Review by Matt S. The Olympics is one of my favourite events when it rolls around every fourth year. It’s an opportunity to get right into sports I don’t normally get to watch, and, with fond memories of the Sydney Olympics back in 2000, I also get a nostalgic rush…
Read MoreThe nice people at Nintendo have provided us with a copy of the superb (seriously, our review is coming, but it is superb) Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE for the Nintendo Wii U. But that’s not all! It’s not just the game we have to give away, but the Fortissimo Edition,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you’ve never played a Rhythm Heaven game before, the upcoming Megamix will be the perfect opportunity to remedy that. A compilation of the best minigames from all the previous Rhythm Heaven titles, Megamix is promising a lot of gameplay for your buck. There’s 100 odd…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Time to be really controversial here: I prefer Yo-Kai Watch to Pokemon. There, I said it. That’s not to suggest that I don’t like Pokemon, because I absolutely to, but Yo-Kai Watch has is far more in tune with the kind of Japanese culture and humour…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We really weren’t anticipating all that much from Nintendo at E3 this year. Yep, of course it was going to make a splash with Zelda, and there’s always interest in Pokemon, but we already knew about these games. And who actually needs to see Pokemon in…
Read MoreReview by Sam M. Kirby has never been that kind of platformer that I would normally gravitate towards to. Something about the pink puffball, who can so easily inhale enemies and steal their powers, seemed almost villainous to me. More seriously, something that always put me off Kirby was the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We knew that Nintendo would have a thin showing at E3 this year – the company admitted as much well before the show by confirming that it would not have the NX ready to show there. Related reading: Matt’s review of the excellent The Legend of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Not long ago Nintendo announced that it was selling its majority stake in the Seattle Mariners, a team worth $1.5 billion. At the time, people wondered what the money was for as, for all the company’s issues with the Wii U and the establishment of its…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. This review’s a little late, but that’s okay, because I wanted to use it as an opportunity to explore the response that Star Fox Zero got from quarters of the game criticism community. So it’s going to be an unconventional review, but hey, most of you…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly news feature, Catch-up coffee Monday. Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and…
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