Digitally Downloaded – Your specialist source of news and reviews for games, anime, manga, film and literature

A screenshot from R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos, provided by NISA.

01.04.2026

Sci-fi strategy collection R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos launches in the West this June

NIS America has announced a mid-June launch date for R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos’ debut for PC and modern consoles. The two-game collection includes two classic R-Type Tactics titles, each equipped with fleets of warships ready to deploy over dozens of levels. Take on the Bydo Empire or even play as them yourself. Either way, their fates are in your hands. The collection will be released for PC, PlayStation. Nintendo Switch, and Xbox.…

Keep Reading

Latest

Sci-fi strategy collection R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos launches in the West this June

April 1, 2026

News/NIS America

NIS America has announced a mid-June launch date for R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos’ debut for PC and modern consoles. The two-game collection includes two classic R-Type Tactics titles, each equipped with fleets of warships ready to deploy over dozens of levels. Take on the Bydo Empire or even…

The cover art for Today I Became a Bird.

Children’s storybook adaptation The Day I Became a Bird launches this April

April 1, 2026

News/Numskull Games

Hyper Luminal Games, Numskull Games, and PASSION Games have announced that heartfelt narrative adventure game The Day I Became a Bird will launch in mid-April for PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. A new trailer about the tender tale has also been revealed. The game is based on the French storybook…

Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park (Nintendo Switch 2)

March 30, 2026

Nintendo/Nintendo Switch 2/platformer/Reviews

This is the first time I have played Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and I feel fortunate for that, as this has been an unmitigated delight to experience for the first time, especially now that it has the multiplayer stuff added into it. The result is a big package of Nintendo…

A newly-cropped version of Dee Dee in the DDNet news studio.

The catch-up coffee: March 30, 2026

March 30, 2026

catch-up coffee/News

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)!…

Gadget review: LucidSound LS10X Wired Gaming Headset

March 27, 2026

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gaming headsets are an incredibly broad spectrum, running from well over $1000 down to the rough cost of a trip to McDonalds. Given that we’re in a cost-of-living crisis and staring down the barrel of global conflicts brought on by resurgent fascism, it’s a safe bet that people are going…

Superhero workplace comedy game Dispatch is coming to Xbox this year

March 27, 2026

News/Xbox Series

During today’s Xbox Partner Preview 2026, AdHoc Studio announced that its superhero workplace comedy game Dispatch is coming to Xbox later this year. The game is by the writers and directors of games like The Wolf Among Us, and is set in modern-day Los Angeles.…

A screenshot from Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream of multiple Miis jumping and cheering.

A demo is now available for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

March 27, 2026

News/Nintendo

Nintendo has released a Welcome Version of the life sim Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, which is a demo for the upcoming title. It is available now for Nintendo Switch. Save data will transfer from the demo to the full version of the game upon release. The Welcome Version allows…

Review: Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War (Nintendo Switch 2)

March 26, 2026

FPS/Nintendo Switch 2/Reviews

Satire is a difficult challenge for a game developer. On the one hand, the satire needs to criticise the subject. On the other hand, if the game feels too good to play, it is very easy to feel like a celebration of the subject instead. If you were to undermine…

Honogurashi no Niwa is coming West as Village in the Shade

March 26, 2026

News/NIS America

Publisher NIS America has announced that it is bringing Japanese spooky farming sim Honogurashi no Niwa to Western territories this (Northern) fall as Village in the Shade. Developed by Nippon Ichi Software, best known for Disgaea and Phantom Brave, Village in the Shade will be released for PC, PlayStation, and…

Pokémon Champions launches for Nintendo Switch in early April

March 25, 2026

News/The Pokemon Company

The Pokémon Company has announced that free-to-start battle game Pokémon Champions will be released for Nintendo Switch in early April, with a free graphic update for Switch 2 players. The game brings the core Pokémon battle experience to the masses, including Pokémon types and abilities. The company has also revealed…

1 2 3 … 1,628 Next

Reviews

Review: Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park (Nintendo Switch 2)

March 30, 2026

This is the first time I have played Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and I feel fortunate for that, as this has been…

Review: Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War (Nintendo Switch 2)

March 26, 2026

Satire is a difficult challenge for a game developer. On the one hand, the satire needs to criticise the subject. On the…

Review: Ariana and the Elder Codex (Sony PlayStation 5)

March 24, 2026

If you were to ask me what genres I think developers should take a very long break from, most days I would…

Review: Tales of Berseria Remastered (Nintendo Switch)

March 20, 2026

Tales of Berseria was the moment that Bandai Namco’s long-running Tales series finally started to grow on me. It was the narrative.…

Videos

Podcast-in-Video: Getting nostalgic for Xenogears

December 6, 2023

Xenogears is an all-time classic, but the question is… could something like that even be made again today? That’s what we discuss…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we loved through 2023

December 5, 2023

As it is the last month of the year, it’s time to look back at all the games that were released this…

Interview with the producer and director of Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Podcast-in-Video: The big game releases in December

December 5, 2023

Apologies that we’ve been absent from uploading these videos. Various technical issues prevented us from doing a video version of the podcast,…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we wouldn’t play on the train

September 7, 2023

Got a Nintendo Switch? At some stage you’ve probably taken it out in public. After all, gaming on the go is very…

Interviews

Haunted by Lost Futures: Cherrymochi’s Jen Williams on Dusk Index: Gion

February 16, 2026

Jen Williams has seen the future, and like many of us, she’s worried about it. The studio lead at Cherrymochi, the Japan-based…

The key art for Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, cropped to a 16:9 ratio.

On reimagining the beginning with Dragon Quest I & II

November 9, 2025

When Square Enix revealed the Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, there was always the sense that they weren’t going to be done…

Q & A with the developer of Minos, where you get to be the minotaur

October 9, 2025

You can always trust Devolver Digital to back interesting, quirky and different projects. One recent example of this is Minos, which is…

TGS 2025 Interview: Carrying the Somnium Torch: Kazuya Yamada on Making No Sleep for Kaname Date – From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES

October 7, 2025

The AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES series is inseparable from the creative identity of Kotaro Uchikoshi. Known beyond AI for the cult-classic Zero…

Gadgets

by Matt

March 27, 2026

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget review: LucidSound LS10X Wired Gaming Headset

Gaming headsets are an incredibly broad spectrum, running from well over $1000 down to the rough cost of a trip to McDonalds. Given that we’re in a cost-of-living crisis and staring down the barrel of global conflicts brought on by resurgent fascism, it’s a safe bet that people are going to indulge less and make more compromises to enjoy a…

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget Review: Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless mouse

There’s light, there’s lighter, and then there’s the Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless mouse. I’d go as far as to say that “Ultralight” is probably underselling it. It doesn’t actually feel like there is anything in this mouse, at all, and yet it does its job, very well, both…