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North American PS3’s finally get Dragonborn

February 13, 2013

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PS3 using Elder Scrolls: Skyrim fans can finally get Dragonborn as the expansion pack is now on the PSN in North America. And since you had to wait so long for it, Bethesda went ahead and put it on sale. Any excuse to go back to any part of the…

NIS America releases a delightfully creepy app to promote Hyperdimension Neptunia

February 13, 2013

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Compile Heart’s Hyperdimension Neptunia series is quite possibly the most otaku of JRPGs that actually gets localised (bless NISA for that). Being rather creepy makes the games quite niche, but there’s a dedicated fanbase for the games who find them quite amusing. With Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory coming soon, NISA has…

The week’s Play-Asia special: Warriors and Souls unite

February 13, 2013

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If you’re on the hunt for some cheap games for your consoles, Play-Asia rotates around weekly specials, and there are often some really great bargains to be picked up.As a disclaimer, Digitally Downloaded is a Play-Asia affiliate, and we do gain some income from any games you purchase by clicking…

Review: Real Heroes: Firefighter 3D (3DS)

February 12, 2013

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I know I am in for a bad time with a game when I quit out of the tutorial in frustration. Welcome to Real Heroes: Firefighter 3D. Firefighting is an interesting concept for a FPS-style experience. It’s bloodless (which is a nice change for a genre that typically rewards headshot…

Review: Let’s Fish! Hooked On (PlayStation Vita)

February 12, 2013

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Fishing is not the world’s most entertaining activity. With all due respect to the sport, you need to be a special kind of person to be able to sit down all day throwing a wire into the water and hoping that something you can’t see grabs on. I’m a terrible…

Shining Ark – a new trailer

February 12, 2013

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Sega released a new trailer for their upcoming Shining Ark game. Shining Ark is an RPG coming out for the PSP on February 28th in Japan. The visuals look good and show that developers are still working with the PlayStation Portable – especially on strategy and role-playing games it seems.…

Loads of screenshots for Disgaea Dimension 2

February 12, 2013

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I am a huge fan of hybrid RPG/strategy titles, and the Disgaea series has developed one of the larger followings among this genre. Published by Nippon Ichi, this tactical RPG game is set to release in Japan on March 20th of 2013. I am really hoping this gets a release…

Interview: Pachter on the PlayStation 4, Cloud gaming and the damage multiplayer is doing to the industry

February 11, 2013

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Here at Digitally Downloaded, we recently got in touch with notorious business analyst Michael Pachter ahead of the apparent PlayStation 4 announcement scheduled for February 20th. We spoke to him regarding his expectations and perspectives on the PS4 as well as its potential impact on Sony, the next generation and…

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February 11, 2013

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One of the Vita’s secret strengths (and it really is secret, I see very little online chatter about it), is its many, many great and free non-gaming applications. It might seem strange for me to say this given that we’re a gaming-focused website and one would assume that the reason…

Review: Fire Emblem Awakening (3DS)

February 11, 2013

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Fire Emblem Awakening marks the first “new” game in the series since 2007’s Radiant Dawn on the Wii. As such, it seems reasonable to expect greater ambition from the folks at Intelligent Systems. …but not so much on casual mode If ambition is what you seek, Awakening delivers it in…

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