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Show Report: EB Games Expo 2013 (+ gallery)

October 7, 2013

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Article by Matt S. As you would have seen on the site, Digitally Downloaded attended the EB Games Expo that took place over the weekend. The event gave us a chance to play the upcoming games and consoles, and gave us the opportunity to mingle with other gaming fans from…

Review: Dragon’s Crown (PS3)

October 7, 2013

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Review by Matt S. It’s been a wait for people in Europe and Australia, but one of the more controversial games this year has finally been released. Dragon’s Crown is controversial, not because of how it plays, but for its art style. That’s probably just as well because I can’t…

Hands on with Ryse: Son of Rome

October 7, 2013

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Preview by Owen S. One game that really stood out for me at the EB Expo 2013 was a launch title for the Xbox One; Ryse: Son of Rome A cinematic action adventure title that Microsoft seems to be heavily relying on to sell consoles, the expectations of this remarkable…

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII-3; Getting hands on with Lightning

October 7, 2013

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A convention is never a good environment to trial a game that is likely to last 50 or so hours. If I had played a random 20 minutes of Final Fantasy XIII I would never have been inspired to pick up the final game, and that would have been a…

Idea Factory International’s CEO on Sony, working with NISA and censorship

October 6, 2013

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Article by Matt S. It’s a piece of news that was largely overlooked by the mainstream games press: Idea Factory, better known in the west as “the owner of that Compile Heart developer that makes those weird Hyperdimension Neptunia games,” has set up an office in the US. For fans…

Gallery: Cosplayers at EB Games Expo 2013

October 5, 2013

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Ah cosplayers. No gaming, anime or movie convention would be quite the same without them. This year I must say there were fewer cosplayers hanging around the EB Games Expo than there was last year, but the Just Cos cosplay competition that is a major part of the event drew…

Hands on with the Xbox One; iteration, not revolution

October 5, 2013

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After having a really good time with the PlayStation 4 and the spirit in which Sony has been courting original game ideas and independent developers, I was a little taken back by Microsoft’s booth at the EB Games Expo 2013. While the Xbox One is undoubtedly a powerful console, it’s…

Review: Shadowrun Returns (iPad)

October 4, 2013

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Review by Matt S. Shadowrun is a legendary RPG, both in terms of the pen-and-paper tabletop game and the original console release a few generations ago. When a certain big publisher decided that the ‘reboot’ of Shadowrun would be yet another generic FPS and managed to annoy the long time…

Preview: Drive Club (PlayStation 4)

October 4, 2013

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There’s quite a bit riding on Drive Club. This is the game that Sony is essentially “packing in” with the PlayStation 4. When you consider that the only way to play online multiplayer is to have the PSPlus membership, and Drive Club is the first “free game” that’s on offer…

Preview: Blast ‘Em Bunnies (PlayStation 4)

October 3, 2013

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Preview by Matt S. Three months ago, if you had have told me that my most anticipated PlayStation 4 game would be a indie title from a tiny Australian development team, I would have laughed at you. And yet, in the absence of a concrete announcement that Kadokawa Games’ Natural…

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