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Review: Funghi Puzzle: Funghi Explosion (Nintendo Switch)

January 3, 2019

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Review by Matt S. Nameko – “Funghi” in the west – is one of those odd success stories in Japan in which a character design has become so popular that the character has become famous simply for existing. While the popularity that drives Nameko is a little foreign to the…

Review: Mech Rage (Nintendo Switch)

January 3, 2019

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Review by Lee F. Mech Rage is a neat arcade title that seems at home on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a top-down shooter with responsive controls where you move from room to room clearing out baddies to progress to the next, collecting currency along the way to change and upgrade…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, January 3, 2018

January 2, 2019

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News by Matt S. It’s the first catch-up coffee for the year! 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…

Review: Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition (Nintendo Switch)

January 2, 2019

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Review by Matt S. What a Christmas gift Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition (hereafter DW8:XL) was from Koei Tecmo. Series fans that didn’t enjoy what Koei did with Dynasty Warriors 9 got a reminder that just one edition before, the developer produced one of the finest action games…

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January 2, 2019

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Opinion by Matt S. Late last year, news emerged that a man in Japan had held a wedding for himself and Hatsune Miku – as in, the vocaloid-cum-digital superstar that we all know well in video games thanks to the sublime Project Diva series. Because this story fed the “weird…

Revisiting Proteus and a retrospective on 2018

January 2, 2019

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Opinion by Harvard L. Yesterday, in my Smash Bros. burnout, I decided to revisit Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles on the Switch because I thought it would be one that could relax me. Unfortunately, stepping back into Yonder after a break was confusing at first – I dropped into the…

Happy New Year!

December 31, 2018

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We survived, and it’s now 2019! It’s time to look forward to the year ahead. The whole DigitallyDownloaded.net team would like to wish everything the very best New Year – we hope it’s a year of great success and happiness for you all. From the game industry side of things,…

How many of the best games of 2018 did you play?

December 31, 2018

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Article by Matt S. Overall, 2018 has been an exceptional year for video games. From January right through to the end of December, there has been such an incredible stream of quality releases on all platforms that it has been incredibly difficult to keep up. Below you’ll find a list…

The top 10 articles on DigitallyDownloaded.net in 2018

December 31, 2018

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Article by Matt S. A fun New Year’s Eve tradition is looking back at the year that was, and that’s what we’re going to do here on DDNet – looking back at the most popular articles of 2018. Of course, reviews counted for a lot there, as it’s generally a…

The games that we’re looking forward to in 2019: Matt C

December 28, 2018

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It’s finally the end of 2018… so now it’s time to look forward to the year ahead. Overall, 2018 has been a good year, offering us plenty of great games to play, right from the start through to the end (too many games, really), but already 2019 is shaping up…

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