Tamagotchi are one of those iconic things that you just hope hands around forever. The little devices that you pin to your backpack or carry around in your pocket for micro-distractions throughout the day are wholesome and charming. You’d be lucky if you spent more than five minutes with your…
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Vertical-scrolling shoot ‘em up Mamorukun ReCurse! is getting a modern remaster, and Clear River Games announced today that it would publish the game in the West simultaneously with its Japanese launch. This updated version also includes all previously released DLC. The announcement was made through a brand-new, bullet-soaked trailer for…
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Hideo Kojima is the video game industry’s big auteur. The Stanley Kubrick of games. The guy who somehow gets a big budget to make his strange experiments, even when they defy the industry best practice, and as we all know, the games industry is very best practice orientated. It’s all…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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Inspired by puzzle automation classics from Zachtronics, Neon Noodles, a cyberpunk kitchen automation puzzler, is set to launch for PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox in two weeks. Set in a dystopian world where food equals power and precision is everything, the game features deep, open-ended automation gameplay. Take on the…
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2025 has been an exceptional year for releases, almost from the first day of January. Now that we’re halfway through the year, we use this podcast to remind you all of some of the big hits of the year – don’t forget to check them out if you haven’t yet!…
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How do you “guarantee” 60 million clicks on a mouse? I get that’s an impressive number, but a guarantee is a legal term, and so does that mean that if you can somehow prove that you’ve only got 59,999,999 clicks on your mouse before it craps out, you’re entitled to…
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Naval real-time strategy game Buccanyar launched in Japan in April 2023 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch; this release did include English text support. In the game, players manage the crew and resources of a ship on an exploratory voyage. Plus, there are cats. Dozens of cats. Today, Nicalis…
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Eastasiasoft has announced that it will be bringing the retro side-scrolling shoot ’em up Schildmaid MX digitally to consoles later this year, with the Nintendo Switch also receiving a physical release. Inspired by genre classics, Schildmaid MX combines nostalgic pixel art with innovative shield mechanics, resulting in an intense spin…
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Ever found yourself looking at the state of video games and going: “Why are so many things becoming so simplified and streamlined?” RPGs are melding into big action games with pacy combat, rather than stats crunchers, strategy and simulation games are often so simplified that it’s impossible to actually lose…
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