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This week we have one of the DDNet team, Brad, on the show to talk about his hands-on experience with the Nintendo Switch, following a media hands-on event thrown by Nintendo. Then we talk about Fire Emblem, given that Nintendo has recently held a Direct online show to show off that the company has no fewer than four games in the series on the way for various platforms. Finally, we talk about censorship, after discovering that Gal*Gun: Double Peace has been banned from sale in New Zealand. Catch us on our social media accounts! And Happy Lunar New Year for later on in the week! Matt S: @digitallydownld Matt C: @MC_Odd Brad: @chunkydroid

The big news last week was, of course, the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo held an hour-long online event to reveal all the details about its newest console and the games that we'd be playing on it, and we have a good chat about that. Then we talk about the tragic news that Scalebound, the PlatinumGames-developed Xbox One exclusive, has been cancelled, and with it went the last reason that many of us might have had to invest in an Xbox One. Finally, we chat about the price of games, and discuss how difficult it's becoming to have a sustainable game development business in this day and age. And, of course, the consumers lose out when their favourite developers go under. Catch us on our social medias! Matt: @digitallydownld Alan: @Ironshroom

Welcome to the very first podcast for a year that is going to be seriously intense in terms of games. Usually January is a time where game developers and publishers take a bit of a break, but oh no, not this year. This year there's going to be an endless stream of quality games from the start. This month along we've got a new Miku game, Yakuza, Kingdom Hears, Tales, Resident Evil, and Atelier Shallie on the PlayStation Vita. Oh, and a little something called Gravity Rush 2. Come listen as we chat about the games of 2017 that we're looking forward to (and already playing), and then we take a little trip into the simulation genre to love RollerCoaster Tycoon, and cry a little over Rollercoaster Dreams, the first 0.5/5 review of the year. Come check us out on Twitter! Matt S: @digitallydownld Alan: @Ironshroom Matt C: @MC_Odd

Welcome to the very first podcast for a year that is going to be seriously intense in terms of games.

Usually January is a time where game developers and publishers take a bit of a break, but oh no, not this year. This year there's going to be an endless stream of quality games from the start. This month along we've got a new Miku game, Yakuza, Kingdom Hears, Tales, Resident Evil, and Atelier Shallie on the PlayStation Vita. Oh, and a little something called Gravity Rush 2.

Come listen as we chat about the games of 2017 that we're looking forward to (and already playing), and then we take a little trip into the simulation genre to love RollerCoaster Tycoon, and cry a little over Rollercoaster Dreams, the first 0.5/5 review of the year.

Come check us out on Twitter!

Matt S: @digitallydownld

Alan: @Ironshroom

Matt C: @MC_Odd

 

Welcome to the end of the year! We hope you've all had a lovely Christmas, and have some awesome New Year's parties lined up. Our last podcast of the year is a special-length one, where we look back at the year that was, look forward to 2017, and generally be quite silly. We have a special guest on the podcast this week too, Brendan Votano from Blue Volcano, so kick back, relax, and enjoy! See you all next year! As always, you can catch us on Twitter. Otherwise, enjoy the podcast! Matt S: @digitallydownld Alan: @Ironshroom Matt C: @MC_Odd Brendan V: @BrendanVotano & @BlueVolcano_

This week on the podcast we talk about a couple of topics near and dear to our hearts. The first in Goichi Suda, one of the true gaming artists. Transgressive, progressive, and punkish, Suda-san's games are always distinctive and unique, and he is one of the reasons that we continue to love games as much as we do.

We also have a special guest this week; Lachlan Snell is an Aussie indie developer, who specialises in producing Japanese-style visual novels. He's got a kickstarter underway at the moment for Alluna and Brie and the Tentacle Menace, and he joins us to talk about fan service, visual novels, and Japanese games in general.

As always, you can catch us on Twitter. Otherwise, enjoy the podcast!

Matt S: @digitallydownld

Matt C: @MC_Odd

Special guest host, Lachlan from Lached Up Games: @lachedupgames

After a controversial 2016 in some respects, Sony is looking at having one of its best years ever in 2017. This week, the DDNet team, joined by special guest, Brendan Votano, the indie game developer behind Sydney's Blue Volcano, discuss the PlayStation Experience and Sony Mobile shows that is has recently put on. As always, you can catch us on Twitter. Otherwise, enjoy the podcast! Matt S: @digitallydownld Alan: @Ironshroom Matt C: @MC_Odd Brendan V: @BrendanVotano & @BlueVolcano_

We're back! After a couple of months break, we're back and ready to get the Digitally Uploaded podcast kicking again. 

 

Matt S and Alan are back from the original show, and we're now joined by Matt C, one of the DDNet contributors and writers for NZ Gamer, who has come on to lend his wit and Kiwi access to classy the place up a little. Otherwise we're going to be discussing similar things each week, with our usual focus on the Japanese side of gaming. 

 

This week we look at Final Fantasy XV, which is a game every JRPG fan has been looking forward to for years (literally), as well as the Game Awards, and some of our thoughts - and criticisms - of those. Then we also talk about the problem of too many major games being released too close to one another for the industry's health.

 

As always, you can catch us on Twitter. Otherwise, enjoy the podcast!

 Matt S: @digitallydownld Alan: @Ironshroom

Matt C: @MC_Odd

We're back! After a couple of months break, we're back and ready to get the Digitally Uploaded podcast kicking again. 

 

Matt S and Alan are back from the original show, and we're now joined by Matt C, one of the DDNet contributors and writers for NZ Gamer, who has come on to lend his wit and Kiwi access to classy the place up a little. Otherwise we're going to be discussing similar things each week, with our usual focus on the Japanese side of gaming. 

 

This week we look at Final Fantasy XV, which is a game every JRPG fan has been looking forward to for years (literally), as well as the Game Awards, and some of our thoughts - and criticisms - of those. Then we also talk about the problem of too many major games being released too close to one another for the industry's health.

 

As always, you can catch us on Twitter. Otherwise, enjoy the podcast!

 

Matt S: @digitallydownld

Alan: @Ironshroom

Matt C: @MC_Odd

 

Welcome to the latest episode of the Digitally Uploaded podcast, companion podcast to the www.digitallydownloaded.net website.

One of the more popular discussions that we have in the games industry is around the topic of difficult games; what makes a game difficult, what is the difference between "good" difficulty and "bad" difficulty, and so on and so forth. This week on the podcast, we look at a couple of different ways in which games can be difficult, and discuss some of our favourite difficult games, and so on. 

As always, you can catch us on Twitter. Otherwise, enjoy the podcast!

Matt: @digitallydownld

Alan: @Ironshroom

Music played through the show (in order):

Time to make History (P4; Golden)

Moonlit Melody (Bloodborne)

Pain behind the Bravery (Odin Sphere Leifthrasir)

Fly me to the Moon (Bayonetta)