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July 6, 2015

Hi everyone! Thanks to everyone that has already filled out the DDNet mid-year reader’s survey; your responses have been incredibly useful in giving us a picture of what you love and would like to see on the website. We want this site to be the best possible resource for our…

Review: Fort Meow (Apple iPad)

July 6, 2015

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Cats. So many cats. Black cats. Fat cats. Cat+cats. Melon-headed cats. That’s what you’ll find in Fort Meow, a physics-based puzzler developed by Upper Class Walrus, released for Apple’s iPad by Surprise Attack Games. Humans tend to have strong opinions on cats. Either you adore their little meows, loud purrs,…

Funstock.co.uk announces retro gaming tablet for under £100

July 6, 2015

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Nostalgic fans, who grew up with games, love new ways to play old favourites, and the Blaze Tab may just scratch that endless itch. Priced at £99.99 (that’s UK dollars), this 16GB Android tablet allows you to play games from your favourite past consoles such as the NES, GameBoy Color,…

Catch-up coffee Monday: July 6, 2015

July 5, 2015

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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s newest weekly feature, Catch up coffee Monday! Each Monday we will bring you the best news from the previous week that you may have missed. What better thing to do with your Monday morning coffee then catch up with us? LKA announces The Town of Light…

The Sunday screenshot gallery; July 4

July 4, 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…

The Friday Ten: My favourite PC racing games (2000-2009)

July 3, 2015

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The racing game genre is one of the oldest and most persistent in gaming. It has been around almost as long as people have been able to manoever around little blobs of colour, and it’s easy to understand why – it’s fast, it’s action-filled, and it’s one of the most…

Interview: Mr. Tired Media on Kickstarter, JRPGs and visual novels

July 3, 2015

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Earlier this week we reported the exciting news that a team of ex-NISA staffers had started up their own studio in order to realise the dream and make their own game. Undead Darlings, a mix of dungeon crawler and visual novel, is to be the first game of the newly…

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July 3, 2015

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It’s tough to compete with League of Legends and DOTA in the MOBA space. Very tough. Those two games absolutely dominate the competitive eSports industry, and both are worth a small fortune. But that hasn’t stopped some other developers trying, and one of the most effective to date has been…

review-ronin-pc

July 2, 2015

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After doing some research up on RONIN and finding out that it’s a “turn-based platformer”, I initially thought Steam had made some error. Such a genre combination couldn’t possibly exist. And yet, in this stylised stealth title by Tomasz Waclawek and published by Devolver Digital, the spheres of turn based…

Review: Shantae: Risky’s Revenge (Sony PlayStation 4)

July 2, 2015

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One of the many books I probably shouldn’t have read as a youngster, but did anyway, was One Thousand And One Nights. I was a big fan of Disney’s Aladdin, and when I head that Aladdin came from this book (along with a bunch of other stories), I went and…

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