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)!…
Games anthology The Immortal John Triptych brings together Four Last Things, The Procession to Calvary, and Death of the Reprobate. It comes complete with never-before-seen bonus features, deleted scenes, and a Quality of Life (QoL) facelift. The “gloriously silly” anthology will be released later this year for consoles.…
Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco have announced an early September release date…
Over the weekend, Japanese developer/publisher FuRyu announced CRYMELIGHT, the latest installment in…
For the entire prelaunch hype cycle behing Stray, if you mentioned “the cat game”, people knew exactly what game you were talking about. It seemed like the perfect mix of cute & cuddly, since it was about a furrball, and a contrasting cyberpunk dystopian aesthetic, complete with funky (and also…
Read MoreI’ve yet to lose a match in Matchpoint Tennis, and that’s the game’s one substantial flaw. Unfortunately, that one issue effectively ruins it. What’s the point of a sports game that is so lacking in difficulty that there’s no risk of a loss? The entire genre is meant to be…
Read MoreThe launch date for Sword and Fairy: Together Forever is imminent; we’ll have our hands on the western console version within a month! The game is the seventh in a 26-year-old RPG franchise from China. Think Final Fantasy but with a blend of ancient mythology and traditional Chinese aethestics. Sword…
Read MoreSquare Enix has announced the release date for the latest in the Star Ocean series. Star Ocean: The Divine Force will launch on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PC (via Steam) on October 27 worldwide. Sadly, no Switch release, which is a big pity. The publisher…
Read MoreThe biggest problem with Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel is that it lacks an identity of its own. The developers are clearly fans and students of the horror genre, stretching all the way back to Resident Evil, and have done a passable job of building a warm homage to it.…
Read MoreSpellforce III is one of those games that, even a generation ago, would have been inconceivable as a console release. The game’s blend of RTS and RPG mechanics would have been deemed too complex for a controller to bother with, and the developers and publishers alike would have assumed that…
Read MoreNext week is a busy one: as of now, there are eight showcases we’ll be covering (mostly on the weekend of June 11-12). Sony was smart to stay out of that mess and scheduling its State of Play for today instead, allowing all eyes to be on PlayStation. What am…
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When Matt S. reviewed White Day: A Labyrinth Named School for PlayStation 4, he described it as “a masterpiece in building tension and in the way that it plays within the classical approach to horror, without relying on jump scares and endless bloodshed.” PQube is now bringing the game to…
Read MoreSquare Enix continues on its drive to remake, remaster, or re-release just about every game from its classic library. The next title to get a makeover is Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song. A game that many fans would say is one of the best of the publisher’s best B-tier JRPG property.…
Read MoreA massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure, Temtem has been in Early Access for over two years and it is finally time for a full launch. It’s similar to Pokémon in a lot of ways, but also has it’s own unique features and charm. The game is now nearly ready for its…
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