Review by Brad L. The Nintendo Switch is fast becoming the home of many quality titles from the more powerful PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, showing that all it takes is a little optimisation to make this console sing. One of the recent examples of that is Dragon Ball: Xenoverse…
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Review by Harvard L. MercurySteam is a Spanish studio which should be familiar to fans of Castlevania and now Metroid – it has been the one championing those respective franchises with new entries long after their original developers moved on to different projects. But MercurySteam has been less prolific in…
Read MoreNews by Ginny W., 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…
Read MoreRetro by Matt S. One of the best things about shopping for otaku stuff in Japan is the retro gaming scene. There are shops everywhere – particularly in Akihabara and Nakano Broadway – that carry a massive range of really retro games, all the way back to the NES. As…
Read MoreOpinion 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…
Read MoreOpinion 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…
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