Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
First Break Labs is a new collective of industry vets who have worked for major names like SEGA, Nintendo, and Atlus. It brings with it a “refreshing” new indie support model. According to a press release, First Break’s goal is to, “carve a new path of supporting groundbreaking games by…
Developer, J.R. Hudepohl, and publisher Top Hat Studios have shared a new…
Sky Oceans: Wings For Hire is the latest loving homage to the…
Some of the greatest feats of media can draw back their origins to some of the most primitive corners of the Internet. Just think about how great Kingdom of Loathing or Nethack has been over the years. And that’s why we’re paying attention to ASTILBRA Revision, a side-scrolling action RPG…
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In recent years, a reprisal of retro art styles has taken the limelight of indie horror games. While some aren’t too keen on it, we do like our retro aesthetics at DDNet, so the upcoming release of SIGNALIS by rose-engine has certainly caught our attention! Between the art, the classic…
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Playstack is a name you might not be familiar with. The publisher has only been around since 2016 and really only begun to make a name for themselves late last year, when Soulslike, Mortal Shell, turned out to be a major hit. Next up for the team is The Entropy…
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While a triple-A studio will brute-force open world games and FPSers onto the market with massive development budgets, indies usually need to target a more modest genre. The classic platformer roguelite, for example. That’s what developers, PolyCrunch Games, are doing with FALLING OUT. FALLING OUT will be published by Firestroke,…
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Here’s the happy, warm, fuzzy news I needed this week: the absolutely wonderful Bunhouse is making the move from PC to consoles next year. The game will come to PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch, which will be the absolutely perfect platform for…
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Asobo Studio (developer), and Focus Home Entertainment (publisher), have hit us with a story trailer for A Plague Tale: Requiem today, an upcoming sequel of the previous release, namely titled A Plague Tale: Innocence (check out our review of that game here). Although Innocence was riddled with narrative and aesthetic…
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BINGOBELL is an independent game development studio based in China, and while it’d be an understatement to describe them as new to the indie dev market, that’s never stopped anyone from creating hit games and absolute bangers! KAKU: Ancient Seal is BINGOBELL’s first attempt at this, having begun development back…
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It’s become a bit of a modern craze to take a vintage video game and remaster and rerelease it, tugging at the nostalgia strings of the hearts of potential gamers, and recapturing the success that these old video games had once had. While we’ve covered a few old visual novels,…
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Asymmetric multiplayer is a genre that needs a new wave to recapture interest. With some classics like Dead by Daylight looking a bit long in the tooth now, a breath of fresh, indie, innovative air has been long overdue, and that might just be where Goonya Monster fits in! Goonya…
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Penko Park is what happens when you take a Tim Burton nightmare, and mash it with Pokémon Snap. The game has become something of a cult hit “hidden gem” on Steam, where it released back in 2020, but now it’s coming to Nintendo Switch. I’ve got to say, the Switch…
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