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July 2, 2013

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The big news from today was that Microsoft’s former President of Interactive Entertainment, Don Mattrick, would be making the move from the American giant to join the struggling social gaming developer and publisher, Zynga, as its CEO. This is obviously a big win for Zynga, which has been hit by…

Review Magic 2014 – Duels of the Planeswalkers (PC)

July 2, 2013

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Magic: The Gathering has been around for a long time – and I have been playing it for a long time myself. I first got into it as a freshman in college back in 1994 right before the Ice Age set came out the following year. There have been digital…

Review: Great Battles Medieval (iPad)

July 2, 2013

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There are no shortages of quality strategy games on the iPad. But that’s now. It wasn’t long ago that that was not the case at all. There was Civilization Revolution, which was certainly the finest portable version of that game, but it has only been in the last 12 months…

Brutal Gamer News Wrap 7/2/13

July 1, 2013

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GameStick announces custom controllers via smartphones, PS3 gets its boo-boos bandaged with firmware 4.46, the Xbox One and PS4 head to GameStop Expo and you can get a look at 27 minutes of Dragon Commander gameplay in today’s News Wrap. Make your own controller, the GameStick way I have to…

Review: Magrunner Dark Pulse (PC)

July 1, 2013

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It is so easy for me to imagine the conversation which birthed this project; [Within fledgling quasi-independent game studio 3AM Games…] John: “Hey Dave!” Dave: “Yeah?” John: “You know what Valve Software’s Portal needed?” Dave: “No.” John: “Cthulhu!” [And so began the development of Magrunner: Dark Pulse.] Magrunner: Dark Pulse,…

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July 1, 2013

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Xbox boss Don Mattrick is making the move from Microsoft to Zynga. Updated portion: Zynga has officially named Mattrick CEO and he will indeed join Pincus at the company that the former Zynga boss started. Pincus isn’t really going anywhere though as he’ll be taking the Chief Product Officer position…

Review: Project X Zone (3DS)

July 1, 2013

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What do you get when you mix in a little bit of everything to a tactics strategy game? In the case of Project X Zone, what you get is moments of humorous dialogue sprinkled into a ridiculously thrown together story. And that makes for a fun game that is definitely…

Review: Warhammer Quest (iPad)

July 1, 2013

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It has been a while since we’ve had an authentic Warhammer experience. THQ mishandled the license with extreme prejudice, even going so far to publish a game that was a generic action clone with that awful Space Marine game that I’ve tried to purge from my memory. So as far…

Interview: MURA Interactive on Dub Wars and the future of Ouya

June 30, 2013

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Here at Digitally Downloaded, a few of our team has been spending a substantial amount of time with the recently released indie gaming console, Ouya. In doing so, we came across a unique hybrid indie title that creatively mixes Dubstep music and twin-stick shooting mechanics together in such a way…

The weekly discussion: Gaming on the go edition

June 28, 2013

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These days there are no shortage of options for gaming on the go. In addition to the traditional handheld consoles – the 3DS and the Vita – there’s very powerful gaming laptops and the ever reliable iPhone and iPad and Android devices. But if you’re like me and you own…

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