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March 5, 2018

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Review by Matt C. If you’ve watched any of the trailers (or seen any marketing material at all, really), it won’t come as a surprise to you that Fe is a deeply, powerfully environmentalist game. Even if the trailers didn’t, the opening moments make it abundantly clear: a high-angle shot…

The catch-up coffee: Monday, March 5, 2018

March 4, 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…

The Friday Ten: Celebrate the Nintendo Switch’s first birthday with these games

March 2, 2018

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List by Matt S. Can you believe that the Nintendo Switch is one year old? Only one year old? I genuinely can’t remember not having that console at hand; it gives me a home console experience while on the go, and that’s something really valuable to me. In just a…

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March 2, 2018

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Review by Matt S. We need more games like Mulaka. I don’t say that because it’s a particularly good game to play – it’s a workable action adventure game, and we’ve seen better examples of that out there. But Mulaka is stand out, potent, and important, because it is deeply…

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March 1, 2018

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News by Matt S. Unfrozen is a new developer that works out of St Petersberg in Russia. Its debut game, Iratus: Lord of the Dead, is one interesting title indeed. Basically the game’s looking to mix the satirical villainry of the brilliant Dungeon Keeper with the roguelike gameplay of Darkest…

Interview with Tomas Rawlings; the expert on making Cthulhu video games

March 1, 2018

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Interview by Matt S. Way, way, way back when DDNet was a very different publication to what it is today, we were absolutely in love with a tactics strategy game that was effectively Final Fantasy Tactics, Cthulhu, and Nazis all brought together into something that just worked as a horror-themed…

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March 1, 2018

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Video by Matt S. Games like Never Alone, Toren, Mulaka, Okami, and others are games that represent the core values and storytelling of the cultures that have produced them. In a sense, they are to games what “foreign films” are to films. And we should play and support them, because…

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March 1, 2018

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Review by Matt S. I bought myself a copy of Hollow because the trailer on the eShop was positively classy. The developer made something with genuine production values, what with a quality cover of “Mad World” forming the soundtrack and all. Yeah, it looked like it was a clone of…

Yay! We have a release date for Happy Birthdays!

March 1, 2018

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News by Matt S. Birthdays: The Beginning wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The reviews and consumer response to it has been largely mixed. It’s because you don’t kill stuff in Birthdays. It confuses a lot of people into thinking a game’s no good if it doesn’t involve shelling an enemy’s…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, March 1, 2018

February 28, 2018

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