Dragon Quest Heroes is surely one of our most anticipated games at Digitally Downloaded. Half Dragon Quest, half Warriors game, it promises to be much like Hyrule Warriors on the Nintendo Wii U: a truly entertaining bit of fan service for existing fans of the venerable series. Luckily for us…
Read MoreHi everyone! This is just a quick note to let you all know that over on Gamasutra’s blog section, there’s one of the many interviews from my upcoming book, Game Art, for your reading enjoyment. The interview is with Alex Norton, an Australian game developer who created the procedural masterpiece…
Read MoreAlthough the PlayStation 3 is most certainly on its last legs, there are a couple of remaining games on the horizon that are well worth getting excited about. One of those is Eiyuu Senki, a strategy JRPG in which the world’s greatest military leaders (from King Arthur to Nobunaga Oda)…
Read MoreEarlier this week we reported the exciting news that a team of ex-NISA staffers had started up their own studio in order to realise the dream and make their own game. Undead Darlings, a mix of dungeon crawler and visual novel, is to be the first game of the newly…
Read MoreAussie independent studio, League of Geeks, has enjoyed significant success with Armello. After a successful Kickstarter and PC launch of the board-game-with-cute-animal-heroes, now it’s coming to the PlayStation 4 platform, complete with additional features and characters. Games like this one, and Hand of Fate before it, have been very positive…
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Toren, a new, independent game from Brazil, and I was completely blown away by it. It’s the kind of arthouse game that very much speaks to me, and is part of a growing body of evidence that game developers from all over the…
Read MoreRecently, gumi Asia’s port of SEGA’s Chain Chronicle hit a milestone; one million downloads of the English “worldwide” release. While it’s a free-to-play game, and therefore that massive number doesn’t translate directly into financial success, it is nevertheless a significant achievement when you consider that while people in the west…
Read MoreOne of the upcoming games that we were anticipating a great deal was Techland’s Hellraid. A first person co-operative slash-em-up set in a gothic horror nightmare sounded like a lot of fun to us, especially coming from the team responsible for the creative Dead Island and Dying Light. Unfortunately in…
Read MoreScreencheat was one of our favourite PC games from last year. As a multiplayer-only game it provided all of the necessary elements for a quality, classic local multiplayer experience; tight mechanics, well-balanced gameplay, and an entertaining concept that would allow competitive players to really get stuck into it. The basic…
Read MoreEarlier this week we reviewed TyranoBuilder, a great bit of software brought to us by Nyu Media that allows people to create their own visual novels. That being said, it is a reasonably limited piece of software in some areas at the moment, such as the lack of existing art…
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