News by Lindsay M.Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)! New…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. One of the more enjoyable horror experiments in recent years has been the Dark Pictures Anthology. Developer, Supermassive Games, committed itself to a series of horror experience that shares some things in common – a cinematic approach to horror and some standard gameplay conventions – while…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Little Hope is Supermassive Games’ second in its Dark Pictures horror anthology. Released just in time for Halloween (of course), it’s a spooky couple of hours of classic horror fun, and if you enjoyed the developer’s previous efforts (Until Dawn or Man of Medan), then you’ll…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Supermassive Games has a house style which is immediately recognisable and comfortably niche. The team makes slasher games: just like a slasher film, but with quick-time-events and moral choices which determine who lives and who dies. After the runaway success of Until Dawn, Supermassive set up…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We’re getting closer to the release of Little Hope, the second in the Dark Pictures horror anthology by Supermassive Games (the first being Man of Medan). To get people good and excited, Supermassive Games has released a trailer for the new game, as well as some…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Man of Medan is the latest narrative horror experience from the development team behind Until Dawn… and it’s a classy, smart, deeply enjoyable horror game. In this video I look at some of the qualities that make it such an enjoyable game – no plot spoilers,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. A decrepit old haunted ship in the middle of the ocean is one of the most well-worn environment settings in horror history. Ever since the rumours of the Flying Dutchman spellbound audiences centuries ago, the ghost ship has been an easy go-to for horror storytellers, so…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Until Dawn was certainly a highlight for Supermassive Games, the UK-based developer that wasn’t overly well known before it. A slick homage to the teen slasher horror of the 80’s and 90’s, it wasn’t perfect, but it was one of the key earlier releases in the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Under a very, very specific set of circumstances, Bravo Team can be good. If you’ve got one of those PlayStation Aim gun peripherals (the ones that shipped with the excellent Farpoint last year), and you’re willing and able to play online multiplayer with someone else who…
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