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Review: Noble Armada: Lost Worlds (Nintendo Switch)

March 18, 2021

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Review by Matt S. Just as Dungeons & Dragons dominates the pen-and-paper RPG space, Warhammer dominates the tabletop gaming space. It’s not the only tabletop miniatures game, though if you were to look at the video game industry, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was the only one;…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, March 18, 2021

March 17, 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)! Devotion…

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March 17, 2021

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News by Matt S. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron was one of the real artsy games of the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era. In that it was wildly beautiful and thematically rich… and sold peanuts. That didn’t stop it from gaining a niche following though… and indeed I even remember…

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March 17, 2021

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Opinion by Matt S. As far as I’m concerned, the biggest problem that faces gaming as an art form is how easy it is proving to be for developers to use it for the purposes of pure propaganda. Whether it is an explicit recruitment tool for the army, or simply…

Review: Battle Brothers (Nintendo Switch)

March 17, 2021

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Review by Matt S. I’m all for games being complex, challenging, and unforgiving. Just this week I reviewed a simulation title, in A-Train, that comes dangerously close to being a genuine degree in urban planning and an MBA, rolled into one. But, if you are going to go down the…

Getting into Saviors of Sapphire Wings: What you need to know

March 17, 2021

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Video by Harvard L. DDNet contributor, Harvard, was the one to review Saviors of Sapphire Wings/Strangers of Sword City for us. In addition to his in-depth, 2,000-word review, he’s also created this “Let’s Play” video, highlighting the early game of Saviors of Sapphire Wings, and giving you some hints and…

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance looks like an exhausting load of content

March 16, 2021

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News by Matt S. You’ve got to feel sorry for Dungeons & Dragons a little. It’s the biggest name in tabletop gaming, by far, and back in the day, with the likes of Eye of the Beholder through to Baldur’s Gate, it was also leading the way with video games.…

Review: A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism (Nintendo Switch)

March 16, 2021

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Review by Matt S. The first thing that you’ll see when turning on A-Train: All! Aboard! Tourism is a super cute anime girl batting her eyes at you as she welcomes you to the tutorial. It’s a bright, fun start to what looks like a charming, colourful little city builder…

The first person dungeon crawler turns 40; what makes this genre so enduring?

March 16, 2021

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Video by Matt S. For as long as I can remember, I have loved the first-person dungeon crawler. Whether it was getting lost in the labyrinths of Wizardry, or inching my way around a SSI Dungeons & Dragons ‘crawler, much of my enduring love for RPGs can be traced back…

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March 16, 2021

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News by Matt S. I am one of those people thoroughly exhausted by zombies in video games. I understand that they’re a convenient enemy type for developers, but there’s a point where “convenient” becomes “lazy” and, with all due respect to game developers, there is a lot of lazy ones…

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