News by Matt S. A small, but not insignificant bit of news. We already knew that Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrific, Ninja Theory’s brilliant descent into the underworld, is coming to Nintendo Switch, and now we know the exact date that it will land: April 11. Hellblade tells the story of Senua,…
Read MoreLast week Hellblade was released, and it absolutely blew us away with the way it treated mental illness, and various other themes within the game. We kick off this week’s podcast exploring just how that game impacted on us, and how incredibly different it is to almost anything else we’ve…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. At the end of the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western world. In the margins of the community, at the gates of cities, there stretched wastelands which sickness had ceased to haunt but had left sterile and long uninhabitable. – Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization…
Read MoreList by Matt S. I’ve got to say that 2017 has been one of the finest years for gaming that we’ve ever seen. NieR: Automata, Yakuza 0, Persona 5, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, God Wars, and a host of others have kept us incredibly busy in the…
Read MoreNews by Britta S. and Ginny W. 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…
Read MoreNews by Davis A. and Britta 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…
Read MoreNews by Britta S, Trent P, 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…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Over the past year, Ninja Theory has been busting its talented, brawny buttocks developing Hellblade, an independently published, AAA quality, narrative-driven skilled-based hack ‘n’ slash that has a female protagonist I like to describe as “a sturdy yet appealing powerhouse.” Today, the studio has released a…
Read MoreNews by Jedediah H. Ninja Theory, the skilful developer of DMC, Heavenly Sword, and the under-appreciated (by my wacky estimate) Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (which is leagues better than the film inspired by the same novel), has been busting its talented, brawny buttocks working on what it describes as…
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