Digitally Downloaded – Page 531 – Your specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature

Hatsune Miku really dials up the sex appeal at Winter Wonder Festival 2019

February 10, 2019

collectible/figureines/figures/Hatsune Miku/Miku/scale figures/Wonder Festival/Wonder Festival 2019

News by Matt S. Wonder Festival happens twice per year in Japan, and it’s an opportunity for the various hobby companies that produce figures for anime characters and the like to come along and share with the public what they’re working on. The E3 of plastic collectibles, if you will.…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, February 11, 2019

February 10, 2019

anime/Baldur's Gate/catch-up coffee/Criminal Girls/Criminal Girls X/film announcement/Icewind dale/Neverwinter Nights/News/Ni No Kuni/Ni No Kuni II Revenant Kingdom/onechanbara/Planescape Torment

News by Lindsay M. and Matt S. 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…

video-spike-volleyball-and-challenge-of

February 8, 2019

Spike Volleyball/sports game/Video/Video review/volleyball/volleyball game

Video by Matt S. Spike Volleyball is the first attempt to make a serious volleyball simulation on console. Unfortunately, it’s not a great game, but that raises a greater challenge that niche sports games face; how to compete with the mammoth budgets of the likes of EA and 2K Games.…

This Week’s Switch Port News: Friday, February 8, 2019

February 8, 2019

Commander Keen/indie games/News/Nintendo Switch/Switch port/Yume Nikki

News by Matt C. 2019 continues the trend of seemingly every game ever made getting a Switch port. That’s great news for Switch owners, bad news for our wallets, and awful news for DDNet’s News Editor. Here are all the Switch port and release date announcements (that we know of)…

Review: Song of Memories (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 8, 2019

fanservice/JRPG/PlayStation 4/PQube/PS4 Review/Reviews/Song of Memories/visual novel

Review by Matt S. Song of Memories is certainly an eye-opening little visual novel. In fact, it’s greatest strength is its ability to constantly knock you off guard by doing the least expected thing possible. It tries hard (though ultimately fails) to hide some glaring weaknesses behind that penchant for…

We have a western release date for Atelier Lulua!

February 7, 2019

Atelier/Atelier Lulua/Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland/JRPG/Koei Tecmo/News/release date/Release Dates

News by Matt S. Koei Tecmo has finally given us a release date for Atelier Lulua, the fourth game in the ongoing Arland sub-series within the franchise. It launches on May 21 in North America, and May 24 in Europe and Australia. Atelier Lulua will actually be the second Atelier…

pqubes-first-self-published-game-is

February 7, 2019

Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa/News/PQube/trailer/Trailers/visual novel

News by Matt S. We recently mentioned that PQube, the publisher that has been kicking around for ten years now, was creating its very own game. At the time we only had the one screenshot, but now we’ve got more details, and whoo does this game look like it could…

video-new-sekiro-trailer-and-thoughts

February 7, 2019

Activision/From Software/Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice/trailer/Trailers/Video/Video review

Video by Matt S. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is coming to us from FromSoftware and Activision, and it’s certainly one of the biggest and most exciting Japanese games on the agenda for 2019. A new “story trailer” has landed for the game. It’s only a minute long, but it is…

Review: How to Sing to Open Your Heart (PC)

February 7, 2019

indie games/otome/PC Review/Reviews/roseVeRte/visual novel

Review by Matt C. Myana is the princess of Laarz, a nation of cat-people (“luccretias”) who live in near isolation. Ludovic is an aloof king’s guard in Eroolia, a human kingdom with a long history of tension with Laarz. The two hardly seem like a perfect match, but the fates…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, February 7, 2019

February 6, 2019

Assassin's Creed/Assassin's Creed III/Assassin's Creed Liberation HD/catch-up coffee/Dead or Alive Xtreme/Earth Defence Force: Iron Rain/News

News by Matt S. 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…

Latest