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.…
To start this review with something very personal: My father passed away last week. It’s been difficult, to put it mildly. The reason I bring it up is that Dad absolutely loved Ten-Pin Bowling. Had his own ball, ball bag (I had no idea they made bowling ball bags), shoes,…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here,…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here,…
Since it was announced in October of 2022, I’ve taken every opportunity to write about Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island for over two years — and here’s the best yet! The exploration friendship adventure game about friendship is set to launch on Nintendo Switch and Xbox in addition to PC, and an…
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For better or worse, so much can change in 10 years. In particular, things continue to escalate and become far more bleak when it comes to war. Some of the biggest video game franchises continue to glorify war by literally gamifying it, making violence and death look like a great…
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Tetris Forever is, in one sense, not really a collection of games for Tetris fans. The game library includes multiple different versions of Tetris, which is more like a Tetris spin-off than actual Tetris. There are also three different versions of Hatris, which is categorically not Tetris at all. There’s…
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Who doesn’t love it when a game launches in an unusual way? Morkull Ragast’s Rage is a 2D action platformer where you play as the villain, complete with funny fourth-wall breaks. News of its release date broke today, with the physical versions launching first and the digital versions to follow.…
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For the first time the now-iconic Yakuza series is on a Nintendo platform. To an extent you could question just who this port of Yakuza Kiwami is for, as it is obviously a drop down in fidelity over what is available elsewhere. On the other hand, this has been an…
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Starting a game in the middle of a story arc often means remembering details from predecessors. Some people remember every single major or minor plot point, while those like me may only remember a handful of the major plot points and almost no minor ones. NIS America is solving the…
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Past collaborations between Eastasiasoft and Idea Factory have been quite good. There are many in recent memory, including titles such as Moero Crystal H and Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom. Today, Eastasiasoft announced that the Compile Heart-developed dungeon-crawling JRPG Tokyo Clanpool will be ready to launch for PC and…
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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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I’ve been playing hidden object games to chill out for twenty years. They may soothe my mind, but they don’t remain there — everything blurs together over the years. A few titles in the genre have stood out recently (such as Crime O’Clock), but Hidden in my Paradise raises the…
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Xenoblade Chronicles X, first published for Wii U in 2015, is an anomaly in the Xenoblade Chronicles series. It is a standalone sci-fi story set in a separate universe from Xenoblade Chronicles, published after the first game but before Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna — The Golden Country,…
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