You would think fashion was an easy concept for video games. I mean, sure there won’t be visceral bloodletting (though a catwalk fighting game would be amazing…), but fashion lends itself to collectability, which is how many games keep players invested, and who doesn’t like playing dress-up with pretty characters?…
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Just about everyone who knows me knows there’s nothing that I love more than a good, mysterious FMV game. D’Avekki Studios has become a developer that I trust, developing four phenomenal games from 2017’s The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker to this year’s Murderous Muses. It is basically tailor-made to…
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There’s simulators for just about everything these days: powerwashing, farming, running an animal rescue, village development… take your pick. There’s something I’ve never done, though: drive a taxi. (Okay, so I’ve done in by picking up fares in Grand Theft Auto, but that doesn’t count.) And that could change very…
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I’ve been quite excited for office romance otome visual novel Sympathy Kiss to launch in the West; it first launched in Japan in 2022, and in July of this year it was announced to be coming West in 2024. The game follows a woman at her job for a mobile…
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It is interesting to compare the recently-released remake of Star Ocean The Second Story R with the upcoming Super Mario RPG remake. Both games are undeniably classics, and highly influential – Without Super Mario RPG proving that Mario works as an RPG hero we would never have had Paper Mario…
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It was inevitable that Yakuza 6 would not be the end of Kazuma Kiryu. It should have been, since it finished the series in spectacular fashion. However, this is the video game industry, and when you’ve got a bankable star, you keep returning to that well until enough people get…
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In among all the big games releasing in November (seriously, just check out the “games of the month” list), we found some time to muse on what to expect from the Nintendo Switch successor this month. Surely the console is reaching the end of its life, and surely Nintendo is…
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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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Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet may have had an iffy launch, but there’s no denying that people are playing the game. Its first DLC, The Hidden Treasures of Area Zero Part 1: The Teal Mask, was released in September. Part 2: The Indigo Disk was always set to launch before…
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Battle Champs is a F2P RTS game that was available for four years (from 2015 to 2019). In Battle Champs, players built and strengthened bases, then teamed up with others to attack enemy fortifications. So why am I talking about this dead game? It was actually the predecessor to casual…
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