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February 2, 2016

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From a two-woman company on the Gold Coast of Australia comes Quantum Suicide, a Japanese-style visual novel. I am absolutely delighted to be able to share this news for three reasons: one, an all-female indie development company; two, the company is based in Australia; and three, the game looks really…

Play-Asia import review: Miracle Girls Festival (Sony PlayStation Vita)

February 2, 2016

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Miracle Girls Festival really wants to make you hate your favourite kawaii anime. Pulling together the adorable girls from 11 different popular anime, including Vividred Operation, Nyaruko: Crawling With Love, Wake up, Girls! and YuruYuri, and sticking them on a stage so they can perform the various music tracks from…

Review: Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight (Nintendo 3DS)

February 2, 2016

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Each of the Etrian Odyssey games have proven themselves to be very fine titles in their own right, but it’s starting to get difficult to shake the feeling that they are also the equivalent of the blockbuster in the dungeon crawler space. The development team seems to be increasingly uncomfortable…

Danganronpa’s PC release date set (and it’s soon!)

February 2, 2016

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I come bearing some brief – yet wonderful – news: Danganronpa has a firm release date for its PC version. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc will be available on Steam February 18. Spike Chunsoft has also given us a glimpse at the trading cards and badges for the game: As someone…

Review: Croixleur Sigma (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 1, 2016

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Croixleur Sigma, which originally released upon the PC last year, has now made its way to both Sony’s PlayStation 4 and its Vita. Featuring a mysterious tower that acts as a spawning ground for monsters to pour out of, in this game you’ll be exploring and battling with one of…

On the music of Duet

February 1, 2016

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Duet is a decidedly simple indie game that sees you guiding two coloured orbs around static and moving obstacles, and these are abstract in the extreme; they amount to no more than squares and rectangles. Despite the minimalism and simple gameplay, the naming of the levels after the Kubler-Ross Model…

Review: Zombie Vikings (Sony PlayStation 4)

February 1, 2016

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It was another normal day in Valhalla. Odin was pimping out his staff with glitter until Loki walks into the door, accusing Odin of using glitter again. He then goes on a rant asking why they can’t just hang out like family before promptly stealing Odin’s Eye and waltzing out…

Catch-up coffee Monday: February 1

January 31, 2016

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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! The biggest-selling game of the…

The Friday Ten: Ten ways to make Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 a better game

January 29, 2016

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Dead or Alive Extreme has always been a divisive series – it’s the pet project of Tomonobu Itagaki, but it also pushes the boundaries of voyeurism in games to a completely new degree. But hey, if we’re going to have a pet project we might as well make it interesting,…

Review: Megadimension Neptunia VII (Sony PlayStation 4)

January 29, 2016

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Gametrailers recently included the Hyperdimension Neptunia series in a “top 10 game franchises that need to die” clickbait feature. What utter nonsense; as we can see with Megadimension Neptunia VII, the series continues to go from strength to strength, and you don’t let a series “die” when it’s doing that.…

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