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A retrospective look at the Nintendo Wii – Part Two

January 16, 2013

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With Nintendo’s brand new home console, the Wii U, now sitting on store shelves and taking up many a headline here at Digitally Downloaded, we figured we’d start off this brand new year by paying respects to its motion controlled filled predecessor: Wii. The risks that Nintendo took with the…

(UPDATED) Dead Island: Riptide gets a “Zombie Bait” edition, contains disturbing “Figurine”

January 15, 2013

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Do you remember Dead Island, Techland’s open-world zombie game? If so, good for you. Do you remember that Dead Island is going to have its successor released in three months under the name of Dead Island: Riptide? If you have forgotten, Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide publisher Deep Silver…

Trailer: Zenonia 5 hacks and slashes the App Store

January 15, 2013

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The fifth installment of GAMEVIL’s popular Zenonia action/RPG series lands on Apple devices. Zenonia 5: Wheel of Destiny picks up “long after” Zenonia 4 ended and takes players on a quest through a world that’s fallen into corruption at the hands of some very bad folk. The game offers four…

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January 15, 2013

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The guys behind Heroes of Newerth have been busy. Not only is their game a hit, but they’ve doubled their roster and launched a brand new division – one with an eye towards mobile games. iGames, which is wholly owned by S2, will focus on multiplayer mobile gaming exclusively (I…

An early look at The Game Ateliers’ two upcoming iOS titles for 2013

January 15, 2013

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It was only a few months back when we reviewed Super TinyLeap. Published by The Game Atelier, who is well known for its vibrant titles Flying Hamster and SunFlowers, it showed that the team was taking up the publishing reigns to bring smaller indie developers’ titles to the gaming market…

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January 14, 2013

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The EVE universe got a whole lot more action oriented as CCP Games’ PS3 exclusive DUST 514 has finally seen integration- and just in time for the open beta. DUST 514 is the free to play extension of the long running PC MMO, EVE Online. The game has been in…

A retrospective look at the Nintendo Wii – Part One

January 14, 2013

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PlayStation Vita: Destined to be history’s most under-appreciated console?

January 14, 2013

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The PlayStation Vita seems destined to become the most under-appreciated console in the increasingly likely event that it fails to see major sales figures. One of the most common comments you’ll see on discussions about the Vita on websites and message boards is that it apparently lacks for games worth…

Review: Imaginstruments (Vita)

January 13, 2013

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The PlayStation Vita has an impressive range of free games and applications for people to play around with. Even if you don’t have access to PlayStation Plus, you can count on games like Ecolibrium and applications like the excellent Twitter interface to drain plenty of battery charge. Imaginstruments is the…

Wii U sales data – not as impressive as Nintendo’s press release would have you believe

January 12, 2013

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Analysing Nintendo’s recent Press Release from a certain perspective makes it seem that there is something funny up with the reported sales figures. It has barely been over 40 days since Nintendo dropped their hot new home console, Wii U, on the market and the madness of the holiday rush…

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