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Games I’m still playing a decade later: Game Dev Story

August 31, 2021

Game Dev Story/Retro/Retro Reflections/simulation

Retro by Matt S. As gaming journalists, we get so fixated on the new big things that we often play games that we like at the time, rate them highly, put them down, and never really come back to them. That’s not to say these games are bad by any…

Stand-alone expansion for deeply under-appreciated Shadow Tactics gets new trailer

August 31, 2021

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News by Matt S. Shadow Tactics (by the same developer that produced last year’s Desperados III) is a deeply underrated game. We’re part of the problem here at DDNet. After all, we didn’t cover it on its release. But perhaps we’ll get a chance to make amends, because Shadow Tactics:…

Kitaria Fables: It’s like Rune Factory with cats! I love it!

August 31, 2021

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Video by Matt S. Kitaria Fables is such a delightful little game. Utterly charming and inoffensive, this Rune Factory-like RPG has plenty of sword-swinging questing… but you also get plenty of time to kick back and just enjoy the gardening, as you slowly farm up a huge arrangement of delightful…

September 2021 Podcast: Where we love and remember the PlayStation 2

August 30, 2021

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Welcome to the September podcast! The PlayStation 2 is one of the greatest consoles of all time, and its contribution to gaming should be remembered. We’ve been in a nostalgic mood in recent months, so we decided to bust out our favourite PlayStation 2 games to talk about the console…

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August 30, 2021

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Review by Matt S. One of the first things that I realised when I started playing Nostalgic Train was that I haven’t actually played any Japanese “walking simulators” before. Not that I can remember having played, at any rate. It’s a genre that seems to have either spoken to western…

Interesting games on itch.io: August 30

August 30, 2021

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List by Matt S. 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…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, August 30, 2021

August 29, 2021

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News by Lindsay M.Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)! SaGa…

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August 27, 2021

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News by Matt S. Admittedly it has been quite a long time since I played my last Gungrave title. That was Overdose, which was released on the PlayStation 3 as a PS2 Classic title ten years ago. For an example of how raw my writing was back then, just check…

Highly ethical company, Epic, shamelessly exploits the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr

August 27, 2021

Fortnite/News/Opinion

I’ve thought long and hard about what the first sign that society is genuinely irredeemable might be. The event horizon. The point of no return. And I think this is it: The point where we cede control of the education and knowledge transfer from parents, educators, museums and the arts…

Review: No More Heroes III (Nintendo Switch)

August 27, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Auteur theory, and whether it should be applied to video games, is one of those more interesting debates that we can have about this medium. Most of the time it’s difficult to identify a single person as being responsible for the creativity in a game; the…

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