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Review: Middle-Earth Shadow of War (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 20, 2017

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Review by Matt S. There are two ways that a creative person – or group of creative people – can take an existing, beloved franchise, and put a new spin on it; the first is to approach the material with real respect, take the time to really understand what the…

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October 20, 2017

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Article by Matt S. Smite Tactics isn’t really a tactics game, which was disappointing right off the bat. It’s a pure-play digital trading card game, like Hearthstone, which represents the characters in the cards on a playfield as miniatures. It’s possible to move these characters around a small grid area,…

Preview: Tracks: The Train Set Game (PC)

October 19, 2017

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Preview by Matt C. For anyone with fond childhood memories of playing with wooden train sets, Tracks: The Train Set Game offers a wonderful trip down memory lane. In the simplest terms, it’s a game about building railway tracks with those familiar wooden pieces, over and under and through whatever…

Review: Fire Emblem Warriors (Nintendo Switch)

October 19, 2017

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Fire Emblem and Koei Tecmo’s Musou (Warriors) franchise have always been a perfect marriage. It’s just taken too long for the marriage to actually be consummated. I’m sure some might find the mix odd; after all, the Fire Emblem games are careful tactics titles while the Warriors games are pure…

Review: Ogre (PC)

October 19, 2017

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Review by Moshe R. Saying that Ogre is another board game to see itself converted from the tabletop to a screen would be the truth, but it would also be far from the whole truth. Ogre is not just another board game! Being the heretic that I am, I will…

The catch-up coffee: Thursday, October 18, 2017

October 18, 2017

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News by Matt S and Matt C. 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…

We need to stop treating game play time as a measure of success

October 18, 2017

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Opinion by Matt S. As many will know, EA announced that it was shutting down Visceral Games today, leaving the careers of the staff, and the future of the games that it was working on, in complete limbo. There is a lot wrong with this decision, and how EA justified…

Review: Gran Turismo Sport (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 18, 2017

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Review by Matt S. I’m going to get my biggest gripe with Gran Turismo Sport out of the way from the start; the requirement to be online in order to save your game is trash. If the servers are down then all those cars and tracks you’ve spent hours unlocking…

Review: Voltron VR Chronicles (Sony PlayStation VR)

October 17, 2017

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Review by Matt C. I must admit up front that I’ve never watched Voltron: Legendary Defender, and my memories of the original Voltron cartoon are hazy at best. So, to a certain extent, I jumped into Voltron VR Chronicles blind; I didn’t have to worry about it living up to…

Review: Echo (PlayStation 4)

October 17, 2017

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Review by Matt S. A shooter that manages to be intelligent is a rare, precious thing. Not just intelligent in the sense of it being “anti-war” or subversive, such as games like the recent Wolfenstein titles or Spec Ops: The Line. Nor just in the way that it plays with…

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