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Review: Resident Evil Village (Sony PlayStation 5)

May 5, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Resident Evil Village is not what I expected. At all. I’d kept myself in the dark about the game pre-release so that I could go in without having PR-set expectations, and so, I went in expecting a Resident Evil game. You know, zombies and stuff. You…

I don’t know why Flashback needed a sequel, but it’s getting one!

May 5, 2021

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News by Matt S. Now, in fairness, Flashback is a genuine classic video game. Weirdly enough it’s one that we’ve never covered at DigitallyDownloaded.net, but you can get it on modern consoles, and while it’s a brutally tough and unforgiving game, it’s also a truly visionary project that continues to…

Well-regarded horror game, Apsulov: End of Gods, getting a console release

May 4, 2021

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News by Matt S. Apsulov: End of Gods first launched on PC back in 2019, where it ended up getting a very positive response. Now it’s finally getting a console release, across PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch. One thing that helps the game stand…

Review: World End Economica Complete (Nintendo Switch)

May 4, 2021

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Review by Matt S. World End Economica has something going for it, since I was able to complete the three tome-length epic, and I’ll rarely finish one visual novel (let alone three) if there isn’t something captivating about them. These are rambling, wordy, indulgent things, too, which under normal circumstances…

Video games are being treated like Schrödinger’s art form, and it’s becoming silly

May 4, 2021

Opinion

Opinion by Matt S. We had another round of the discourse last night in the Australian video game scene. Our national broadcaster (the ABC, but no, that’s not America’s ABC) published an investigative report, titled “Are you being played,” which was, principally, a look into microtransactions, loot boxes, and whether…

Review: Dark Nights with Poe and Munro (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 4, 2021

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Review by Lindsay M.If you have read any of my FMV game reviews of the past few years, you know I will always reference either The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective, the first two titles from a developer that I have come to whole-heartedly love and…

Review: Crime Opera: The Butterfly Effect (Nintendo Switch)

May 3, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Crime Opera is a wildly ambitious project for a development team that wasn’t quite ready for it. This visual novel features 20-odd characters, a plot that shifts between six perspectives, and, thematically, is brutal. This is a story about crime families, with a patriarch that openly…

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May 3, 2021

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The roguelike is a hot topic again, thanks to the “AAA”-roguelike, Returnal, exclusive to PlayStation 5. We chat about that this month on the podcast. We also have a good chat about photography in games, thanks to New Pokemon Snap bringing out the wildlife photographer in us… and then we…

Interesting games on itch.io: May 3

May 3, 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…

Catch up with last week’s gameplay streams: May 3

May 3, 2021

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News by Matt S. As some of you will know, we’ve been doing regular streams over the last year or so on the DDNet YouTube channel, showcasing the latest and greatest games, while chatting with people about those games (and just about everything else) as we go along. If you’d…

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