News Matt S. Here’s a bit of news we missed when it was first unveiled, but caught up on at E3. Daedalic Entertainment announced Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun in March this year. This is a game with some serious potential; it’s a tactical strategy game coming to both…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We are big fans of Shantae here at DDNet. Wayforward’s pet franchise started out as a humble Game Boy Color title that was largely overlooked, then landed as digital downloads on Nintendo’s handheld consoles, before finally making its way to the big screen via ports to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We knew that Nintendo would have a thin showing at E3 this year – the company admitted as much well before the show by confirming that it would not have the NX ready to show there. Related reading: Matt’s review of the excellent The Legend of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Harvest Moon series has struggled a little of late. The iPhone release was good enough fun, but the last 3DS outing, The Lost Valley, which was heavily inspired by Minecraft, did not go down well at all. Meanwhile, Story of Seasons, a Harvest Moon game…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of our favourite fighting games in recent years is Injustice: Gods Among Us. By the same developer as the sublime Mortal Kombat series (NetherRealm Studios), Injustice was a brutally dark fighting game, with a great fighting system, and an interesting narrative that really did justice…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. This is a conversation that needs to happen. Hours after the recent horrific terror attack in America, E3 began, and E3 showed a lot of violence. A lot. This isn’t to say that there is a cause-and-effect here. I.e. No one is saying that video games…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. There are a bunch of really good looking games that have been shown off at E3 this year that missed out on getting a showing in Sony’s show. But Sony has been busy promoting the games through other means, and we felt that it would be…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sony’s E3 show was the most impressive this year. It wasn’t just for the quality of the games that it had to show off. It was the the sheer quantity as well. Where the other businesses putting on shows padded out the presentation with…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Sony had a truly great showing with its E3 showcase this year, with blockbuster after blockbuster managing to delight audiences for almost 90 minutes, with barely a moment of people on stage talking about stuff as filler. But I had issues with it nonetheless, which I’ll…
Read MoreWelcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Uploaded podcast, companion podcast to the www.digitallydownloaded.net website. We recorded this week’s podcast ahead of E3, but we felt that there was no point talking about anything else, because that is all anyone is going to be talking about this week. So,…
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