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22.06.2026

The catch-up coffee: June 22, 2026

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)!…

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The catch-up coffee: June 22, 2026

June 22, 2026

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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)!…

Review: eFootball Kick-Off (Nintendo Switch 2)

June 19, 2026

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One of the best things about eFootball Kick-Off is that it has a global championship mode, structured just like a FIFA World Cup, with all the players and nations you could hope for, without it being a World Cup. You can buy this and enjoy all the thrills of The…

Idle farming sim Petunia’s Purgatory launches for PC next month

June 19, 2026

Indie/News

Created by two former Sims developers, Petunia’s Purgatory is a cozy horror idle farming sim that sits at the bottom of your desktop. Grow crops, sacrifice critters, summon helpers to your cursed farm, and keep Petunia’s sanity in check before the game begins invading your desktop. The game will launch…

Review: The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (Nintendo Switch 2)

June 17, 2026

Nintendo Switch 2/Reviews/Square Enix

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is what happens when the Octopath Traveler team decides they’re going to tackle Zelda next. It’s an incredibly brave project. Zelda doesn’t really need a “spiritual sequel,” with Nintendo very much committed to its continuation. And it’s Nintendo’s single biggest property. To actively…

ATLUS announces the English voice cast for Persona 4 Revival

June 17, 2026

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The Japanese voice cast for Persona 4 Revival is the same as in the original, but in English, there is an all-new voice cast, ATLUS announced today. Recently, the developer/publisher also revealed a February 2027 launch date for the remake. Persona 4 Revival investigates a string of murders, with players…

Electronics repair sim ReStory launches this summer

June 16, 2026

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A demo for ReStory was released as part of this month’s Steam Next Fest today, but that’s not all! There’s a new trailer to celebrate the release, and a summer launch window was announced. ReStory puts you in the role of running your own electronics repair shop in Y2K-era Japan,…

Gadget review: EPOMAKER Glyph

June 15, 2026

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As a professional writer, the experience of writing matters to me a great deal. Especially when I’m writing for pleasure. With the EPOMAKER Glyph, I have a device that I truly, deeply love writing on. The aesthetic appeal of the thing should be obvious without me needing to explain it:…

The catch-up coffee: June 15, 2026

June 15, 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)!…

The key art for K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut.

K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut makes its debut next month

June 12, 2026

News/PQube

PQube and Wisageni Studio have announced a July release date for K-pop idol management sim game K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut. The game invites players to recruit and manage their dream K-pop group on their journey to debut. An updated demo is available for PC and Xbox Series; it…

Cozy metal-detecting RPG The Detectorist Guild announced for PC and consoles

June 11, 2026

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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…

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Reviews

Review: eFootball Kick-Off (Nintendo Switch 2)

June 19, 2026

One of the best things about eFootball Kick-Off is that it has a global championship mode, structured just like a FIFA World…

Review: The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (Nintendo Switch 2)

June 17, 2026

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is what happens when the Octopath Traveler team decides they’re going to tackle Zelda next.…

Review: Birushana: Winds of Fate (Nintendo Switch)

June 10, 2026

Idea Factory and its otome factory, Otomate, is at its best when working with stories based in history. Hakuouki, for example. Or…

Review: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Nintendo Switch 2)

June 2, 2026

I don’t have too much to say about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the Nintendo Switch 2, as I already reviewed the…

Videos

The Last Waltz: See Australia’s finest dancers in action ahead of the game’s release

May 19, 2026

As you all know, I’m working on a visual novel about my great passion in life, Dancesport. After three years and all…

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,…

Interviews

Q & A: Three titles in, The Talos Principle continues to inspire

June 2, 2026

The Talos Principle has always been a series that asks far more of players than simply solving puzzles. Across its first two…

Games are worth preserving! Q & A with SNEG Co-Founder on the Warhammer classics

May 26, 2026

Retro publisher, SNEG, recently brought a slew of Warhammer classics to Steam – many for the first time. SNEG is a prolific…

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…

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June 15, 2026

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget review: EPOMAKER Glyph

As a professional writer, the experience of writing matters to me a great deal. Especially when I’m writing for pleasure. With the EPOMAKER Glyph, I have a device that I truly, deeply love writing on. The aesthetic appeal of the thing should be obvious without me needing to explain it: It looks like a typewriter. What is less readily apparent…

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The catch-up coffee: June 22, 2026

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The catch-up coffee: June 22, 2026

Review: eFootball Kick-Off (Nintendo Switch 2)

Idle farming sim Petunia’s Purgatory launches for PC next month

Review: The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (Nintendo Switch 2)

ATLUS announces the English voice cast for Persona 4 Revival

Electronics repair sim ReStory launches this summer

Gadget review: EPOMAKER Glyph

The catch-up coffee: June 15, 2026

K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut makes its debut next month

Cozy metal-detecting RPG The Detectorist Guild announced for PC and consoles

Reviews

Review: eFootball Kick-Off (Nintendo Switch 2)

Review: The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (Nintendo Switch 2)

Review: Birushana: Winds of Fate (Nintendo Switch)

Review: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Nintendo Switch 2)

Videos

The Last Waltz: See Australia’s finest dancers in action ahead of the game’s release

Podcast-in-Video: Getting nostalgic for Xenogears

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

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

Interviews

Q & A: Three titles in, The Talos Principle continues to inspire

Games are worth preserving! Q & A with SNEG Co-Founder on the Warhammer classics

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

On reimagining the beginning with Dragon Quest I & II

Gadgets

Gadget review: EPOMAKER Glyph

Gadget review: SteelSeries Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2

Gadget Review: SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni

Gadget Review: EPOMAKER Carbonis Mouse