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Understanding Final Fantasy X; its three key philosophical underpinnings

June 1, 2015

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With the recent re-release of Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation 4, I’ve had an excuse to play the game yet again. I’m not quite sure how many times I’ve actually played Final Fantasy X through since my first run on the PlayStation 2, but it’s surely more than a…

Review: Desktop Dungeons (Apple iPad)

June 1, 2015

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Desktop Dungeons is brilliant. It is so incredibly simple, and so incredibly basic, and yet it is brilliant. Brilliance. Genius. It’s going to be one of the finest games you could ever play on your iPad, and sadly it’s going to be completely overlooked because it’s also being sold for…

Dragon Quest XI on PlayStation 4 false report causes Square Enix stock price to leap through the roof

June 1, 2015

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Dragon Quest is a big deal in Japan. A very big deal. For example, there’s a reason that there’s that popular urban rumour that the Japanese government outlawed the release of a Dragon Quest game on a school/ work day: each new “proper” game in the series really does sell…

Review: Schrodinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 31, 2015

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Ah, that difficult old beast that is comedy. One of the challenges in building a comedic game is that no one has the same sense of humour, and what is funny to one person (or group of people) is not necessarily funny to another. Worse, if a comedy isn’t funny,…

The Sunday screenshot gallery; May 31

May 30, 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 games of June: Uh oh…

May 29, 2015

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If you thought you were going to get a break to follow E3 this year, you were sorely mistaken. In fact, June is going to be one of your busiest months for gaming yet. From the very final Neverland project, to two full MMO experiences, visual novels, Batman, bikini zombie…

The resurgence of pinball, the vinyl of games

May 29, 2015

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Bowral is a town that’s a two hour drive from the CBD of Sydney, Australia, and about forty minutes away from the city’s furthest suburbs. Between the edge of the city and this little country town of around 15,000 people you’ll drive past farms, even smaller villages, and then some…

Review: Game of Thrones: Episode Four – Sons of Winter (Sony PlayStation 4)

May 28, 2015

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The first episode in Telltale Games’ Game of Thrones series had stood as my favourite – until now. While the first did an excellent job of setting the stage, the last couple of episodes in the series were well-written and voice acted, but progression seemed minimal. In many ways they…

I’ve launched a Patreon – if you like my writing please consider backing me!

May 28, 2015

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I’ve been doing Digitally Downloaded for a couple of years now, and the site has achieved some truly significant things in that time. It has grown, been listed on Metacritic and Game Rankings, and then grown some more. It has also reached the point where we really do need additional…

Now that the Vita is a “legacy platform,” it’s absolutely the most underrated console ever

May 28, 2015

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Sony Computer Entertainment’s President and Global CEO, Andrew House, has called the PlayStation Vita a “legacy console” for every market outside of Japan and Asia. In doing so he effectively killed off any chance of a major western publisher again putting any real energy into the device going forward, by strongly…

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