Today, Free Style announced it would launch its multiplayer tag game OBAKEIDORO 2: Chase & Seek to Switch 2 and Switch worldwide this August. The game was originally launched in Japan for Switch 2 last October, and its worldwide release is its first Switch version. Enter an eerie world inspired by Japanese legends for a game of cat-and-mouse. Play alone…
Studio Loading, Kibou Entertainment and Alunite Inc. have announced that retro action-puzzle adventure game Orpheus: To Hell and Back, which was originally released as a physical Game Boy Color cartridge, will be launching for PC via Steam next week. Alunite Inc. will publish for that platform. This is the game’s…
Rhythm roguelike action game Ratatan was scheduled to launch on July 16,…
Goichi Suda and his team at Grasshopper Manufacture have carved out a…
Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos is not your typical Neptunia game. Instead of being classified as an RPG, it falls more accurately into the action genre. The motorcycle combat game is set in a dimension very different from Gamindustri. Many distinct Dogoos are appearing, threatening to cover the land. A lone…
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At the risk of irritating a certain group of fans to the point that I need to lock down the comments box for my own sanity: I have an issue with how a lot of games handle the Warhammer 40K license. Not that I want to get into this debate…
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Without trying to be too controversially political about a game that is really little more than a philosophical manifesto with some gameplay bits and comic book graphics squished in between the lecture, there’s an ugly superficiality about what passes for mainstream left-wing politics in America. Dustborn is a textbook case…
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Every time Starship Troopers pops up as a topic, we get to “enjoy” the most surreal arguments on the Internet as a bunch of people argue that the film is not a satire of fascism, and that the book is not an argument for fascism. These are some of the…
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Shinto is one of those things that most people who know anything about Japan have some vague concept of, but don’t really know anything about. From experience, they’re also rarely interested and that’s depressing. Tourists in Japan do cheerfully visit Shinto shrines, before mistaking them for Buddhist temples (and vice…
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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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I missed the original launch of Slave Zero X, but now that there’s a physical edition for consoles, I’ve had the opportunity and excuse to give it a go. In theory, I should like this, since it’s an anime brawler of big action that allows you to mow down hordes…
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Yeo, the one-man-band indie developer from Russia, is going to be remembered as a far better artist than the relatively muted popularity of his games deserves. Fading Afternoon is his new one, and while it’s a retread of a lot of what makes his first, The Friends Of Ringo Ishikawa,…
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One of the finest examples that I can think of that highlight the differences between Western and Eastern game development, and some of the weaknesses that we as a collective industry have in critiquing video games, is to look at Dante’s Inferno and El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron side-by-side.…
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Stellar Blade very much wants to be a merger of NieR: Automata and the Soulslike formula. It’s a flashy science fiction romp through a decrepit, decaying world, and the ambience is certainly going to be familiar to NieR fans. It’s also undeniably well-made. However, for all the comparisons people have…
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