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Valhalla Knights 3 – a handful of early images and info

March 22, 2013

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Valhalla Knights 3 from Marvelous AQL for the PlayStation Vita looks and sounds pretty good so far. The game sounds like a lot will be going on and these screenshots seem to support that notion. The number ‘seven’ will appear a lot as battles take place with up to seven…

Friday 10s: Ten reasons the PlayStation 3 is the best console ever

March 22, 2013

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Everyone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. And so each week we pull together a “top 10” list. These are here for fun and laughs – we’re not pretending that we’re the authority of good games taste in the world and this…

Lots of Disgaea Dimension 2 screenies, d00d!

March 21, 2013

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Disgaea blends a wacky sense of humor with deep visuals and deeply deserves its cult status among fans. Well we have gotten an early look at both screenshots and character art. The colors are more vivid and the characters larger and more detailed than we have seen in the past.…

Interview: Australia’s newcomers Loveshack Entertainment; bringing experience to a startup

March 21, 2013

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Joshua Boggs If I was to mention that developers behind the following games: SPY mouse, The Movies, Populous, Theme Hospital, Syndicate Wars (as in, the Bullfrog one), Rolling with Katamari and Real Racing 2 and 3, had come together to start a new studio, you’d be pretty excited about the…

Brutal Gamer News Wrap; 3/21/13

March 21, 2013

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It’s a good kind of surprise, but Silent Hill Book of Memories is actually getting some new content and there’s Epic Mickey 2, Deus Ex, and Deadly Premonition news a plenty this week. Ports! Folks love ’em! …what do you mean ‘no’? Porting games that are already proven to new…

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is looking good

March 21, 2013

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I am a big fan of both Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2 and Lightning was my favorite character from those games. So one could argue I am the exact audience Square Enix is targeting with their upcoming Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Here we get a look at some abilities…

Review: Dead or Alive 5 Plus (Vita)

March 21, 2013

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Every so often I have to admit that I get a review wrong. When I reviewed Dead or Alive 5 on the PlayStation 3, I’d plugged about 30 hours into it, and while I enjoyed it, it didn’t quite hook into me like I wanted it to. But this was…

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March 20, 2013

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By now it is safe to say that we are big fans of the Atelier games here at Digitally Downloaded, and at a recent festival, they announced on Sunday “Project A15”. A quick trailer and a handful of images were released as well – sort of a teaser for the…

Review: Legion (iPad)

March 20, 2013

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Matrix and Slitherine are strategy game specialists, and as such I have always been a bit disappointed that they haven’t done more with the iPad format to date. Here is a platform that is just perfect for strategy games and has really, so far, undelivered in terms of both quality…

Review: Pandora’s Tower (Wii)

March 20, 2013

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Pandora’s Tower is a game that I, a humble Aussie, has had access to for some time. Well over a year, in fact. Given that it’s about to be released, finally, in the US, we felt it was a good time to review it as the Nintendo Wii’s swan song…

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