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October 22, 2012

Circle Entertainment/DSiWare/Nintendo/Reviews/RPG/Strategy RPG

Circle Entertainment is not even trying now. It’s a development team that has never really minded ripping off other original ideas and throwing a cheap copy onto DSiWare, but it’s taken things to a whole other level this time around. As a business strategy it makes sense. There’s not a…

Review: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PC)

October 22, 2012

2K Games/PC/Reviews/Strategy/turn based/XCom

Strategy games have held a position of favour for man hardcore gamers since the inception of the form. Unfortunately, this genre has been woefully represented over the past few years as market ground has been lost to more populist fair, especially to the infinitely reproducible first person shooters. So much…

Review: Sonic Adventure 2 (PS3)

October 21, 2012

PlayStation/Retro/Reviews/Sega/Sonic/Sonic Adventure 2

It has been two years since Sega released Sonic Adventurefor Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. In that time, fans have been begging, pleading, and making petitions for the game’s sequel to be released in the same format. If you’ve played either title, you’re doubtlessly aware of how “stable” and…

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October 21, 2012

Marketing/News/PlayStation/Sony

Over the past few days, Sony has quietly slipped two new teaser clips onto the Internet that are produced in the same vein as last year’s Michael teaser, which instantly stirred excitement across the industry with its release. If you somehow missed the Michael short, you can find it right…

The weekly discussion: Your favourite game director

October 19, 2012

The weekly discussion/weekly chat

As the games industry has become further legitimised as a creative outlet, some very creative people have been drawn to it. From Miyamoto to Suzuki, from Molyneux to Swift, the games industry is now filled with artistic minds of the equal to their counterparts in the worlds of film and…

Game bundles of the moment 20-10-2012: Stopping the indie Interplay

October 19, 2012

Elder Scrolls/Game Bundles Of The Moment/gamestop/GOG/Indie Royale/Interplay/PC

Hello, fellow denizens of the internet, to a late edition of Game Bundles Of The Moment! In this weekly feature we look at some current discounted game bundles and I ramble on about a few of the games found within some of those bundles. Also, I do hope regular readers…

Review: Sun Flowers (Vita)

October 19, 2012

PlayStation/Reviews/Sony/Sun Flowers/vita

Remember waking up on Saturday morning, popping that game into your Nintendo, and then having your mother call you to come help her with the gardening? If you haven’t harboured a lifelong death wish over caring for plants, perhaps you’ll get a kick out of Sun Flowers for the PlayStation…

Are games being ‘dumbed down?’ No

October 19, 2012

Art/Diamond Trust of London/Opinion

There was an interesting video posted over at Gamespot a couple of days ago that raises a question that a lot of those in the games industry has been asking themselves: Are games being ‘dumbed down?’ It’s a common debate and on one level it has legs because games are…

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October 19, 2012

Apple/iOS/LightBox Interactive/News/Nihilistic Studios/PS Vita/PS3/Sony

Today, we found out that not one, but two of Sony’s key studios are closing shop, leaving Sony behind and moving into the wilds of mobile gaming. Yes, both LightBox Interactive and Nihilistic Software are officially moving forward with the current shifts in the unpredictable and ever-changing world of the…

Exclusive: What Michael Pachter really thinks about the Wii U

October 18, 2012

Interview/Michael Pachter/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/Pachter/Wii U

Digitally Downloaded’s Farida recently had the opportunity to have a talk with infamous games industry analyst Michael Pachter. Infamous because his words are often twisted by the enthusiast press as having a vendetta against Nintendo, and of late Nintendo’s Wii U console. To set the record straight he elaborated for…

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