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Tokyo Game Show gallery #1: The men, women, and weird characters manning the booths

September 21, 2016

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Tourism by Matt S. One of the features of Tokyo Game Show over the years has been the booth ‘babes,’ or women and men that are dressed up in costume (or, often, dressed down to as little as possible) in order to manage the booths, help players get into the…

Review: One Way Trip (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 20, 2016

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Review by Matt C. One Way Trip is like videogames’ answer to the stoner road trip movie – those classic films like Up in Smoke, Harold and Kumar, and Dude, Where’s My Car?. If you take that to mean that One Way Trip is a bizarre, nonsensical trip that could…

Review: Metroid Prime: Federation Force (Nintendo 3DS)

September 20, 2016

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Review by Matt S. This was not the game that Metroid fans were looking forward to. Metroid Prime: Federation Force is clearly a game that Nintendo had thrown together on the cheap in order to fill in a gap in the release library – both for the 3DS itself, and…

The other games I trialled at Tokyo Game Show this year

September 20, 2016

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Previews by Matt S. In addition to the time I spent at the Koei Tecmo booth at Tokyo Game Show, I also took the time to go around some of the other booths and try out games that didn’t have too much of a lineup. Naturally that meant I wasn’t…

All-female protagonist September: Severed’s Sasha

September 20, 2016

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Blog by Lindsay M. I’ve been steadily making my way through Severed as September moves forward. It’s not uncommon to find me (when I should be sleeping) with my iPad in one hand while the other furiously slashes at the screen. I was stoked when Severed was released on iOS…

Retro Reflections: On one of my first hybrid genre games

September 19, 2016

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Retro reflections by Nick H. One of the really cool things my dad did for me as a kid was rent me a new NES game just about every weekend. It was a cheap way to play a lot of different games, and I’d get them finished, too, as video…

Review: Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (Sony PlayStation 4)

September 19, 2016

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Review by Clark A. Famed writer of anime and visual novels, Gen Urobuchi, has a penchant for dark, perverse themes. Those familiar with the man’s portfolio may label that a gross understatement as his works range from deconstructions of the innocent magical girl subgenre to relentlessly grotesque Lovecraftian horror. Though…

I toured the Koei Tecmo booth at Tokyo Game Show, and it was great

September 19, 2016

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Previews by Matt S. Koei Tecmo was kind enough to provide me an all-access booth tour at TGS this year, so that I could test out all its upcoming games without waiting in line (and, frankly, that was important because I simply didn’t have thirty minutes to wait in line…

Catch-up coffee Monday: September 19, 2016

September 18, 2016

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News by Lindsay M. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly news feature, Catch-up coffee Monday. Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and…

The top 100 of all time! How many have you played?

September 17, 2016

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And just like that we have completed our list of the 100 greatest games of all time. It was a difficult list to pull together, to be sure, as there are so many great, important games out there. So many games needed to be left off the list, but we…

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