Now that the dust has settled from the storm that was E3 2013, the time of reflection has begun. The whirlwind between Microsoft and Sony has clearly been topping headlines across major aggregate gaming sites understandably, but not so much so for Nintendo. For better or worse, Nintendo decided to…
Read MoreThe majority of the adventure genre is fittingly moulded around exploration. The most common approach to “exploring” in retro gaming was to utilise trial and error puzzles with ambiguous solutions rather than teach the player intuitively so that the length of the experience could be drawn out. The former approach…
Read MoreInteresting news coming out of Nintendo’s towers; the company is indeed working on a free-to-play title to be release by March 2014. This announcement came out a pre-E3 analyst briefing, and as reported by Nintendo Life it appears to be a concession by the company that this is what needs…
Read MoreWhile we had a couple of issues with Nintendo’s E3 show this year, there was one game that is impossible not to get excited over; Smash Brothers 4. To be released on both 3DS and Wii U the game looks spectacular on both platforms, and there’s a couple of new…
Read MoreI’ve never played mini golf in my life. The closest I’ve been to the real thing has been through video games like Gummy Bears Mini Golf. Unfortunately, video games like Gummy Bears Mini Golf don’t make me want to go out and play the real thing with friends or family……
Read MoreWill you be playing anything else on Wii U this year? 2014. That’s what I heard over and over again in an E3 presentation from Nintendo that promised almost nothing we hadn’t already known about. The good first – Smash Bros (2014) is happening and includes fan favourite, Mega Man,…
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again! E3 is just a few short days away, and naturally that’s all we’re going to be talking about for the next week or so. But what are the Digitally Downloaded team looking forward to the most? Over the next couple of days our team will…
Read MoreIt never ceases to amaze me how games journalists manage to spin a single out of context quote into a click-baiting article, since it rarely leads to a story that provides accurate information to the reader. But it happens, and Ian Livingstone is the latest victim of this “journalistic practice.”…
Read MoreI am not terribly good at bowling, though I enjoy it quite a bit. The running joke on my old bowling league team I was on back in college was that I was our team handicap (four guys throwing around 200 or higher, and me with my rock solid 140……
Read MoreThe original Denpa Men game was a charming, if somewhat shallow dungeon crawler with a cute AR gimmick for acquiring the weird men-things that would do the fighting and adventuring on your behalf. Ultimately it was charming, but lacked the all-important sensation of context to make the adventuring really stand…
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