PQube is partnering with developer Full Stop Studios to publish its cozy village-life RPG, The Detectorist Guild. It is set in Yorkshire at the turn of the millennium; the game puts you into a quintessential British village with your handy metal detector, where you can find lost treasures and unravel a local mystery. Today’s announcement trailer showcases the gameplay loop…
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)!…
Welcome to my first-ever highlight article for Fellow Traveller’s Story-Rich Showcase! Being…
Every new presentation this week seems like the best, and Wholesome Games…
Fast-paced top-down roguelike shooter Driveloop takes you through post-apocalyptic cityscapes to fight through insane mechanical hordes of steampunk-inspired robots was set for a Q2 2025 launch; that window has now narrowed to April 2025. The developer describes the game as a blend of vehicular combat and strategic customization where players…
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At the beginning of October, D’Avekki Studios released a demo for the PC version of Dark Nights with Poe and Munro. I knew something was up — why would you release a demo for a game that is years old? — but I didn’t know what. The studio’s fourth 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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Today’s annual Level-5 Vision event is subtitled “To the World’s Children.” The idea is that games aren’t just for children, they’re also for adults who never lost their inner child. Recently, the publisher has been delaying many of its games, some repeatedly. I normally understand delays but with this many,…
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Solo developer Andre Gareis and publisher Dear Villagers have partnered together to launch narrative, non-linear detective game Mindcop. Set to launch later this year for PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch, Mindcop puts you in the shoes of the titular detective, trying to determine which of a camp’s inhabitants is a…
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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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Today’s second (now-annual) Panic Games Showcase shows off recent and upcoming titles being published by Panic. (In case there’s any confusion, the date in the title is for Australia and the date in the header image is North America.) All the games overlap with last year’s presentation, which you can…
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Today’s Nintendo presentation was a big one: it included a 20-minute Nintendo Indie World Showcase and a 20-minute Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase. One pattern that’s emerged: there are too many collections of past titles! Every game mentioned will be released for Nintendo Switch; most are likely to be released for…
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Pixel-precision platformer Symphonia was originally set to launch in early 2024, but that time has since come and gone. Today, Sunny Peak and Headup Games announced a new release window for Symphonia, confirmed launch platforms, dropped a PC demo, and revealed a new trailer. The demo gives you an introduction…
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Action RPG game Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution first launched in the West last May, but only for PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Today, it was revealed that the game will also be getting an Xbox launch – both physically and digitally! This game is all about building a game studio to…
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