New Australian studio, Weforge Studio, has launched a Kickstarter for its first title, the very promising-looking “stealth extraction horror” game, Macabre. The developer is aiming for a 2025 release, and there’s a solid concept behind it, if you’re one of those people that enjoy your multiplayer horror experiences. “Trapped within…
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I wasn’t even born until the mid-’80s, but Sprint was still a series of games I could find in an arcade every now and then when I was a kid. I guess that I must not have paid much attention because I didn’t know about its history until I looked…
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“What games have you regretted buying the most?” It’s one of those silly questions that a Twitter account throws out there to maximise engagement (and it worked, with 100,000 views at the time of writing). But it did get me thinking, in the sense of “how can people that claim…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. With each issue I will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
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Watching games progress through development is one of the great pleasures of writing game-related news. I’ve had my eye on indie-developed Garden Witch Life for about three years now. I first heard about it during 2021 when it was known as A Garden Witch’s Life and set to launch for…
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Monkeys in balls going bananas – what is there not to love about the Super Monkey Ball titles?! The next brand-new game in the series, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, is set to unleash a barrel of fun when it launches in June. We already know about its adventure mode…
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Spike Chunsoft knows its way to my heart. Put pretty anime girls in swimwear and, well, I can’t help but buy the thing now, can I? It’s actually a requirement that I do so. So that’s what the Spike Chunsoft team is doing to me in collaboration with MAGES with…
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Oh wow is this news a blast from the past. Slitherine – the developer/publisher of all kinds of niche wargames and strategy titles, has dipped deep into the retro bucket to drop the classic Warlords and Close Combat titles on Steam. Both games were released on GOG previously, so I…
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When Matt reviewed F1 Manager 2023 upon its launch last year, he concluded: “The presentation of the information is accessible and even elegant, but this is an enormously complex sport, and the developers haven’t found a way to translate this so it’s palatable to people who aren’t already deeply invested.”…
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My impatience for, well, anything is well-documented at this point. Waiting five years for a game seemed completely unfeasible but I have done it! I have waited half a decade for Read Only Memories: Neurodiver (ROM: Neurodiver), the sequel to 2015’s 2064: Read Only Memories. When I was offered a…
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