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17.05.2024

Witchy farming sim RPG Garden Witch Life will now launch for consoles alongside PC

Watching games progress through development is one of the great pleasures of writing game-related news. I’ve had my eye on indie-developed Garden Witch Life for about three years now. I first heard about it during 2021 when it was known as A Garden Witch’s Life and set to launch for PC. In 2022 Soedesco partnered with FreetimeStudio to publish the future title, which was renamed to Garden Witch Life at the time. (The slightly altered title was unveiled at a Wholesome Direct.) Today, the developer and publisher have announced that the cozy magic farm/life sim will be coming to consoles…

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Witchy farming sim RPG Garden Witch Life will now launch for consoles alongside PC

May 17, 2024

News/SOEDESCO Publishing

Watching games progress through development is one of the great pleasures of writing game-related news. I’ve had my eye on indie-developed Garden Witch Life for about three years now. I first heard about it during 2021 when it was known as A Garden Witch’s Life and set to launch for…

A screenshot of YanYan in Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble.

Go balls to the wall with this colourful (and loveable) cast of characters in Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble

May 17, 2024

News/Sega

Monkeys in balls going bananas – what is there not to love about the Super Monkey Ball titles?! The next brand-new game in the series, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, is set to unleash a barrel of fun when it launches in June. We already know about its adventure mode…

Key art for The Quintessential Quintuplets

I see lots of bikinis in The Quintessential Quintuplets. I am very… interested in these games, landing soon

May 16, 2024

News/Nintendo Switch/PlayStation 5/Spike Chunsoft

Spike Chunsoft knows its way to my heart. Put pretty anime girls in swimwear and, well, I can’t help but buy the thing now, can I? It’s actually a requirement that I do so. So that’s what the Spike Chunsoft team is doing to me in collaboration with MAGES with…

Slitherine just stealth-dropped a bunch of strategy classics on Steam (Warlords! Close Combat!)

May 16, 2024

News/Retro/Strategy

Oh wow is this news a blast from the past. Slitherine – the developer/publisher of all kinds of niche wargames and strategy titles, has dipped deep into the retro bucket to drop the classic Warlords and Close Combat titles on Steam. Both games were released on GOG previously, so I…

Claim a spot on the Formula 1 podium when F1 Manager 2024 launches this July

May 16, 2024

Frontier Developments/News

When Matt reviewed F1 Manager 2023 upon its launch last year, he concluded: “The presentation of the information is accessible and even elegant, but this is an enormously complex sport, and the developers haven’t found a way to translate this so it’s palatable to people who aren’t already deeply invested.”…

Review: Read Only Memories: Neurodiver (Nintendo Switch)

May 16, 2024

Chorus/Nintendo Switch/Reviews

My impatience for, well, anything is well-documented at this point. Waiting five years for a game seemed completely unfeasible but I have done it! I have waited half a decade for Read Only Memories: Neurodiver (ROM: Neurodiver), the sequel to 2015’s 2064: Read Only Memories. When I was offered a…

Nintendo drops us three more Game Boy games to play on Switch

May 15, 2024

News/Nintendo Switch/Retro

Just in time for the Game Boy’s 35th anniversary, Nintendo has quietly dropped three more classics on to the Game Boy app on the Switch Online service. The headline of the three is Super Mario Land, the first time Mario appeared on the console. Today, this game comes across as…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication - this is the key art for the game

Review: The Bridge Curse 2: The Extraction (PC)

May 15, 2024

Horror/PC/Reviews

Schools are creepy places, and it doesn’t seem to matter which country you’re talking about, they’re going to be one of the most common settings for horror stories. The Bridge Curse 2: The Extraction is Taiwan’s turn to haunt a place of learning (in this case, a university), and it’s…

A key art CG for Qualia on Nintendo Switch

Review: QUALIA ~ The Path of Promise ~ (Nintendo Switch)

May 14, 2024

fanservice/Nintendo Switch/Reviews/visual novel

One of the things I’ve learned in making my own visual novel is that scope can very easily blow out. Every new scene, character, idea, and story beat that you add in means more backgrounds, CGs, character costumes and music. Then it all becomes very expensive. And so, in most…

Review: Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution (Sony PlayStation 5)

May 14, 2024

JRPG/Reviews/Sony PlayStation 5

On the one hand, the extended Hyperdimension Neptunia property, which has been kicking around since 2010 and the PlayStation 3, has become a familiar comfort. With more than one game released every year (some are remakes, yes, but this is release #26 bearing the Neptunia name), you will by now…

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Reviews

Review: Read Only Memories: Neurodiver (Nintendo Switch)

May 16, 2024

My impatience for, well, anything is well-documented at this point. Waiting five years for a game seemed completely unfeasible but I have…

Review: The Bridge Curse 2: The Extraction (PC)

May 15, 2024

Schools are creepy places, and it doesn’t seem to matter which country you’re talking about, they’re going to be one of the…

Review: QUALIA ~ The Path of Promise ~ (Nintendo Switch)

May 14, 2024

One of the things I’ve learned in making my own visual novel is that scope can very easily blow out. Every new…

Review: Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution (Sony PlayStation 5)

May 14, 2024

On the one hand, the extended Hyperdimension Neptunia property, which has been kicking around since 2010 and the PlayStation 3, has become…

Videos

Podcast-in-Video: Getting nostalgic for Xenogears

December 6, 2023

Xenogears is an all-time classic, but the question is… could something like that even be made again today? That’s what we discuss…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we loved through 2023

December 5, 2023

As it is the last month of the year, it’s time to look back at all the games that were released this…

Interview with the producer and director of Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Podcast-in-Video: The big game releases in December

December 5, 2023

Apologies that we’ve been absent from uploading these videos. Various technical issues prevented us from doing a video version of the podcast,…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we wouldn’t play on the train

September 7, 2023

Got a Nintendo Switch? At some stage you’ve probably taken it out in public. After all, gaming on the go is very…

Interviews

Dig Dug platforming? Q & A with the devs behind Pepper Grinder

March 18, 2024

It’s hard to find innovation in the 2D platformer genre at times. However, “Dig Dug plus Ecco the Dolphin” is certainly a…

Developer Q & A: What to expect from Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince

November 23, 2023

Since as far back as the Game Boy Color, Square Enix has taken strides to compete with the likes of Pokémon and…

A hero image from Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

On revisiting Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 to bring it to a modern audience

October 4, 2023

One of the more interesting announcements that occurred around Tokyo Game Show this year was that the next Romance of the Three…

Nobunaga's Ambition Awakening Interview with DigitallyDownloaded.net

On bringing new ideas to Nobunaga’s Ambition, a 40-year-old strategy series

June 23, 2023

With 16 titles across 40 years, there are very few properties that have had the kind of longevity that Koei Tecmo’s Nobunaga’s…

Gadgets

by Matt

March 27, 2024

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/SteelSeries

Gadget Review: SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4X headset

With the cost of living what it is, premium-grade luxuries like sound equipment are surely one of the things that people are choosing to go without. Meanwhile, mid-quality sound equipment, which gets close enough without breaking the bank, must surely be enjoying a renaissance. After all, in a world this horrible and increasingly stressful, finding opportunities for escapism is important,…

Corsair/Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review

Gadget Review: Corsair K65 Plus Wireless keyboard

You might think that a small-sized keyboard would be light, both inherently because of its size, and also by design, because a small keyboard does imply “portability.” The Corsair K65 Plus Wireless is, however, not particularly light despite being in a 75% form factor. It is, however, exceptionally sturdy and…