Lindsay picked up an NES controller for the first time at the age of 6 and instantly fell in love. She began reviewing GBA games 20 years ago and quickly branched out from her Nintendo comfort zone. She has has developed a great love of life sims and FMV titles. For her, accessibility is one of the most important parts of any game (but she also really appreciates good UI).
Don’t Nod is aiming for heightened emotions in Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and considering its track record with narrative titles, I’d say it will push past the boundaries of the stories it has told in the past. The game will launch in two tapes (parts) in early 2025; Bloom will be released in February, and Rage will follow one…
Delays in the game industry are a dime a dozen, and the indie rookie detective game Paper Perjury is no different. It was planned for an October 2024 release, which was bumped to a November launch date and then to a December launch window. Hopefully, the announced December date will…
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I…
The folks over at Devolver Digital have very creative minds, as evidenced…
Story-focused adventure game Maid Café on Electric Street has you quitting a toxic workplace to live a leisurely daily life at the run-down Fuwa Fuwa Café, a cozy place in Nipponbashi, Osaka. There is a lot of news about the upcoming game today: the release date, the voice cast for…
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Starting a game in the middle of a story arc often means remembering details from predecessors. Some people remember every single major or minor plot point, while those like me may only remember a handful of the major plot points and almost no minor ones. NIS America is solving the…
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Past collaborations between Eastasiasoft and Idea Factory have been quite good. There are many in recent memory, including titles such as Moero Crystal H and Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom. Today, Eastasiasoft announced that the Compile Heart-developed dungeon-crawling JRPG Tokyo Clanpool will be ready to launch for PC 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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The RPG Maker series is a great introduction to game development, providing you with all the tools, coding (or “events”), and assets needed to make your own full-fledged game. In his five-star review of the latest title, RPG Maker WITH for Nintendo Switch, DDNet editor-in-chief Matt praises its ease of…
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I’ve been playing hidden object games to chill out for twenty years. They may soothe my mind, but they don’t remain there — everything blurs together over the years. A few titles in the genre have stood out recently (such as Crime O’Clock), but Hidden in my Paradise raises the…
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Xenoblade Chronicles X, first published for Wii U in 2015, is an anomaly in the Xenoblade Chronicles series. It is a standalone sci-fi story set in a separate universe from Xenoblade Chronicles, published after the first game but before Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna — The Golden Country,…
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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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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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