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Review: Bound (Sony PlayStation 4)

August 15, 2016

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Review by Matt S. It would be easy to dismiss Bound as being yet another artsy game developed by hipsters that doesn’t play as “cool” as the latest shootybang. I’m sure a lot of people will do just that to it. As usual with artsy hipster games, those critics are…

Review: Cannon Brawl (Sony PlayStation 4)

August 15, 2016

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Review by Harvard L. Right off the bat let’s talk about what Cannon Brawl gets absolutely right – it’s a real time strategy game which doesn’t have the dreaded “buffer zone”: the level of play between a novice player and an intermediate player where mechanical skill trumps actual strategic knowledge.…

Catch-up coffee Monday: August 15, 2016

August 14, 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 Friday Ten: Ten sports we want to see turned into video games

August 12, 2016

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List by Matt S. As I noted earlier this week, for some reason there are an awful lot of sports games that never quite get the attention that they deserve from game developers. While one developer after the next is happy to rollout football or baseball games, when was the…

Can The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse be better than the films?

August 12, 2016

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News by Matt S. Okay, so licensed games don’t have a great reputation, but here’s the thing; there’s actually a couple of movie licensed RPGs that I really enjoy. EA, when it had the license for the Lord of the Rings films (sadly now expired, because EA did great work…

No Man’s Sky is one very special game

August 12, 2016

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Impressions by Matt S. I do have a review of No Man’s Sky coming. Eventually. It’s a game I want to take the time to properly digest before reviewing, but from the time I have spent with it so far, what is blatantly obvious is that this is a powerful,…

Review: Severed (Apple iPhone)

August 12, 2016

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Review by Matt S. Severed is a very special game. Feverish in vision and utterly unique in tone, it’s a mesmerizingly artful, modern and nuanced experience, while simultaneously being the most accessible dungeon crawler you’ll ever play. Related reading: For a second opinion on the game, check out Mikhail’s review…

Review: Nightmare from the Deep: The Cursed Heart (Sony PlayStation 4)

August 11, 2016

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Review by Harvard L. As far as hidden object games go, Nightmare from the Deep: The Cursed Heart is a pretty great one. This PlayStation 4 game is actually a port of a PC title from 2012, which features all the hallmarks of the modern hidden object game genre: a…

Review: Reigns (PC)

August 11, 2016

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Review by Lindsay M. Being a king is easy, right? You would make decisions all day while sitting in a big fancy chair and facing little to no consequences. Unless it’s that throne from Game of Thrones. Sitting in that one must be painful on the butt. Maybe someone would…

The art game canon: On Clock Tower 3 and sexual awakening

August 11, 2016

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Game Theory by Matt S. Unless you’re right into ultra-niche horror games, and have been for a while, it is very unlikely that you’ve played – or even heard of – Clock Tower 3. Released to little fanfare on the PlayStation 2 and doomed to immediate obscurity from middling reviews,…

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