Review by Harvard L. ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS comes from Radial Games, an indie team responsible for Monster Loves You and sharing some developers with the studio that made Fantastic Contraption. The game is a couch-competitive duelling game about weaponised rockets dogfighting it out to be the last one standing. As far as…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In Australia, climate change is hitting our farmers hard. Prolonged drought, ruined crops… it’s not a pleasant time to be a farmer across much of the country. That’s something that most of us don’t think about much. We live comfortably in cities where agriculture is almost…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Many years ago now, when DigitallyDownloaded.net was itself a pretty new site itself (2012), one of the first games that I really got hooked on, in the context of what I was doing with the site, was a humble little iOS tactics game called Call of…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. The LEGO games have come a long way from TT Game’s first LEGO Star Wars back on the PlayStation 2. With many adventures had and many to come, I think the first title that I have really looked forward to is this one. Being an original…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Colin Thiele’s Storm Boy is a book taught in primary schools across Australia. It’s a touching story of a boy living with his reclusive father on the wild South Australian coastline, and his interactions with the natural environment. I have fond memories of this story as…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I write this review through the groggy haze that comes when you don’t get enough sleep. For the last three nights I’ve got to bed no earlier than 4am, playing Civilization VI on the Nintendo Switch well later than I had meant to, only to get…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Hitman is one of those rare few “triple-A” blockbusters that doesn’t treat its players like idiots. And that’s why I like it. Smart and snappy, with a blend of dry and dark humour, Hitman 2 is a fine continuation of the series, and proof that the…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. The current generation of consoles has become host to a constant barrage of remastered, remade, and upscaled games from the 1990s and beyond. Classics such as Crash Bandicoot, BioShock, Final Fantasy and all those Wii U titles that never sold well because the console was a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. “They did what to my precious Pokémon Blue/Red/Yellow?!?” I was not amused with the news that Nintendo’s glorious high-definition remaster of the game of my childhood was using the same gimmicky and dull monster catching minigame of Pokémon Go on mobile. Pokémon Blue is a precious memory to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. When you boil a tennis video game down to its most basic components, you get Pong. One of the very first video games ever made was, effectively, a simulation of bouncing a ball back and forth across a court, with the goal being to get that…
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