Originally announced for a Western release in December 2024, K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut was supposed to launch in 2025. Here we are, in 2026, but the good news is that it will be released this year. With the widespread love of K-pop Demon Hunters, it’s a great time for the game’s debut! K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut…
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…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here,…
I honestly don’t accomplish a whole lot in one year. But the one-person developer of The Nameless: Slay Dragon sure must, because they’ve been working on the turn-based RPG for three years and it’s nearly complete. The game was announced today and is set to be released for PC via…
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Princess Peach deserves more airtime. Yes, the movie helped, but she hasn’t had her own game in nearly two decades (the last time was 2005’s Super Princess Peach). It’s well past due. Princess Peach: Showtime! was announced back in September 2023 at a Nintendo Direct. The thing I love about…
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Unfortunately, because I was away last week, I didn’t get a chance to review Another Code: Recollection in time for the embargo lifting. It’s unfortunate not because I missed out on the initial rush of clicks when being one of the first to review a game of a decent profile.…
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The preservation of video games is a subject that’s near and dear to my heart. Not just in some kind of dusty academic sense, either. I’m a keen retro gamer, and I truly do think that there’s huge benefits for all audiences to take in the breadth of gaming history.…
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Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet have been available for some time now, and The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC concluded last month. Or did it? As of today, the DLC’s epilogue is available to play. With it comes a newly discovered Mythical Subjugation Pokémon, Pecharunt. It’s actually quite cute!…
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Some licensed games aim to introduce people to the property, and in doing so help to expand the overall number of fans the thing has. Koei Tecmo has been particularly successful at that over the years, applying the Warriors (Musou) formula to several emerging IP. Arslan: The Warriors of Legend,…
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One – also known as Kagayaku Kisetsu e – is one of the legends of the visual novel genre. Originally released way back in 1998, it was one of the early projects by a developer called Tactics, which is notable because many of the creative team moved on from that…
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Most of the time, Kemco is the publisher that churns out cheap and tacky JRPGs that make RPG Maker projects look professional. And it does them at a shockingly fast rate. And then, every once in a while, it discovers something that is genuinely interesting. Raging Loop is a hell…
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Cults and sinning seem to go hand in hand. Sure, some of them claim to follow the bible – but they also tend to make up rules that work for them rather than actually interpret and understand what is obviously in front of them. Cult of the Lamb is freaking…
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Terra Nil is a story of hope that we sorely need right now. Despite an almost endless stream of warnings over the last few decades, humanity continues to treat climate change’s real and growing threat with blase indifference. The Paris Accord in 2015 was meant to be a turning point,…
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