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).
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)!…
Grizzly Man is the fourth title in LCB Game Studio’s Pixel Pulps series, beginning a second trilogy titled “Pixel Pulps DTV Collection.” (DTV is short for direct-to-video.) It is a psychedelic slasher game about a former MIB agent who was severely injured in a mysterious attack, waking up with full…
Idea Factory International is bringing otome visual novel Battlefield Waltz to the…
Set in an alternate 19th-century Japan near the end of the Boshin…
Last week, I wrote about early details on the remake of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakening. There were some brief story details, and a promise of a crowdfunding campaign and trailer to come soon. Well, soon is here, the Kickstarter is live, and the trailer has dropped!…
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Square Enix has announced a reimagining of a phenomenal tactics RPG, Tactics Ogre. (DDNet did report on a leak regarding this game a couple of weeks ago.) Titled Tactics Ogre: Reborn promises beautifully converted HD graphics, fully-voiced cutscenes in English and Japanese, recreated sound effects and re-recorded background music. There…
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We knew a bit about Samurai Maiden a few days ago; it was teased by D3 Publisher as being a new “project” and we believed to have deciphered the title at that time – and we were right! D3 Publisher has officially announced Samurai Maiden, a hack’n’slash game that follows…
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I haven’t written about Hokko Life for over two years (it was in a catch-up coffee in 2020). The game is very, very customizable life sim about starting over in a new place. Players come to Hokko to settle into a new home (customizable!) and turn the village into a…
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Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. With each issue I will bring you the best news that you may have missed. 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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Okay, everyone, it’s time to stop playing Stray for half an hour to learn about its publisher’s upcoming titles. Games other than Stray that Annapurna Interactive has published lately includes Telling Lies and Twelve Minutes. The publisher is on fire lately, and I’m excited to see what game announcements, closer…
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War be damned, Frogwares isn’t going to stop what it does best: make Sherlock Holmes games. This time, it’s a remake of one of the developer’s past titles. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened originally launched in 2006, and this fully updated version will share the same name. It’s got everything you’d…
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Prinny Presents NIS Classics is a series I can really get behind. Bringing older generations of games to current consoles is never a bad thing for a couple of reasons. One, archiving! Two, it introduces new players to the games that influenced what they may currently be playing. For example,…
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It was first announced last April, but we finally have a release date for Wylde Flowers on PC and Nintendo Switch – this September! I cannot tell you how many hours I put into this game; I went full on Animal Crossing and had spreadsheets of things to remember and…
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Circus Electrique has intrigued me from the beginning. The publisher described the game as part story-drive RPG, part tactics, and part circus management; and it’s not like there’s tons of circus-themed turn-based tactical management RPGs floating around out there. I’m so interested in it, that it made my list of…
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