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Review: MLB 15 The Show (Sony PlayStation Vita)

April 19, 2015

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Having recently visited America, I did my best to appreciate a lot of the culture that yells “AMERICA”. And while I certainly enjoyed a lot of it (I already am a huge fan of ice hockey), the Americans certainly made baseball, an otherwise interesting twist on cricket (a sport that,…

The Friday Ten: Ten fine PlayStation Minis for your consideration

April 17, 2015

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When it was released in 2004, the PlayStation Portable was the new shining toy for the cool dude. The first handheld in the PlayStation line of gaming consoles by Sony, the PSP, just like its console siblings, has had a healthy run and a surprisingly balanced library. There was something…

Review: Football Manager Classic 2015 (Apple iPad)

April 17, 2015

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People often criticise the annual updates for sports franchises. “Why buy FIFA each year?!?” they proclaim with the righteousness that so characterises ‘gamer’ community, suggesting that their taste in games makes it apparently impossible to comprehend that other people might in fact have their own reasons to enjoying – and…

Review: House of Caravan (PC)

April 16, 2015

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I’m not normally the one to jump the gun at trying out a horror game, or anything that could potentially provide jump scares or even just suspense. Yet, here I found myself playing a game that could realise all these fears at once. From the moment that I stepped into…

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April 16, 2015

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Now that we’re fully in the swing of the new generation of consoles, the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii are starting to fade from mainstream coverage. The (many) classics that those consoles threw up will be remembered as classics, of course. No one will forget about Uncharted, Dark Souls…

Why it is a problem that Australia has no AAA studios left

April 16, 2015

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Today brought some sad news indeed: 2K Games has shut down its Canberra-based development studio, 2K Australia. 2K Australia was best known for the very good Borderlands: The Pre Sequel, a popular PlayStation 3 game that was recently re-released on the PlayStation 4 as part of The Handsome Collection. But…

Pandora’s Tower releases on the Wii U Virtual Console this week, and here’s why you should buy it

April 16, 2015

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I know that Xenoblade Chronicles is considered to be the pinacle of JRPGs on the Nintendo Wii, but if you ask me, as good as that game is, it’s not the best at all. Pandora’s Tower, released very late in the Wii’s life (and, if you’re in America, after the…

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April 15, 2015

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Personally, I still feel that the games that have effectively use the Wii U gamepad are few and far between. Wii U games rely too much on the novelty of being able to push everything off one screen and onto another. Affordable Space Adventures, however, uses the gamepad to manage your…

Dead or Alive, Mortal Kombat, Sexualisation and Violence

April 15, 2015

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Mortal Kombat X has just released. It is really a very good game, as I highlighted in my review. It’s also incredibly violent. Mortal Kombat X is as excessively violent as Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, released a few short months ago, is excessively sexualised. What I have found…

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April 15, 2015

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DotEmu is a very productive developer and publisher, and has been responsible for some really great games on mobile devices. Remember that mild addiction that all of us at Digitally Downloaded had to Heroes of Might & Magic 3 HD on the iPad at the start of the year? That…

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