Bandai Namco and RENGAME have announced that action puzzle game Once Upon a Katamari, the first new entry in the Katamari Damacy series in 14 years, will launch for Switch 2 in early October. The Switch game will also receive an update. New paid DLC—Rolling LIVE Highlights—will launch the same…
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During Xbox’s 2026 Partner Preview, AdHoc Studios announced that it would be bringing superhero workplace comedy adventure game Dispatch to Xbox this year. Today, the developer announced a late July launch date for the title. The game is by the writers and directors of games like The Wolf Among Us…
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On the series’ eighth anniversary, Square Enix has announced that HD-2D RPGs Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II will launch in the West for Switch 2 this October. They can be purchased individually digitally and physically, and as a bundle digitally. The main differences between the Nintendo Switch version and…
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I knew that I was in for a mighty slog when the tutorial of Sword Art Online: Echoes of Aincrad, felt like it went for an hour all by itself. What a winding, long-winded, slow-paced dungeon that was. And then the game opens up to become a massive… long-winded, slow-paced…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. 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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Hamster is known for its Console Archives, and the latest title of the series is 1998’s Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. Originally made for 32-bit consoles, the game launched today for PlayStation 5 and Switch 2.…
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Publisher DANGEN Entertainment has announced it will work with Tiago Rech (Teleforum, I Did Not Buy This Ticket) to bring the haunting narrative adventure game I Shall Name the Dead to PC in early 2027. The surreal tale of magical realism puts players in the role of a woman who…
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Digimon is doomed to forever walk in Pokémon’s shadow. Part of the issue is the obvious similarities in the names, but on a superficial pass there are more similarities than that, and Digimon doesn’t always do itself favours there. Both games feature cute anime monsters, but Pokémon’s artists come up…
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Studio Loading, Kibou Entertainment and Alunite Inc. have announced that retro action-puzzle adventure game Orpheus: To Hell and Back, which was originally released as a physical Game Boy Color cartridge, will be launching for PC via Steam next week. Alunite Inc. will publish for that platform. This is the game’s…
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The Blood of Dawnwalker is the latest RPG from Europe. I know that this is a hugely trite thing to write on the surface, but my first impression was overwhelmingly that this new title is dripping in the heritage of everything from Gothic to Witcher, Greedfall to Banishers. And I’m…
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