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Assassin’s Creed, hell in video games, and Sonic Racing is back, baby! (Digitally Uploaded 2018, Episode #20)

June 4, 2018

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A new horror game, called Agony, released recently, and it is, by a significant margin, the best depiction of hell that we’ve seen to date. So we discuss how hell should be depicted in a game first up this week. We also talk about Assassin’s Creed, now that a new…

Review: Milanoir (Nintendo Switch)

June 4, 2018

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Review by Matt S. I like to think that when it comes to games inspired by cinema, I’ve seen and studied enough films that I know the context through which the game was born. However, Milanoir is an exception to that rule. Milanoir is inspired by the poliziotteschi, or Italian…

Review: Agony (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 4, 2018

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Review by Matt S. I sympathise with any developer that tackles hell as a topic and setting for their work. Especially the Judeo-Christian concept of hell. See, the problem with hell is that it, by its very nature, needs to be depraved. It needs to be shocking, grotesque and extreme.…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, June 4, 2018

June 3, 2018

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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…

Review: West of Loathing (Nintendo Switch)

June 1, 2018

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Review by Matt S. I have a long history with Kingdom of Loathing (or KoL, as fans fondly know it by). It sustained me through my student years where I couldn’t afford much of anything, let alone games, by being both genuinely free, and online multiplayer focused and therefore endless…

Review: Jurassic Pinball and World Soccer Pinball (Nintendo Switch)

June 1, 2018

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Review by Matt S. The digital pinball space is surprisingly competitive, given how niche pinball is these days. Zen Studios and its brilliant original creations via Pinball FX 3 and Farsight Studios with its physics-perfect recreation of classic tables in The Pinball Arcade absolutely dominate the genre, and there’s not…

Well this might be the most depressing but potent life simulator ever made….

June 1, 2018

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News by Matt S. A French indie developer, Studio Black Flag, has released a Kickstarter to finish work on a game called Orphan Age… and it is an eye catching title for some pretty dark reasons. This game is being pitched as a dystopian life-sim where you play as “children…

It’s so good to see another Sonic Racing game is on the way

June 1, 2018

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News by Matt S. It’s hard to top Mario Kart as the ultimate character crossover kart racing game, but that hasn’t stopped many developers from trying in the past. Perhaps the most successful of these has been Sumo Digital, whose work on Sonic Racing has been well regarded for a…

Review: PixelJunk Monsters 2 (Nintendo Switch)

May 31, 2018

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Review by Matt S. PixelJunk Monsters was the best tower defence game ever developed. It was challenging (like the genre demands), but also beautiful, with a great sense of character and place. Distinctive and interesting thanks to its islander aesthetics, it wasn’t a game that was trying to tell a…

Review: Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (Nintendo Switch)

May 31, 2018

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Review by Matt S. Imagine how you must have felt to be a Street Fighter fan and purchase Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challenge when it launched last year on Nintendo Switch. In that game package you get a single version of Street Fighter 2, some unnecessary HD sprites,…

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