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Review: Shadow Warrior (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 31, 2014

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Review by Matt S. Whoever was involved in the visual direction of Shadow Warrior deserves a massive raise. There is no game that is more fundamentally beautiful on the PlayStation 4 than Shadow Warrior’s remake. I found myself spamming the “share” button on the PlayStation 4 controller with every new…

Review: Skylanders Trap Team (Sony PlayStation 4)

October 31, 2014

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Review by Matt S. I feel a little sorry for Toys for Bob, the developers of the Skylanders franchise. After coming up with what was nothing short of a brilliant commercial idea (a game that relies on collectible miniatures!) Skylanders proved itself to be too popular. Now Skylanders needs to…

Review: Jet Car Stunts (Sony PlayStation Vita)

October 30, 2014

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Review by Brad L. When I was a young lad, I had a Commodore 64. On that Commodore 64 I had about 300 games that my mum and dad had a family friend get (totally legally) for me to play. Of these 300 odd games, I believe I managed to…

Review: Bayonetta 2 (Nintendo Wii U)

October 30, 2014

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Review by Matt S. A tall, beautiful woman stands in the middle of a circle of angelic beings. With guns in both hands and the heels of her shoes, she is a whirling dervish of death, tearing apart the angels with impunity. The size of these creatures is irrelevant as…

Anime review: Nisemonogatari (DVD)

October 30, 2014

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Review by Matt S. Circadas chirp in the background as the camera cuts sharply from one angle to the next, as the scene is set of a typical warm, humid day in suburban Japan. And indoors there’s a brother and sister that have set themselves a bet. The brother has…

Review: Sunset Overdrive (Microsoft Xbox One)

October 30, 2014

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Review by Nick H. If any genre was in need of ‘something different’, it was the shooter. Sunset Overdrive succeeds in multiple ways, because the team has found a way to fuse several different elements into the gameplay and managed to create something different both in how the game handles,…

Trailer: The nurturing beauty and survivalist melancholia of Shelter 2

October 30, 2014

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News by Jedediah H. Nature is the most fabulous collection of phenomena. Without the trespass of human influence, she offers every organism within her biosphere a fair chance at life or death. No animal is preferred over another. Even the noblest (and cutest) of creatures perish before they can pass…

Digitally Downloaded has published 5,000 articles!

October 29, 2014

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News by Matt S. This is an entirely self-indulgent news post, but I thought it was pretty cool to note anyway; Digitally Downloaded today has published its 5,000th article. When DDNet was started five years or so ago, as a little blog for fun, I had no idea that it…

Interview: King Dinosaur Games: Reclaiming the World With Smooth Machinations

October 29, 2014

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Interview by Jedediah H. Other than a water balloon fight in the midst of a drought, there’s nothing quite like playing the ideal good guy/ girl. You get to wear fashion-forward attire, fall in love with a personified version of elegance, morality, and tenacity, and maybe towards the end, before…

Trailer: Final Fantasy Type-0: Enter the Fray, prepare for the blood

October 29, 2014

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News by Jedediah H. Because the Final Fantasy series is responsible for my induction into the world of playful gaming participation (I was mostly an observer, watching my brother play, before FF II for the SNES), I keep an eye on the birth and development of just about anything related…

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