News by Matt S. Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we 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…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Since the very earliest days game music has been a critical part of the experience. Right from those classic 8-bit tunes in the original Final Fantasies and Super Marios people have craved classic music to accompany their bouncing, bopping and battling. As the visual and narrative…
Read MoreAs voted by you! Through the month of November, we asked for you to vote for your favourite games of the year. You did (and in incredible numbers – thank you for that), and now it’s time to announce the finalists and the winners. Each day we’ll be revealing a…
Read MoreIn my humble opinion it was bad timing to release Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation at the same time as the PS3/ Xbox 360/ PC game. I get that the two games link together to help further Ubisoft’s virtual world, but the console titles did such a blockbuster job and set…
Read MoreI was not a fan of the previous Assassin’s Creed game at all. That game was, like a Michael Bay film, loud, brash and thoroughly devoid of anything interesting behind its bombastic action. So I was genuinely surprised to find that Assassin’s Creed III is more like a Joss Whedon…
Read MoreDing dong, the witch is dead. The overlord has been slain. The counter-terrorists win. Ubisoft has announced that their always-online DRM has been officially scrapped. In an interview with PC gaming website Rock Paper Shotgun, Ubisoft has confirmed that its digital rights management solution, which forced users to have a…
Read MoreSorry America, you might miss out on getting your hands on this Two bits of news over the past day, and more specifically the reaction to that news has once again made clear to me a start divide between the gamer and the game maker. It’s become almost an us-and-them rather…
Read MoreThe new trailer for Ubisoft’s upcoming third (numbered) entry its popular Assassin’s Creed series delivers some Independence Day flavor just in time for the 4th of July. I’m honestly not sure what the “this Fourth of July, ignite the revolution” means since there’s nothing going on with the game until…
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