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Why I have deep concerns about Yooka-Laylee

May 4, 2015

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the weekend (or using your weekend to do something offline, in which case I tip my hat to you), then chances are that you’ve heard about Yooka-Laylee. The newest darling of the Kickstarter phenomenon, Yooka-Layleee is a game that is being developed…

Review: Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle (PC)

May 3, 2015

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Almost everyone remembers playing with sliding puzzles when they were young. Those small, square puzzles with pieces that slid to reveal a picture were anywhere from so easy a toddler could do it to so mind-bendingly frustrating nobody could figure out what needed to go where in order to solve…

The games of May: the best month of games yet in 2015

May 1, 2015

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There’s not a massive line-up of games to look forward to in May, but it’s the best month of games for the year to date. We start off with Shin Megami Tensei and Wolfenstein, before moving on to Project CARS, the third Witcher game finally gets a release, and a…

why-i-wrote-game-art

May 1, 2015

Books/Game Art

As I suspect most readers of Digitally Downloaded are aware, for the past year-and-a-bit I have been working on a book about games. Called Game Art, it’s a book of interviews with various game directors, producers and artists, presented as essay-style discussion pieces, and accompanied by visual art works from…

Review: Amiibo Touch & Play (Nintendo Wii U)

May 1, 2015

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Screw it. I wasn’t going to review this ‘game,’ because it’s free and it doesn’t even have microtransactions. But then I started playing with it, and felt compelled to write something about it, because I cannot fathom why Nintendo would expend the resources and energy to create this thing. It…

Review: Hakuoki (Apple iPad)

May 1, 2015

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Hakuoki is one of the better visual novels out there. An otome game (as in a game that is targeted towards women, in which a female character needs to form a romantic bond with male characters), Hakuoki comes to us from Idea Factory, and has the distinction of being one…

Trailer: Onechanbara Z2: Chaos in English is delightfully B-grade

May 1, 2015

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NISA has released an English trailer for its upcoming Onechanbara Z2 action game (the same game will be published by XSEED in the US). And it’s immediately obvious that the bikini-clad girls voice actors are playing this one up for everything that it’s worth. Onechanbara has, of course, been a…

Review: Infinity Runner (Sony PlayStation 4)

April 30, 2015

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If you look at Infinity Runner’s trailers and read its concept, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s something of a cross between an endless runner, Mirror’s Edge, and Mass Effect. In concept we’re promised a fast-paced sci-fi action game, with goons to beat up, even as you help…

Koei Tecmo’s Deception IV headed to PS4… and enhanced

April 30, 2015

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Of Koei Tecmo’s extensive library of titles, the Deception franchise is perhaps one of the least well known. And that’s a pity, because while the last game in the series (released on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita) was flawed, it was a flawed gem that we enjoyed a great deal.…

review-elliot-quest-nintendo-wii-u

April 30, 2015

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There is a very fine line between homage and slavish devotion. Both might come from the same place; a deep love of a particular game (or film, book, or otherwise), but where a homage uses that love to creative effect, to forge its own identity and often build on the…

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