UPDATE: Sony has contacted us with the following statement: “Please note, this was an online store listing error. This has been fixed immediately and the classification mark for the title is R18+.” In yet another example of the breathtaking stupidity of Australia’s new R18+ age classification, the first game to score…
Read MoreI still don’t quite understand where the R18+ rating for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus came from. This is a game that features violence, but even with the PlayStation Vita enhancements the violence is aging quite badly. It’s more amusing like when an anvil lands on Wile E Coyote’s head…
Read MoreEveryone likes a top-10 list. They’re a bit of fun, and always good for discussion. We haven’t done lists for a while at Digitally Downloaded, but then I thought to myself “what better way to pass away some time on a Friday afternoon than with a little list?” And so,…
Read MoreBack in the early days of Vita’s launch, one thing that it wasn’t lacking in was great games to play. But one of the early titles that slipped onto the portable quickly after release was Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus. In our 4.5/5 Star review here at Digitally Downloaded, our Editor-in-Chief,…
Read MoreI know there’s a gamer sub-culture that appreciates games that are deliberately (painfully) hard. These are the kind of people that buy into the retro-modern games and tributes. They’re the kind of people that arcade games would have sucked right in before people realised that buying a game and playing…
Read MoreRecently, the PlayStation Vita was reported to have sold 2.2 million units worldwide. By no means is that a runaway success, but I find myself disappointed by the increasingly-vocal group of people claiming doom on Sony’s handled. It’s clearly never going to outsell the 3DS, let alone the iPhone or…
Read MoreOverall, this has been a really good year for games. Almost from January 1 we’ve been feed a constant stream of blockbusters and trusted franchises. There’s also been a few genuine surprises. Games I really did not expect to be worthwhile when I started playing. Games I often expected to…
Read MorePandora’s Tower on the Wii was one of those rare games that was provocative enough to cause me to think about the very nature of games. You can read my review of the game over at Otaku Gaming, but I’d like to take the opportunity to discuss one of the…
Read MorePandora’s Tower on the Wii was one of those rare games that was provocative enough to cause me to think about the very nature of games. You can read my review of the game over at Otaku Gaming, but I’d like to take the opportunity to discuss one of the…
Read MoreNinja Gaiden Sigma Plus isn’t really a new game. It’s a very old game that has been updated slightly to hit the PlayStation Vita launch window. That’s not actually a bad thing, though, because this is a classic game for a reason. Released back in 2004 on the Xbox, Ninja…
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