Review by Matt S. The first Dynasty Warriors on the PlayStation 4 isn’t a main numbered Dynasty Warriors game. The Xtreme Legends subtitled games have traditionally acted as “expansion packs” for the main numbered Warriors games, in that they offer much more content without changing any of the fundamentals of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Tecmo Koei has confirmed the release date for the upcoming Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends. In Australia and New Zealand, it will be available on Vita, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 on April 3. A couple of things worth noting about this game; it’s a stand…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. We are massive fans of Warriors games at Digitally Downloaded. Or, more accurately, I am. I don’t know about the rest of the team. Anyway, I digress. When Nintendo announced that it was working with Tecmo Koei to produce a Warriors game set in the Legend…
Read MoreTecmo Koei has been one of the more consistently profitable developer/ publishers in Japan in recent years. This trend continues with the company posting a 10.9 per cent year-on-year growth in sales for the first quarter of the financial year. That growth, to 6.5 billion yen, generated the publisher a…
Read MoreAtsushi Miyauchi, director of Dynasty Warriors 8, likes Australia. The first time he visited it was for his honeymoon. Now he’s down under a second time, to speak to media at the first PAX Australia about the imminent release of Dynasty Warriors 8, a game that from early reviews and…
Read MoreTecmo Koei’s Warriors franchise has settled into a comfortable rhythm. Every couple of years we get a new numbered release. The last one of those, Dynasty Warriors 7, we got our hooks into in 2010. From there the team takes that engine and applies it to a number of spin-off…
Read MoreEveryone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. We haven’t done lists for a while at Digitally Downloaded, but then I thought to myself “what better way to pass away some time on a Friday afternoon than with a little list?” And so,…
Read MoreAs anyone who knows me knows, I’m a big (understatement) fan of Tecmo Koei’s Warriors games. I just have to play every single one that is released, and to date, the iPhone and the iPad have been my own gaming devices Warrior-less. That all changes today. In Japan, Dynasty Warriors…
Read MoreRecently, the PlayStation Vita was reported to have sold 2.2 million units worldwide. By no means is that a runaway success, but I find myself disappointed by the increasingly-vocal group of people claiming doom on Sony’s handled. It’s clearly never going to outsell the 3DS, let alone the iPhone or…
Read MoreTecmo Koei’s Warriors formula is really hitting its stride now. The games are earning new fans thanks to some spectacular gameplay, and the quality of outside franchises such as One Piece and Gundam are encouraging fans of those properties to look into some of the other games in the series.…
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