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House Of Ashes: Why copy/pasting horror mechanics doesn’t work

October 21, 2021

Horror/Survival Horror/The Dark Pictures/Video/Video review

Video by Matt S. House of Ashes is a good – even great game. It’s highly cinematic, filled with excellent set-pieces, and is a plain-good, fun time. However! The developers of this series – which includes Little Hope and Man of Medan, have made each title with roughly the same…

Review: House of Ashes (Sony PlayStation 5)

October 21, 2021

Bandai Namco/Horror/PlayStation 5/PS5 Review/review/Reviews/Survival Horror/The Dark Pictures

Review by Matt S. The Dark Pictures Anthology’s latest entry, House of Ashes, has plenty going for it. It has cinematic flair, Hollywood talent (led by Ashley Tisdale), and an intriguing premise, given that it’s leveraging off the Akkadian Empire, which is one of the oldest empires we know of…

Gadget review: APEX 3 TKL keyboard

October 21, 2021

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/keyboard/SteelSeries

Review by Matt S. Grammarly, that Web application that keeps an eye on your typing for you, tells me that I write around 120,000 words per week. Given that I work seven days per week, that works out at around 17,150 words per day. Yes, that is a lot, and…

Review: Ultra Age (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 19, 2021

action game/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/Ultra Age

Review by Trent P. In the infancy of the Internet, many were fixated on quotes and philosophies from lead developers. One great example of this is the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto himself. Miyamoto has always been the face of Nintendo and responsible for so many of its characters, has been perhaps…

Review: Lyrica 2 (Nintendo Switch)

October 19, 2021

Art Game/China/Indie/Lyrica/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/rhythm game/Switch Review

Review by Matt S. Lyrica is one of the better rhythm games available on the Nintendo Switch. It might not be as well-known as the Taiko the Drum titles, or Hatsune Miku’s Switch outing (of course), but Lyrica had something different and compelling going for it: it offered culture. The sequel…

Interesting games on itch.io: October 19

October 19, 2021

Art Game/Indie/itch/itch.io/list/Top 10/top 5

I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive,…

The October issue of the Dee Dee Zine is now live… PLUS read one of the earlier magazines for free!

October 18, 2021

Dee Dee Zine/magazine/News

News by Matt S. Did you know that the October issue of the Dee Dee Zine is actually our sixth? We’ve been doing this for half a year already! Anyhow, it’s live now, and has some cracking features, including: – A look at the “bad endings” of visual novels and…

Gadget Review: EPOS H6PRO

October 18, 2021

EPOS/Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/Headset/Speakers

Review by Matt S. EPOS sure do like to keep me busy. Not a few weeks after the excellent and versatile H3 Hybrid, the company has now released the H6PRO – a wired headset priced at $Aus259. At that price I would imagine that some have an issue with the…

Poll of the week: What scale of game gets you most hyped?

October 18, 2021

Poll/Poll of the Week

Poll by Matt S. We often assume that it’s the AAA-blockbusters that get people most excited. That might well be true overall, but as this week’s poll shows, within the niche audiences that follow us on DigitallyDownloaded.net, the truly exciting games come from elsewhere. As you can see, it’s actually…

weekly-streams-are-back

October 18, 2021

News/stream/Video/Video review/Weekly Streams

News by Matt S. I did take a break from doing streams – there was just do much other stuff to do that I couldn’t fit it in. But, people had been asking me to do them again, so I’m finding a way. Streams are back! I’m still working out…

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