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 MoreReview by Matt S. Harvest Moon (and the genre it spawned) is great, because Harvest Moon is a sentimentally meditative game. You enjoy a homey little life in the far-flung countryside, where you run through a daily routine of milking cows and tending to onions. Morning chores done, you head…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Indie developers have a wonderful ability to come out of nowhere and surprise us with a game that looks amazing, and is announced just days before it’s actually released. Such is the case with The Stillness of the Wind, a game that releases on February 7…
Read MoreWe had lots to talk about this week! First we talk about Fortnite and addiction (and the media’s horrid handling of both topics), and then move on to really excellent games that are hard to motivate yourself to play. We also chat about the new character additions to Dead or…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Natsume has released a trailer for its upcoming Harvest Moon: Light of Hope, the latest in that venerable franchise, and the first to be released on both Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. After a fair few years of resting on the 3DS and other mobile platforms,…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. The latest in Nastume’s Harvest Moon series, Light of Hope, is branching out from PC to the PlayStation 4 and Switch; Rising Star Games will be the publisher for Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. This new “Special Edition” will have new features to make it…
Read MoreReviews by Matt S. With all the excitement surrounding the Nintendo Switch, it’s easy to forget that the 3DS is still having games regularly released on to it – and I’m not just talking about Nintendo’s own games, like Fire Emblem Echoes, either. Each week we’re getting new 3DS games…
Read MoreReview by Clark A. For over 20 years, Story of Seasons (aka the artist formerly known as Harvest Moon) has served as a light-hearted farming simulation that is inherently addictive. Caring for a barnyard might not sound tantalising on paper, but the series allows players to curate which simple routines…
Read MoreList by Harvard L. Who doesn’t love a good slice-of-life anime? A genre wildly popular in Japanese fiction, slice-of-life novels, anime and manga centre around the pleasure of watching ordinary, day to day interactions between people. Rather than explore adventures, battles and conflicts, slice-of-life stories eschew manufactured tension to fall…
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…
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