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November 1, 2019

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Video by Matt S. Death Stranding is Sony’s big game for this critical end-of-year season. It’s also the biggest risk that Sony has taken in quite some time; a real creative vision and work of art from Hideo Kojima, formerly of Konami and Metal Gear Solid fame. Just how polarising…

Review: Death Stranding (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 1, 2019

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Review by Matt S. I’m going to start this review with a personal comment: I don’t think there has ever been a game that is more difficult to review than Hideo Kojima’s ego sandbox… I mean Death Stranding. It’s a game where almost its entire worth is wrapped up within…

Review: Dusk Diver (Nintendo Switch)

October 31, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Dusk Diver was released in the wrong part of the year. Given some space away from the half dozen other, excellent, JRPGs and other big releases that have come over the last month, Dusk Diver would have grabbed some attention for its cool aesthetic and lighthearted…

Harvard Let’s Plays Kingsway!

October 31, 2019

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Video by Harvard L. Kingsway is an odd little game, but a very creative one indeed. It’s an RPG in which you play through an operating system. Enemies are pop-ups, quests are emails. Honestly, an operating system has never been more interesting or fun. Harvard continues his series of let’s…

Please support Player 2’s charity marathon – it’s a good cause done by good people

October 31, 2019

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News by Matt S. This is a bit of a personal call out, but the people at Player2.net.au are some of the nicest and most genuine people in the indie games media scene here in Australia, and they’ve got a charity marathon stream coming up that really deserves your support.…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, October 31, 2019

October 30, 2019

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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…

Why I can’t review Call of Duty Modern Warfare

October 30, 2019

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Opinion by Matt S. I cannot make myself play the recently-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare any longer. And I cannot review it. It is a piece of jingoistic, military hero worship propaganda, and the way that it blatantly re-writes history in order to prop up an aggressively nationalistic perspective…

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October 30, 2019

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List by Matt S. Halloween is surely the part of the year that the games industry relishes the most. Making seasonal games for Christmas don’t work because you can’t sell them the rest of the years. Easter (or any other season) is too culturally-specific. Horror, on the other hand, is…

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October 30, 2019

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Video by Matt S. Baldur’s Gate has been released on console for the first time, making its way to PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. That gave me the opportunity and excuse to play one of my favourite, most played games all over again. And, once again, I’ve been loving…

Review: Lethis – Path of Progress (Nintendo Switch)

October 29, 2019

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Review by Matt S. City builders – or similarly-themed “builder” simulators – are a favourite genre of mine, but only when a developer gets them right. Entries into this genre feature a great deal of number crunching, and require that players have a good nose for design, balancing, statistics, and…

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