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Dead or Alive 6 update: Tamaki joins the roster, and this girl rocks

March 12, 2020

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Video by Matt S. It’s the final update for Dead or Alive 6’s fourth season pass, and it brings us a brand new character to play with! Her name is Tamaki, and she’s an Aikido specialist. She also rocks, and not just because she has lovely green hair. In this…

Review: Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (PC)

March 12, 2020

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Review by Matt S. There was once a reason to buy into Xbox consoles if you were a fan of games from Asia. Not now, but once. The original model Xbox and Xbox 360 both enjoyed a surprisingly decent range of titles that were exclusive to those platforms. Kingdom Under…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, March 12, 2020

March 11, 2020

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News by Lindsay M., News Editor 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…

Review: Mystic Vale (Nintendo Switch)

March 11, 2020

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Review by Harvard L. Few things in life are as innately satisfying as seeing a synergistic strategy come together in a card game. The sensation of planning towards a big payoff, or slowly amassing resources which compound in effectiveness once combined with smart decision making, is a potent one indeed.…

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March 11, 2020

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Opinion by Matt S. Now that the review embargo over Nioh 2 now lifted, I can talk about the game freely. I’ve already broached this topic briefly in my review, but I wanted to elaborate a little further here. In an otherwise magnificent game, Nioh 2 has one critical issue…

Review: Nioh 2 (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 10, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Koei Tecmo’s Nioh was a breakthrough in so many ways. It represented the first time that a developer outside of FromSoftware had figured out the X-factor that made FromSoftware’s Dark Souls and Bloodborne such incredible experiences. Koei also managed to do so while keeping a firm…

Review: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Nintendo Switch)

March 10, 2020

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Review by Matt S. If I were to ask everyone reading this to raise their hands if they are thoroughly sick of the roguelike genre being appropriated by indie developers to replace the joy of finely crafted levels in favour of randomised “endless” content, I would imagine that most people…

Review: One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (Sony PlayStation 4)

March 10, 2020

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Review by Clark A. Saitama, the eponymous One Punch Man, has journeyed from homemade web comics to full-fledged Jump magazine releases to gloriously animated works. His next stop poses a dilemma: how do you incorporate a character that wins in a single blow into the video game medium, let alone…

The next Dead or Alive 6 DLC character will be available today

March 9, 2020

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News by Matt S. While Koei Tecmo has found itself in some hot water recently for its DLC strategy for Dead or Alive 6 (namely, charging people for hair colour changes that only last until players change the hair colour again), I’ve been really looking forward to the next new…

Review: Two Point Hospital (Nintendo Switch)

March 9, 2020

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Review by Matt S. Two Point Hospital comes across as more a nostalgic in-joke than an attempt at a proper simulation, and while I loved the old Theme Hospital as much as the next person, what made that game so memorable was that it also offered a tight, engaging, challenging…

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