Article by Matt S. While we love video games at DigitallyDownloaded.net (you probably noticed that, right?), we’re also big fans of Japan as a country (which you probably have also noticed). Japanese video games are great an all, but something that perhaps fewer people are aware of is that Japan’s…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. So, Australia’s delightful censorship bureau, the Classification Board, has struck again, and once again it has struck a tiny Japanese game that was not going to offend anyone. This time around it is Idea Factory’s MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death; that has been refused classification (the dreaded…
Read MoreReiner Knizia is a masterful board game designer, and his games make for excellent video game adaptations as well. I still play titles such as Samurai and Through the Desert today on my iPad, years after I downloaded them for the first time. And there’s a Kickstarter that has been…
Read MoreCocktails and murders. Both are best served cold. And both are major elements in Best Served Cold, a game announced today by Hidden Through Time developer Rogueside. Play as a bartender at a speakeasy where potential suspects and witnesses gather. For the cops to look the other way on the…
Read MoreToday’s annual Level-5 Vision event is subtitled “To the World’s Children.” The idea is that games aren’t just for children, they’re also for adults who never lost their inner child. Recently, the publisher has been delaying many of its games, some repeatedly. I normally understand delays but with this many,…
Read MoreCopycat stood out at this year’s Not-E3 after being featured in Future of Play Direct (Season 5). That trailer haunts me due to its quick shift in tone. In the beginning, Olive adopts a cat named Dawn. But don’t let the colourful visuals fool you: she starts bonding with her…
Read MoreIt is a good day for creepy video game news! Japanese-style horror adventure game Hollow Cocoon was released for PC via Steam last December, self-published by developer Nayuta Studio. The horror game is set in Japan during the 1980s. The screenshots look almost serene but don’t get lulled into a…
Read MoreAnother Not-E3 has come and gone, and some of the games have since moved into my brain to live rent-free. And by some, I mean ten. The genres in this group of games range from narrative adventures to cozy puzzles to mech platformers, but I definitely seem drawn to the…
Read MoreI wasn’t even born until the mid-’80s, but Sprint was still a series of games I could find in an arcade every now and then when I was a kid. I guess that I must not have paid much attention because I didn’t know about its history until I looked…
Read MoreThe Nintendo World Championships have been held in-person three times (1990, 2015, and 2017). It’s now time to take that up a notch in the comfort of your own home with Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, announced today for Nintendo Switch. It’s time to find out if you’re really that…
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