Mere days ago, I was whining about how a new trailer for Cupid Parasite: Sweet and Spicy Darling didn’t quite make up for the lack of a known release date. Someone somewhere must have heard my cries, because today Idea Factory International announced the game’s release date. It also dropped…
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I absolutely love detective games featuring strong, smart women. I think there aren’t enough of them… but that could just be me. Hauma – A Detective Noir Story fits in this category. It launched for PC last September but I was never sure it would come to consoles, until today…
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We need more art in games. Period. There is an entire world of the fine arts just begging to become someone’s inspiration, but instead it feels like new game releases just repeat its genre’s common formula with a new skin. That is what makes me so excited about puzzle platformer…
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With the cost of living what it is, premium-grade luxuries like sound equipment are surely one of the things that people are choosing to go without. Meanwhile, mid-quality sound equipment, which gets close enough without breaking the bank, must surely be enjoying a renaissance. After all, in a world this…
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I’m not going to lie: when Dollhouse first launched in 2019, it wasn’t exactly to large amount of fanfare. Or, you know, any. The game looked really promising (see an early trailer here) but there were minimal reviews for it: on Metacritic, it has a total of three ratings for…
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Idea Factory International seems to be right on schedule with its launch of Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution in the West. The game was first released in Japan during August 2023, and at that time we already knew that the title was set for a Western launch in 2024. Earlier this…
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Have you hit a wall in Final Fantasy XIV Online? No narrative left to play? Level capped at 90? The good news is that it is time to head westward in the game’s fifth expansion, Dawntrail. There’s new stuff aplenty: areas, tribes, level cap increase, core battle content, dungeons, threats……
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Legend of Legacy is one of the many 3DS titles that deserved to be preserved for hardware that wasn’t dated to a single console. Thankfully, now it has been. This was always a lovely-looking and well-designed, classically-styled JRPG. Now it has not only been preserved across multiple platforms, but it…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. With each issue I 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)!…
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Princess Peach must be a difficult character to work with now. Originally she was the archetypal damsel in distress, which made for a convenient single-line narrative to power Super Mario Bros., but that trope hasn’t done so well over time. Where Princess Zelda has been relatively easy to empower without…
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