Review by Matt S. We talk a lot about Japanese games on DDNet. You might have noticed that. But there are Japanese games, developed by Japanese game developers, and then there are Japanese games that are Japanese, in the sense that they designed specifically around the Japanese cultural experience, tapping…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The unfortunate reality about the entire “Diablo clone” genre is that it’s impossible to make a top-down perspective, loot-heavy, narrative-light game without having your game compared to Diablo. It’s right there in the genre title. Most games – in fact, almost all games, do not come…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. I’ve always played racing games the wrong way. Always wanting to push the boundaries of what I was allowed to do, I found myself pushing cars all around the track in TOCA Touring Cars, handbraking into other cars in Gran Turismo to fly around corners at…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. As I sit down to review The Town of Light, a wave of extreme pressure is washing over me. Not only are the topics tackled in this walking simulator extremely heavy, the events are based on documented cases at a real European asylum (Volterra) early in…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Thea: The Awakening looks like it should be an indie take on Civilization. It’s got the same hexagonal map design, and you’re looking down on villages and units of characters from an omnipresent point of view that looks every bit the Civilization clone. That in itself…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Why Sony insisted on restricting its major E3 stage show to an hour of the nonsense blockbuster stuff is a mystery that will be lost to time, but that doesn’t mean the PlayStation 4 is lacking for quality at the show by any means. One great…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. Hello again everybody, and welcome back to Digitally Downloaded’s coverage of E3 2017! Today’s last press conference is the one I know I’ve been most eager for: Sony. The conference took place at 6 p.m. PST on Monday, June 12 at E3 in Los Angeles. My…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. Anyone who grew up in the 90’s will surely remember Power Rangers. I know I loved it when I was a kid. I owned action figures, clothes, VHS tapes, and, of course, the video games. I was a huge fan. Back then I was too young…
Read MoreReview by Lachlan W. To me, “walking simulator” will never be a derogatory term. For someone who values story over all else in games, I appreciate the narrative purity of walking simulators. The Fidelio Incident, by Act 3 Games, is the latest entry into the genre on PC. But does…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In the absence of Nintendo’s F-Zero series (c’mon Nintendo, surely you know how much people want that one), Sony’s had close to the monopoly on super high speed anti-gravity racing with WipeOut. Now, WipeOut Omega Collection might not be a new game, per se, but bringing…
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