Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. 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)!…
Today’s Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct highlights Mii character creation with new customization parts, island building, player-created items, and more. It also announces a mid-April launch date. This is the first new entry in the Tomodachi Life series in more than 10 years.…
Developer Cygnus Cross has announced an Early Access release window of (Northern)…
Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja have dropped a large amount of new…
Nightmarish twin-stick shoot-em-up roguelite NeverAwake FLASHBACK began as DLC for the first NeverAwake game, but it seems as though fan demand pushed Phoenixx and Neotro to make it an entire sequel. It will now be released as a full, standalone sequel for PC before the end of the year. More…
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Solo developer Thomas Waterzooi worked for AAA development studios in the past, including Larian Studios (Baldur’s Gate 3) and IO-Interactive (Hitman). He left because he wanted to create wholesome, casual indie games — and I’d say he’s found his sweet spot showcasing real-world artworks in an approachable manner. He invited…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. 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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Give me a musical, narrative-driven adventure game and I’ll be quite pleased. Throw in renovating an old hotel using a weird gun, a spray-painting mechanic, and spooky ghosts, and I’ll be chomping at the bit to play… as I am when it comes to There Are No Ghosts at the…
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I fell in love with Squeakross: Home Squeak Home during last year’s Wholesome Direct, so much so that I couldn’t stop thinking about it a week after its PC announcement. At the time, I pointed out that it was the perfect game for Nintendo Switch… and now it’s available for…
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Due to ongoing health concerns, I am unable to provide full coverage for most showcases this June. However, Wholesome Games’ Wholesome Direct is so darned… wholesome… that it couldn’t be left untouched. This is the showcase’s fifth year. To date, it has featured 375 games and raised over $200,000 US…
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Super-stylish heist game Snap & Grab was announced today during Day of the Devs 2025. The game takes players to luxurious locations across the world, where they will snap photos of valuable items, evaluate threats, and arrange the perfect heist, without ever returning to the scene of the crime. Thanks,…
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Publisher Annapurna Interactive and BAFTA-winning Aussie indie developer Beethoven & Dinosaur have revealed a new trailer for their upcoming game, Mixtape. It follows a group of teenage friends on their last night together, replaying their past; it promises to be a mixtape in terms of narrative, gameplay, and music. The…
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Capcom has announced Resident Evil: Requiem. This is the ninth title in the series, and it’s bringing things back full circle. In that I mean the game features a return to Racoon City. Or, at least, seems to. The game’s announce trailer features the destroyed rubble of the city. It…
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As far as multiplayer with a bunch of randoms goes, social deduction games are probably my favourite. The nature of these things encourages players to play by the rules and behave (at least to an extent), so you tend to run into fewer experience-breaking arseholes. Or at least, that’s been…
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