News by Britta S, 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,…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. Atelier Firis: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Journey is going to be a very different game to the Atelier games that you’ve played in the past. At a rate of almost one game per year over the series’ 19-year history, fans have grown accustomed to what…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We don’t even have Atelier Sophie yet (though the game will be released in English very soon – bet you’re looking forward to our review of that), but Dengeki PlayStation has been leaked, and in it, it is announcing that the next Atelier game will be…
Read MoreAbout time, Gust. About time. Japanese magazine, Dengeki, is teasing that it has a whole load of details to reveal later this week on the next Atelier game. Atelier Sophie. There’s a couple of screenshots, and an artistic render of Sophie herself, and that alone is enough to sell us…
Read MoreI thought we could do something a little different this week to our usual game-based countdowns, and have a look at some games that would be perfect as films. Of course, there haven’t been that many good video game movie adaptations out there. There’s a couple of decent ones, for…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you haven’t bought into the Atelier series yet, then March 6 will be the time to do so. NISA is releasing a special trilogy collection, with all three games on one disc, for £39.99/39.99 EUR. The games are, of course, Atelier Rorona, Atelier Totori and…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Developed by Gust according to community feedback from the previous Dusk titles, feedback that will result in an ease-of-entry for newcomers (a simpler menu for synthesis) while ensuring that the combat is fast and strategic for veterans, Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea, the final…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Japanese game development favourite, GUST, has been shut up as a business as part of Koei Tecmo’s acquisition of the company. But don’t worry, the GUST developers will continue to do what they have always been doing – it’s just that they’ll be doing it as…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The original Atelier Rorona was an important game, but it was a raw one. It set up the two subsequent sequels (Atelier Totori and Atelier Meruru), and provided the foundations which would also inform the later Dusk trilogy (Atelier Ayesha and Atelier Escha & Logy are…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Well, that’s a relief. After some speculation that Tecmo Koei would not localise Atelier Rorona Plus, a remake of the fun-but-flawed first game in the Atelier of Arland trilogy, the publisher has announced that we would all be playing the game in June, with the European…
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