You know how the saying goes: When it rains, it pours. Somehow, after decades of Culdcept barely being acknowledged outside of Japan, we’ve now had two releases in as many months. Culdcept Begins has become an instant favourite among my online board game group, displacing even the mighty Wingspan some nights (that’s the game we’ve spent more than 2,000 hours…
During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, LEVEL-5 announced a December release date for its upcoming puzzle game, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam. It will be available digitally, with physical copies available only in Japan and only for Switch 2/Switch. The game is set one year after Professor Layton and…
It has been six long years since Fate/EXTRA Record was announced. It’s…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here,…
It’s been three years since the last Fire Emblem (Engage). In a world of annualised franchises, that’s almost quaint, given how commercially successful the series is for Nintendo, but I’m very glad that Intelligent Systems is given the time to explore what it can achieve with its property. Fortune’s Weave…
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Publisher NIS America has announced that it will bring Nippon Ichi Software’s 2D platforming adventure game GOBBLE to the West for PC and consoles. The game will launch in 2027. In Japan, it will be released on September 24. In Gobble, explore a hand-painted world full of life. But don’t…
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Western publisher NIS America has announced that rural life simulation game Village in the Shade will launch for PC and consoles this October. The game initially launched in Japan about two weeks ago as Honogurashi no Niwa, with sales already surpassing 100,000 units in that country alone.…
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The Touhou Project continues to be one of the most interesting experiments in the video game industry. It’s been going since 1997, and that means it’s on the cusp of 30 years. In that time it’s had more than a game released every year… and that’s just the “main” titles,…
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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)!…
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I generally keep my opinions out of news stories, but I must express my excitement that the sequel to TOEM is launching in about a month and a half! The first game is perhaps the happiest, coziest, most wholesome game I have ever played. And today, Something We Made announced…
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Today, PQube and Crinkle Cut Games released a major free update for the quirky supermarket life sim Discount. The People or Profit? Expansion launched last month for PC via Steam, and is now available for PC via GOG/Epic, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series, and Xbox One. It…
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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)!…
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Idea Factory International has announced a late-October release date for the Western version of 9 R.I.P. sequel. A promo trailer has also been revealed. The promo trailer features CGs and multiple voice previews of the nine love interests in the game. 9 R.I.P. sequel will be available digitally and physically…
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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…
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