Digitally Uploaded

Final Fantasy, retro remakes, and baseball! (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #11)

It's been such a big couple of weeks for Final Fantasy, with IX, VII, X and X-2 releasing on the Nintendo Switch within weeks of one another... and FFXII just around the corner.

So this week on the podcast we talk about those games. Additionally, we chat about remakes - what makes a good remake, and when should great games be left alone?

Finally, we chat about baseball. Not just because MLB The Show is recently released, but Konami also has one coming, about the (better) Japanese baseball league. That's one worth looking forward to, if you don't mind the import.

Thanks as always for tuning in, and we'll see you next week!

Sekiro, Borderlands, and the Epic store (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #10)

We're back! After a couple of weeks off because Matt was in Japan (hope you enjoyed the special top 20 music countdown!), we're back, and with a brand new podcast, looking at some of the biggest conversations that has been going on with video games.

First up, we chat about Sekiro, which has been causing all kinds of discussions over the past few weeks since it released. It's good though. Very good.

Then we chat about Borderlands and the ongoing nonsense regarding the Epic store. Apparently people don't like using it or something.

Thanks as always for tuning in, and we'll catch you all next week!

Twenty brilliant pieces of game music, part 2!

Last week we kicked off a countdown of 20 of our favourite pieces of game music - not necessarily the best, but certainly our favourites. This week we finish that countdown!

From Final Fantasy to Wild Arms, Donkey Kong to The World Ends With You, there's been so much great music made for video games, it was certainly hard to narrow it down to a celebration of 20! We hope you like what we've chosen, though, and would love to hear your own picks as well!

See you next time!

Twenty brilliant pieces of game music, part 1!

Over the next two weeks, we're going to be sharing some of the DDNet team's favourite pieces of game music. These aren't necessarily the best pieces of all time (we all walked away from recording this podcast and immediately thought of another dozen tracks we could talk about), but these are all brilliant pieces of music that are critical to the quality of the games themselves.

So tune in to the tunes and enjoy! We also briefly introduce why we love these pieces of music, so be sure to let us know why you like these tracks, and any others that you would have added to our little list!

And be sure to tune in next week when we finish up our little list!

RIP PlayStation Vita, we hardly knew ye. Also we love Caligula! (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #9)

Last week brought the sad news that Sony was formally putting an end to the PlayStation Vita, the little handheld that could, so this week on the Digitally Uploaded podcast, we reminisce about all the good times we had with that console, and the great games we played.

We also have another chat about The Caligula Effect - a game we seemingly can't stop playing or thinking about. It's just that good.

Thanks as always for tuning in, and we'll see you next week!

In-depth previews of the Yakuza "spiritual sequel" and a game about the black death (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #8)

It's all about upcoming games this week on the Digitally Uploaded podcast. First we chat about A Plague Tale - a suspenseful stealth game set during the Black Death that we had a couple of hours hands-on time with.

Then we chat about the next game from the studio behind the Yakuza series: Judgement is an all-new direction for the SEGA studio... or is it?

We also chat a little about our first impressions of Nintendo's mobile title, Dragalia Lost, now that it's finally available in Australia and New Zealand.

Thanks as always for tuning in, and we'll see you next week!

The games of March and our favourite obscure games (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #7)

It's the end of the February, and you know what that means! We look at all the games releasing in March, and whoo boy is it going to be a busy month.

We also chat about some of the favourite obscure games that we've played and loved over the years... and try and figure out what makes a free-to-play game actually worth playing.

Thanks as always for tuning in, and we'll be back next week with even more great stuff to chat about!

Nintendo is awesome! Tetris is brilliant! Open worlds are meh (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #6)

Last week Nintendo held its most impressive Nintendo Direct Web show ever, so we talk about all the awesome announcements that were made there (including Tetris!)

We also have a good chat about open world games, given two very high-profile ones released this week: Metro and Far Cry. Is the open world genre perfect for every game? Why is it the most popular going around at the moment? This we discuss.

Finally we chat about character mascots - why are they so popular in Japan, and why don't western developers put quite the same effort into their mascots (also Matt gets to talk about Hatsune Miku a bit, which made him very happy.

What is the "perfect" game? Also, the very worst games, and mobile gaming (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #5)

What's the "perfect" game? With something as subjective as video games, "perfection" shouldn't mean "flawless," but actually nutting down what causes us to call something "perfect" is one of the things we chat about this week on the Digitally Uploaded podcast.

We also have a good chat about some of the worst games that we've ever played, and then we take a quick look at the mobile games space... which has faded, and badly, though there is still the occasional gem that lands there.

Thanks as always for tuning in! Sorry about the absolutely horrible Clive Palmer song at the end of this week's podcast, but we figured that here in Australia we're being flooded by that guy's insanity every day, so we'd just spread the love a little bit.

WarGroove, roguelikes and Nintendo eShop (Digitally Uploaded 2019, Episode #4)

WarGroove, the independent-developed Advance Wars "clone" is the flavour of the week this week, so we chat about that.

We also discuss the state of the Nintendo eShop (it ain't great), and discuss one of the most over-used genre tropes - the roguelike. Gosh roguelikes are awesome when they're at their best, though.

Thanks as always for tuning in, and see you next week!