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June 4, 2012

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The Nintendo Direct conference featured several newsworthy announcements prior to the actual E3 event. Easily the chief among these though, was “Miiverse”. If you didn’t catch the live stream or our coverage earlier, we’ll let you in on a few details about it. The second you turn on the Wii…

its-not-even-e3-but-as-nintendo-made

June 3, 2012

E3 2012/Hardware/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/Opinion

As many would have noticed, Nintendo has run its own pre-E3 show to show off a couple of neat things before the main event starts tomorrow. There’s some really great stuff in there – the Miiverse, especially, looks like a great take on a gaming social network and precisely what…

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June 3, 2012

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Nintendo’s Pre-E3 Nintendo Direct conference has concluded. You can see the details of the article as they appeared after the jump:Not able to tune into Nintendo’s pre-E3 Nintendo Direct conference? Never fear, Digitally Downloaded will be covering the news as it happens on this very page. The conference is set…

DLC Review: Sonic Adventure DX Upgrade (PSN)

June 3, 2012

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While the digital release of Sonic Adventure won’t exactly win over the masses today, it’s still a reasonably solid title with plenty of content for interested parties. In fact, there’s so much to do that the premise of downloadable content seems a tad unnecessary. Nevertheless, there’s some logic to it…

E3 2012: Nintendo to have pre-E3 video-stream all about the Wii U

June 3, 2012

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When the Wii U was shown last year at E3 2011, confusion was the most common feeling among viewers and attendees. Was the Wii U a new system? Was it just a tablet add-on for the current Wii? And why did Nintendo’s next hardware product have a ridiculous name? While…

Humble Indie Bundle V contains horror and critical acclaim

June 2, 2012

Amnesia: The Dark Descent/Bastion/Charity/Double Fine Productions/Humble Indie Bundle/Limbo/PC

Started on May 4th of 2010, the Humble Indie Bundle promotions have been great for everybody. Not only have many video game players been able to experience many great games with no form of DRM for whatever price the players want, but a majority of the money that the promotions…

Review: Fortune Street Smart (iPhone)

June 2, 2012

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Is there a better suited game for the iPhone than Fortune Street, Square Enix’s most under appreciated franchise? I would argue no. Fortune Street Smart is a brilliant fit for the iPhone, and one of very best mobile games you’ll ever play. The series, which has been Japan-only in many…

Harley Quinn smacks the Xbox Live Update

June 1, 2012

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The first single player expansion for batman: Arkham City went up on XBL this week. Not into clowns? There’s also a nice sale on Popcap’s catalog and some vintage Sega classicsMake that overpriced Sega classics. Or maybe not, depending on how much you love the absolute classics of their respective genres.…

Max Payne 3 now diving onto PCs everywhere

June 1, 2012

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The hardboiled former detective comes to the PC today. Happy Friday Max Payne loving, PC fans! Today’s your lucky day if you’ve been waiting for the latest game starring the burned out cop to hit your gaming platform of choice as it’s the official international launch day! Max Payne 3…

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June 1, 2012

Dark Souls/DLC/Games For Windows Live/PC/Petition/PS3/Steam/Xbox 360

Remember when Dark Souls got announced for personal computers after an almost 100K-signature petition? Everybody was happy. But then the box art was revealed, with the white, ever-so-hated “Games for Windows Live” logo right at the top of the packaging. This caused yet another outrage with another petition, as GFWL…

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