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Nintendo; here’s how you can keep your hardware business and also profit from iOS devices

July 30, 2013

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Once again Nintendo has felt the need to dismiss the suggestion that it should develop a smartphone business. As we can see in this news report, Nintendo’s now claiming that putting games on iOS would somehow dilute its brand value. I question the validity of the report, as the quote…

screens-please-just-release-drakengard

July 30, 2013

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This game has caught several eyes around here. Nier was a favourite among the staff, and there are enough similarities in Drakengard 3 to pique a lot of interest among us. Probably the biggest question I have is if this title will release outside of Japan or not. Currently, the…

Review: Dynasty Warriors 8 (PS3)

July 30, 2013

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The Dynasty Warriors franchise has fascinated me, from a gaming culture point of view. Here is a game that in its homeland of Japan consistently rates both with the critics and on the charts, and yet when it is released in the west there is always, inevitably, a vocal group…

Tecmo Koei posts double-digit growth for the first quarter

July 30, 2013

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Tecmo Koei has been one of the more consistently profitable developer/ publishers in Japan in recent years. This trend continues with the company posting a 10.9 per cent year-on-year growth in sales for the first quarter of the financial year. That growth, to 6.5 billion yen, generated the publisher a…

Review: Sky Gamblers: Cold War (iPad)

July 30, 2013

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When you cross technical proficiency, a reasonable level of polish, and feature parity to AAA console releases with uninspired design, you get Sky Gamblers: Cold War. It’s impossible to claim that the game doesn’t give you enough bang for your back; $4.99 gets you a single player mode featuring survival,…

a-nice-new-killer-is-dead-trailer

July 30, 2013

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I know quite a few of us here at Digitally Downloaded are fans of Goichi Suda and have been following the upcoming Killer is Dead closely. We have talked about it in a handful of articles with screenshots, and now we have the latest trailer. This game oozes style –…

Review: Rivals at War 2084 (iPad)

July 29, 2013

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Looking at the screenshots, Rivals at War 2084 (or RAW 2084), could have been a superb game. It looks like it has everything going for it to make for an addictive free-to-play game. It’s got collectable cards, it’s got a neat setting and the promise of team-based arena warfare is…

phil-fish-vs-marcus-beer-sad-indictment

July 29, 2013

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As many in the games community will be aware by now; this weekend brought with it one of the sorriest exchanges in gaming history. GameTrailers’ Marcus Beer decided to take a crack at Fez developer, Phil Fish, over his disdain with the media for asking him his thoughts on the…

Ashes Cricket delayed to the next Ashes competition

July 29, 2013

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As we recently reported, the upcoming Ashes Cricket game had been delayed, and missed a launch window that was pretty critical for the game; the Ashes tournament. Now it looks like whatever bug prevented the game from hitting that launch window was a whopper; the game’s been delayed to the…

Review: Earthbound (Wii U)

July 29, 2013

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I had never had the opportunity to play Earthbound before. That’s not from lack of desire to experience it, but being Australian means that I miss out on all kinds of classic RPGs (and a bunch of modern ones as well) that people rave about. However, Earthbound was an especially…

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