Digitally Downloaded – Page 784 – Your specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature

Preview: Gataela (PC)

June 30, 2016

Android/Canada/Gataela/Indie/iOS/JRPG/PC/PC Preview/Preview/RPG/windows tablet

Preview by Lindsay M. Gataela has been thriving for several years after the war that selected its ruler. While the victims of war still struggle to recover, trading has been on an upswing and everything seems to be on the mend. At least, until Zack Chen learns that people are…

The best ten games from the first half of 2016

June 30, 2016

1979 Revolution: Black Friday/Atelier Sophie/Dark Souls 3/Dead or Alive Xtreme 3/Fire Emblem Fates/list/Overwatch/Project Diva Future Tone/The Witness/Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE/Top 10/Unravel

List by Matt S. So, the first half of the year is now done. And, to be honest, it has been one of the best starts to a year for games that we’ve ever seen. From the most niche of Japanese otaku games, through to the biggest blockbusters you can…

Review: Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo Wii U)

June 30, 2016

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games/Nintendo/Nintendo Wii U/Olympics/Reviews/Sega/sports game/Wii U Review

Review by Matt S. The Olympics is one of my favourite events when it rolls around every fourth year. It’s an opportunity to get right into sports I don’t normally get to watch, and, with fond memories of the Sydney Olympics back in 2000, I also get a nostalgic rush…

Review: Asemblance (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 29, 2016

Art Game/Asemblence/Indie/PlayStation 4 Review/Reviews

Review by Matt C. Asemblance is a weird, weird, weird game. It’s the sort of game that you can run through and “finish” in 20 minutes when you know what to do, but can spend hours upon hours digging through to find all that it has to offer, and chances…

Short ‘n sweet reviews: Sherlock Holmes, Pac-Man, One Piece, Dino Dini’s Kick Off and Pocket Jockey

June 29, 2016

Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival/One Piece: Burning Blood/Pac-Man 256/Pocket Card Jockey/Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Reviews by Matt S. Welcome to this week’s short ‘n sweet reviews, where I look at a number of games that I’ve been playing that I just haven’t got the time to do give full reviews to. These aren’t necessarily bad games – not at all! But rather they are…

on-geolocation-ar-and-future-of-gaming

June 29, 2016

AR/Australia/DDNet Premium/geolocation/Ingress/Interview/Interviews/Niantic/Pokemon Go

Interview by Matt S. When Ingress was announced back in 2012, I am certain that a lot of people dismissed it a gimmick or fad. As much fun as it might sound to have a game that tasks you with wandering over the real world to specific locations to achieve…

Preview: Meridian: Squad 22 (PC)

June 28, 2016

Early Access/Indie/Meridian: Squad 22/PC/PC Preview/Preview/RTS/Strategy

Preview by Pierre-Yves L. Taking place after the events of the game’s predecessor, New World, Squad 22 sees a unit, creatively titled “Squad 22,” deployed to the far off world of Meridian in order to find out what happened to the research team that preceded them. From there, you’ll be…

new-i-am-setsuna-characters-revealed

June 28, 2016

Artwork/character art/I Am Setsuna/News/PC/PlayStation 4/Pre-order exclusives/Project Setsuna/Square Enix/Steam/Tokyo RPG Factory

News by Lindsay M. It’s like Square Enix was reading my mind: just yesterday I thought, “Hmm, I Am Setsuna is out soon but things have been relatively quiet on that front.” And bam! the publisher drops a boatload of new goodies to showcase the upcoming game by Tokyo RPG…

Review: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone (Sony PlayStation 4)

June 28, 2016

Crypton/Hatsune Miku/Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone/PlayStation 4/PS4 Review/Reviews/rhythm game/Sega

Review by Matt S. Before I get into the body of the review (because I have a lot to say about this game, so settle in with a coffee, everyone), I want to say this to summarise from the outset: Hatsune Miku makes me happy. By that I mean that…

This week on the DDNet podcast: All about hard games!

June 28, 2016

DDNet/difficulty/Digitally Uploaded/game difficulty/hard game/podcast

Welcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Uploaded podcast, companion podcast to the www.digitallydownloaded.net website. One of the more popular discussions that we have in the games industry is around the topic of difficult games; what makes a game difficult, what is the difference between “good” difficulty and “bad”…

Latest