Opinion by Matt S. Loot crates are the devil, and there’s a number of reasons for that. I’ll leave it to the Jim Sterlings of the world to rant on about how anti-consumer and exploitative they are, because it’s his shtick to talk about business practices and rant and rave…
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Opinion by Ginny W. Games dealing with war as a subject matter saturate the market. Ghost Recon: Wildlands may have been more about foreign terrorism being enacted on Bolivia than war specifically, but it was still harrowing in its insensitivity. The latest Wolfenstein will be rearing its head soon, and…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L.Note: This Nintendo Switch release is actually two games in the one package. So we’ve reviewed both, and then the score at the bottom reflects the combined purchase. Brave Dungeon Brave Dungeon is a spinoff dungeon crawler developed by Japanese indie studio INSIDE SYSTEM, building on the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Chaos;Child is loosely related to one of the (if not the) greatest visual novels ever made, Steins;Gate. Developed by MAGES and 5pb, Chaos;Child also belongs to the Science Adventure Series from the development duo – a series of science fiction games that seek to greatly normalise…
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Article by Matt S. I’ve finally got around to playing the first installment of Summer Lesson, which was given English subtitles for a release in the English-speaking Asian market. So if you can access the Hong Kong PlayStation Network (thank the mercies for region-free) you can play it on any…
Read MoreMatt’s back! And that means the Digitally Uploaded podcast is a go again! Unfortunately we discovered while Matt was in Japan that technical issues meant that we couldn’t record new episodes of the podcast, so sorry about that, but we’re back now, and boy have we got a great show…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We here at DDNet really like cultural games, and what we have here is possibly the most memorable one you’ll play all year. Detention is a game developed by Taiwanese indie team Red Candle, set in the country’s turbulent history in the mid-20th century and weaving…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Touhou Kobuto V: Burst Battle is not a very good game, unfortunately. It’s a clumsy, clunky and amateurish production. That, of course, is part of its charm for the very small niche that would look at the screenshots and even think to give it a go.…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. Football* is art. Football is an exact science. Football is a real time strategy game where two competing armies strive to make the most of the resources they have available to them through the positioning of the right player at the right time. Julius Caesar might…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M, Ginny W, 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…
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