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June 14, 2016

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Opinion by Matt S. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sony’s E3 show was the most impressive this year. It wasn’t just for the quality of the games that it had to show off. It was the the sheer quantity as well. Where the other businesses putting on shows padded out the presentation with…

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June 14, 2016

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News by Matt S. It’s Japan-only for now (sigh), but we do have a release date for the hugely anticipated Hatsune Miku VR: Future Live. Even if I’m the only one that cares about Miku VR I’m hyping it up enough for everyone. So, yes, it’s hugely anticipated. After all,…

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June 14, 2016

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News by Matt S. Sony had a truly great showing with its E3 showcase this year, with blockbuster after blockbuster managing to delight audiences for almost 90 minutes, with barely a moment of people on stage talking about stuff as filler. But I had issues with it nonetheless, which I’ll…

This week on the DDNet podcast: We played the E3 predictions game

June 14, 2016

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Welcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Uploaded podcast, companion podcast to the www.digitallydownloaded.net website. We recorded this week’s podcast ahead of E3, but we felt that there was no point talking about anything else, because that is all anyone is going to be talking about this week. So,…

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June 14, 2016

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Sony wraps up this 2016’s E3 conferences with a presentation distinct in tone from the others. There weren’t any dancing clowns, comedy bits, or ten minute speeches. Heck, the in-game dialogue outweighed the presenters by a significant margin, I’d wager. Sony put its full focus on the latest blockbuster experiences…

Just Dance 2017 gets a Hatsune Miku track and life is good

June 14, 2016

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News by Matt S. In an otherwise deeply unenjoyable Ubisoft conference (seriously, give it a rest with the completely arbitrary open worlds, guys), Just Dance got to be a highlight. Related reading: Miku comes to Just Dance 2016 (last year’s game). No, I’m not joking. I genuinely enjoy Just Dance,…

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June 13, 2016

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News by Matt S. It would take a lot to drag me away from Overwatch at this stage. I’ve never been so intensely involved in a multiplayer combat game before. But the existence of Overwatch isn’t going to stop the absolute flood of other multiplayer combat games from washing over…

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June 13, 2016

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Say what you will about Ubisoft’s presentation at E3 this year, but it was certainly…unique. The show opened with a distinctly bananas dance performance featuring monocle-wearing giraffes, crabs, and angel-clowns prancing to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now. Yes, really. This eventually led into Just Dance 2017. The game will be…

Review: Neon Chrome (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 13, 2016

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Review by Matt C. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been spoilt by this industry’s current fascination with ‘80s-inspired retrofuturistic settings, but with a name like “Neon Chrome”, I was expecting something far more garish than what this top-down, twin-stick shooter delivered. I was expecting to be inundated with fluro pinks…

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June 13, 2016

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As usual, Microsoft is the first of the “big three” game console manufacturers to hold its E3 presentation. While a large number of would-be “reveals” were regrettably (or intentionally) leaked days beforehand, the company still managed to put on a reasonably newsworthy show choc full of trailers and two hardware…

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