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Review: New Art Academy (3DS)

September 17, 2012

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Back when the Nintendo DS was riding high and the iPhone and iPad were relatively minor blips on the home entertainment radar, Nintendo’s touch screen console saw a fair few releases that were not really games but rather what would later be known as “apps.” Art Academy was one of…

Digitally Downloaded is heading to EB Expo 2012! Any requests?

September 17, 2012

EB Expo 2012

EB Expo is only in its second year, but it’s already building into the Australian equivalent of the E3 expo in America. There’s a great deal on show this year, from October 5-7, and Digitally Downloaded will be there in force, playing the as-yet unreleased games and chatting to all…

New Little King’s Story dated in North America

September 17, 2012

New Little Kings Story/PS Vita/PS3/Sony

King Corobo strikes out against the Devil King early next month on the PS Vita. Any day that the PSV gets a solid new release is a good one, and it looks like October 2nd is going to be a very good one indeed. That’s provided you like whimsical 2D/3D…

Review: Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart (iPad)

September 17, 2012

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It is an odd quirk that so many hidden object games seem to come from a horror background. This genre allows for a lot of fun for developers to build themed settings in which to hide those pesky objects. Halloween with all its ghost stories, haunted houses, dark cemeteries and…

Pre-order Train Simulator 2013, get a discount

September 17, 2012

PC/Steam/Train Simulator 2013

Aspiring engineers who are looking to pick up a copy of Train Simulator 2013 might want to plunk down their order on Steam now. RailSimulator has just announced that the sequel to Train Simulator 2012 is just about ready to roll out onto the tracks for PC. As a bonus,…

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September 17, 2012

Fuse/Insomniac Games/Overstrike/PS3/Xbox 360

Developer Insomniac Games announced this past week that its forthcoming four player action shooter Overstrike is getting a name change – but thats not all. Fuse is the name of the game now, and it’s a game that has a little bit of an uproar around it at the moment.…

DLC review: Battlefield 3: Armored Kill (PS3)

September 17, 2012

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The battlefield just got bigger than ever. No, really. Armored Kill, the third DLC instalment to DICE’s Battlefield 3 brings with it four brand new maps, and they are boy are they big. You might remember a few months ago we did a review of Battlefield 3 and the second…

Video review: Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise (Wii)

September 17, 2012

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Beat the Beat has finally arrived in Australia, and while the Wii might not be getting many new game releases these days, this game continues the fine tradition of quality over quantity in the Wii’s final year. Taking a deceptively simple idea, throwing in some insane minigames and crazy-fun music,…

The weekly discussion: all about U… Wii U

September 14, 2012

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The dust has settled (well, more-or-less), and we now know almost everything there is to know about the Nintendo Wii U – when it will launch how much it will cost, what games will be available on it. There’s been controversies, of course. I’m not entirely sold on the console…

Original Killzone coming to PSN in HD

September 14, 2012

Killzone HD/PS3/Sony

An HD remake of the original Killzone was already on the way in next month’s Trilogy Collection, now Sony has announced that the game will also be available (sans parts 2&3) on the PSN. It’s true, the first game in the Killzone series (billed as a Halo-killer by some before…

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