Video by Matt S. I really didn’t think I’d love The Eternal Castle. Nothing about it is a “me” kind of game. And yet… This thing is so damned artful in everything that it does that it’s one of the smartest and most interesting games I’ve played in quite some…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. I haven’t played the commercial release of Sekiro yet. I have a copy sitting on my desk, but having spent the last couple of weeks in Japan I’m still playing catch-up with everything that I need to play for review, and we already have a review…
Read MoreWe get a little bit serious this week. Two of the ongoing debates at the moment in the games industry and community are loot boxes (which are appearing in just about every major game release, it seems), and game difficulty (or, whether Cuphead should be easy or hard). So of…
Read MoreWelcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Uploaded podcast, companion podcast to the www.digitallydownloaded.net website. One of the more popular discussions that we have in the games industry is around the topic of difficult games; what makes a game difficult, what is the difference between “good” difficulty and “bad”…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. To get a full understanding of what Eryi’s Action is and why it exists in the first place, we first need to look at two approaches to games which until recently have been fairly exclusive to Japan. Ever since the platformer genre took off in the…
Read MoreOpinion by Shaan J. I love dying in games. It’s tough to nail down the exact reason though. I didn’t grow up spending much time on the 8 and 16-bit consoles, so the term “NES-hard” never really resonated with me. Those games that I did play were games where death…
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