the optimism right out of our trembling vertebrae. And because of this fear, we avoid…
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