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Catch-up coffee Monday: November 30

November 29, 2015

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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! Pokemon Picross coming to 3DS…

The Friday Ten: Looking back at ten of the best PSP titles

November 27, 2015

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The PSP was a beast of a console. As with its successor, the PlayStation Vita, the PSP went through its life being quite under appreciated (and unsupported) in the west (and by western developers), but the Japanese loved it, so the Japanese developers used it as an opportunity to cheaply…

Looking back at Dead or Alive Paradise

November 27, 2015

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With the controversy that has erupted around Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 this week (specifically, the fallout from the announcement that it would not be released out west), I felt it was also a good time to look at one of its predecessors, to try and unpack why the series…

DDNet Game of the Year Awards 2015! PlayStation Vita Game of the Year

November 26, 2015

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This year – 2015 – has been one of the finest years for games ever. The new console really hit their strides, and we saw some superb games really start to leverage the power that they offered. At the same time, the independent developers really started to break out and…

Review: Tenshu General (PC)

November 26, 2015

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Tenshu General is a real time strategy game modelled after tabletop wargames like Risk, set in the Edo era of Japan and featuring up to four players simultaneously vying for superiority. Developed by Dutch indie studio Smart Game Studio B.V., Tenshu General is a slow paced RTS focused more on…

Review: Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Second Chapter (PC)

November 26, 2015

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Fans of the series have been waiting for a long time for the localisation of the second chapter of Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. Having announced only a week prior to its release that it was finally here, the Second Chapter has been made digitally available on both…

DDNet Game of the Year Awards 2015! Nintendo 3DS Game of the Year

November 25, 2015

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Review: Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires (Sony PlayStation Vita)

November 25, 2015

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Around nine months after the game landed on the PlayStation 4, Koei Tecmo has finally launched Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires on the PlayStation Vita. Chances are, if you’re a fan of the Warriors games, you’ve already played this on console, but it’s worth double dipping, because it suits the handheld…

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – First Assault Online will be available on PC soon

November 25, 2015

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It’s one heck of a mouthful, but Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – First Assault Online is a game worth keeping an eye on. It is licensed from the series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which, in turn, was based on Shirow Masamune’s comic The Ghost…

New screenshots for Megadimension Neptunia VII

November 25, 2015

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With 2016 fast approaching, so is the next game featuring Gamindustry and dear Nep-Nep. Megadimenion Neptunia VII is due for its English-language release early in the year. Related reading: Matt’s review of the most current Neptunia game, Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3: V Generation. For your viewing pleasure, here is the…

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