The weekly discussion

We’ve got some great discussions going on in our forums – everything from your favourite PS Plus freebie to Yoshi plushies and otaku miniatures. So this week, instead of having a discussion on our website itself, let’s take the weekly chats into the forums – our challenge this week is…

With all the debate currently surrounding Nintendo’s resistance to removing region locking, I thought this week we could have a discussion about the games that you have imported. If you’re American, the only games you might import are those from Japan, but for the rest of the English-speaking world it…

Let’s Plays are becoming more and more popular over on that YouTube site thing. For whatever reason there’s something quite entertaining about watching another player play through your favourite game. For other people, Let’s Plays are a useful resource in working out how to get through a tough boss for…

These days there are no shortage of options for gaming on the go. In addition to the traditional handheld consoles – the 3DS and the Vita – there’s very powerful gaming laptops and the ever reliable iPhone and iPad and Android devices. But if you’re like me and you own…

Game guides have existed for nearly as long as the video games themselves. Even back in the 80s you would be able to dig through an issue of Nintendo Power to discover that Simon Belmont just needed to crouch down beside a wall while holding a crystal so he could…

With E3 now over, we basically know everything that we’ll be playing over the next year, as well as the consoles that we’ll be playing those games on. Which makes this weekly discussion an easy (some would even say… lazy!) one: What games are you most looking forward to over…

As much as we would like to think that Digitally Downloaded is your favourite games website out there, we don’t think that we’re the only one that you read! There are a lot of great gaming websites out there, but separating the great ones from the rest can be challenging…

So, finally, we have an idea of how the next generation of consoles will shape up on the store shelves. We know what Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will all be leading with, and it just remains to be seen which company will lead, and which will inevitably fall to the…

Sometimes we just want to play Candy Crush Saga, but at other times most of us like deeper and more involved experiences. And some developers and publishers go right over the top with providing deep and complex experience. From the strategic depth of a Paradox Interactive game to the insane…