Digitally Downloaded – Page 896 – Your specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature

Review: Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy (PC)

June 10, 2015

Black Lab Games/Paul Turbett/PC Review/Reviews/Star Hammer/Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy/Strategy/tactics game

Many years ago now (well, four), a small Australian developer from Perth produced one of my favourite PlayStation Minis games. Black Lab Games’ Star Hammer Tactics was a space faring tactical strategy game that might not have looked like much, but it provided some great value to fans of the likes…

Preview: LEGO Worlds (PC)

June 10, 2015

LEGO Worlds/Minecraft clone/PC Preview/Preview/Traveller's Tales/TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

The word LEGO means different things to different people – and that is by design. As someone who grew up with these tiny connectible bricks, I have many fond memories of building a variety of landscapes for my toys to play in. The possibilities were limited by only my imagination…

E3 2015 expectations: Dean’s thoughts

June 9, 2015

E3/E3 2015/E3 expectations

Each year in the week leading up to E3 we like to get the DDNet team to share some thoughts about the show, an what they’re expecting to see, or would like to see happen. Unlike our recent Friday Ten, these are more genuine thoughts, based on what we already…

Preview: Through the Woods (PC)

June 9, 2015

Horror/Indie/PC/Preview/Survival Horror/Through the Woods

Through the Woods is an upcoming psychological horror game developed by Antagonist, combining elements of Nordic folk tales, family drama and scary looking trees. You play as a mother claiming that her son had been taken by a supernatural being named Old Erik, recounting her story to a detective who…

no-square-enix-dont-make-more-free-to

June 9, 2015

F2P/Figure Heads/Free-to-play/Multiplayer/multiplayer only game/Multiplayer shooter/Shooter/Square Enix/trailer/Trailers

Le sigh. Square Enix is a truly awesome publisher and is really getting its groove back after some really odd experiments through the later PS2/ early PS3 era. After all, in just the last two years, amongst a dozen other projects, Square Enix brought us Life is Strange and had…

digital-eclipse-is-back-and-is-doing

June 9, 2015

archive/Capcom/Digital Eclipse/Mega Man/News/Retro

Digital Eclipse is a name that the older game players out there will likely remember; it was a publisher that focused on remaking arcade games and the like at the time where arcade games were a big deal. It was absorbed into Backbone Entertainment in 2003, and the brand disappeared.…

Review: Looney Tunes Galactic Sports (Sony PlayStation Vita)

June 9, 2015

Looney Tunes/Looney Tunes Galactic Sports/minigame compilation/minigames/PlayStation Vita/Reviews/sports game/Vita Review

It’s always a bad sign for a console when the manufacturer’s own interest in it has dropped to publishing games like this. Looney Tunes Galactic Sports isn’t terrible, but it’s almost the dictionary definition of a something thrown together quickly to cash in on a license. Which is amusing in…

E3 2015 expectations: Pierre-Yves’ thoughts

June 8, 2015

E3/E3 2015/E3 expectations

Review: Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven (Nintendo 3DS)

June 8, 2015

3DS Reviews/JRPG/Lord of Magna/Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven/Marvelous Entertainment/Nintendo 3DS/Reviews

Purely as a curiosity, before we even talk about its merits as a game, Lord of Magna is an essential purchase for any fan of Japanese RPGs, because it’s a game that should have never happened. It was in its early stages of development at Neverland (the company behind the…

Review: The Swapper (Microsoft Xbox One)

June 8, 2015

2D platformer/Indie/Microsoft Xbox One/platformer/puzzle platformer/Reviews/The Swapper/Xbox One review

The Swapper is an interesting science fiction-themed Metroidvania that has finally made its way to the Microsoft Xbox One after having already released on most other platforms over the course of the past two years. Related reading: We have a review of the PlayStation 3 release as well, for a…

Latest