Digitally Downloaded – Page 851 – Your specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature

Funcom’s The Park coming to consoles early next year

November 19, 2015

Funcom, the legendary Swedish developer behind the critically acclaimed and widely enamored The Longest Journey, will be releasing their recent offering, The Park, on consoles. It is its first console outing in a decade (its last console game was Dreamfall: The Longest Journey on the Xbox in 2006). Related reading:…

Review: Sword Art Online: Lost Song (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 19, 2015

Artdink/Bandai Namco Games/JRPG/PS4 Review/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 4/Sword Art Online: Lost Song

Sword Art Online: Last Song hits a lot of really comfortable notes along the way, making some improvements to gameplay over the original game that should make it more accessible to most players. However, the target audience here is clearly fans of the source material, and others might not come…

Gadget Review: SCUF 4PS (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 19, 2015

controller/Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/SCUF/SCUF 4PS

I can think of no single gaming genre more competitive than the shooter right now. Certainly there are games out there such as MOBAs, MMOs, sports and more that have their intense, passionate fan bases, but as someone who has friends who adhere to just about every genre out there,…

Review: Kromaia Omega (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 19, 2015

3D shoot 'em up/Kracken Empire/Kromaia/Kromaia Omega/PlayStation/PlayStation 4 Review/PS4/PSN/Reviews/Rising Star Games/SHMUP

Kromaia Omega deserves a gold trophy and a plaque that reads “most ambitious shoot ’em up of the decade”. It’s not as though the genre is starved for novel ideas; there have been countless shakeups to the classic 1980s arcade formula with titles like 99 Bullets and Everyday Shooter that…

Review: Anno 2205 (PC)

November 18, 2015

Anno/Anno 2205/PC/PC Review/Reviews/simulation/strategy guide/Ubisoft

Hello everyone and welcome to the future! The air is clean, the water is clear, global warming – or its new moniker “climate change” – has been stemmed off with initiatives to keep the arctic cold through advances in technology and careful regulation. Life is great! So get comfortable because…

The Japanese Film Festival 2015: Australia’s premier film event

November 18, 2015

Australia/film/film review/Japan Film Festival/Japanese Film Festival/Sion Sono

Over the last couple of years, the annual Japan film festival, which brings some of the most impressive films from Japan to Australia, has become one of my most anticipated events of the year. In 2015 it didn’t disappoint. Related reading: My interview with one of the organisers of the…

review-poncho-sony-playstation-4

November 18, 2015

2D platformer/Indie/platformer/Poncho/PS4 Review/Reviews/Rising Star Games/Sony PlayStation 4

I love ambitious games, I really do, and Poncho is nothing if not ambitious. From the very beginning it evokes a sense of wonder through its lavishly designed sprites and Mode 7 parallax scrolling, taking you through a great cataclysm before throwing you into the shoes of Poncho, a small…

oxenfree-coming-to-pc-and-xbox-one-in

November 18, 2015

News/Night School Studios/Oxenfree/PC/Xbox One

I have fond memories of yelling “Olly olly oxen free!” as a child. After all, that phrase meant it was safe to come out of hiding without fear of being penalized while playing hide-and-seek. It was also shouted by Newman before he jumped into the pool (and onto the pool…

preview-layers-of-fear-microsoft-xbox

November 17, 2015

adventure game/adventure games/Horror/Layers of Fear/Preview/Xbox One

I am just going to put everything on the line right out of the gate: Layers of Fear is not easy to play. Actually, let me correct that: it isn’t easy to play if you’re a giant wimp, much like myself. I’ve played my fair share of games in preview,…

review-zodiac-orcanon-odyssey-apple-ipad

November 17, 2015

Indie/iPad/iPad Review/JRPG/Reviews/Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey

I first got a taste for Zodiac two years ago, where, as a freshly announced game, it occupied a major-sized booth at Tokyo Game Show. Buggy as it was back then I saw an awful lot of potential in it as a 2D RPG with similar production standards that won…

Latest