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Review: Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water (Nintendo Wii U)

November 9, 2015

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I have an fascination with water. Give me a camera and I can spend a whole day photographing the ocean, a river or a waterfall, for example. It’s not just that water is so essential to life that it appeals to me; it’s the aesthetics of water that I find…

Catch-up coffee Monday: November 9

November 8, 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! eastasiasoft’s Lost Sea is looking…

The Sunday Screenshot Gallery: November 8 edition

November 7, 2015

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Sharing screenshots is fun. In fact, the screenshot feature is in many ways the best feature that has been added in to this generation of consoles. It’s fun to share gameplay experiences, amusing anecdotes from the games, a indulge a little of the inner photographer in us. With that in…

DDNet Polls: The great debates (Saturday, November 7)

November 7, 2015

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Under most of our articles and reviews at Digitally Downloaded, you will see a simple two-option poll, powered by Twitter. There’s a reason for that! Each week we collect together the most interesting poll results for the week and do a little wrap on them for the weekend. That’s what…

Gadget Review: Apple TV (2015) and SteelSeries Nimbus controller

November 6, 2015

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For years Apple has been insisting that its Apple TV product line has been a “hobby”; something that was of personal interest to Steve Jobs, but never an important product category expected to sell millions in its own right. But this year’s iteration is a very different story. I’ve always…

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November 6, 2015

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Some sad news for all of Hidetaka Suehiro, a.k.a. SWERY; the genius behind Deadly Premonition and D4 has announced that he needs to take a break, as he has fallen quite ill. From the Access Games blog: Starting today, I will be taking a short break from game development, in…

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November 6, 2015

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If Eiyuu Senki is the last new release PlayStation 3 game that I play, then the console will have gone out on a high. Looking at the release schedule going forward for the console, it’s very limited indeed, so I do suspect that this will be the last exclusive to…

Review: Divinity: Original Sin – Enhanced Edition (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 5, 2015

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Divinity: Original Sin – Enhanced Edition somehow manages to be an even better game than the already-lauded PC original release, and it makes the transition to console – devices that are simply not used to these kinds of classic Balder’s Gate-era RPGs – wonderfully. There is a distinct quality about…

Interview: The person bringing PlayStation development to students

November 5, 2015

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Last week, we had the big news that Sony, in collaboration with the AIE and developer/ publisher, Nnooo, would be bringing a program called PlayStation First to Australia. The PlayStation First program allows tertiary students to develop and then publish a game on the PlayStation platform, gaining valuable experience in…

Review: WWE 2K16 (Sony PlayStation 4)

November 5, 2015

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WWE 2K16 rights many of the mistakes that showed up in last year’s game. The end result is an entertaining title that still has some room for improvement, but by and large offers redemption for a series that was in need of strong release this year. It is always a…

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