One month in and This Week In Videogames, launched by an Australian content creator, is off to a roaring start. In an industry full of busy people, Edmond Tran has to be among the busiest. For the past month, Tran has been working as an editorial Swiss Army knife for the new gaming news website… Read more »
Frustration thrives as the promise of AI-empowered games gives way to redundancies, diminished job satisfaction and player boycotts. Solo Australian developer Joe Gibbs is excited about how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform his game. Partnering with an AI company, Gibbs intends to implement a dynamic branching story system into his real-time strategy game, Fall of… Read more »
This latest release blends the chaos of 24-player races with an open world full of tricky skill-based shortcuts to reinvent the wheel. You haven’t lived until you’ve been hit by a blue shell just before you’re about to cross the finish line. For those not in the know—or whose last Mario Kart was the 64… Read more »
We waited about 90 minutes before we called it. After getting a taste of what Elden Ring Nightreign had to offer, playing with one other random online, we were sitting in the lobby area waiting to be matched with one other player for another game. The game pulled together our first party almost instantaneously. After… Read more »
A quick look at a weekend stuffed full of game trailers, with some reflections on what was missing. Blink and you may have missed Summer Game Fest over the weekend — especially if you were busy playing the new Switch 2. The event consisted of 16 major showcases this year, featuring everything from new major… Read more »
I had a conspiracy theory back when Pokémon Violet and Scarlet launched on the Switch in 2022. Given the games were so buggy, lagging and pushing the Switch’s ageing architecture to its limits, I genuinely thought they were meant for the next Nintendo console. They must have been brought forward to fill a release calendar… Read more »
After years of rumours, we have just about everything we need to know about the long-awaited Switch 2. Thursday at midnight — Australian time — Nintendo revealed the console’s launch date, features and, crucially, its launch price. As predicted by analysts, Nintendo has used the Switch 2 launch as an opportunity to push the ceiling of… Read more »
I’m calling it early, but as hype fades and competition mounts, this tough open-world game truly pushes the genre to new heights. There I was, being mauled to death by wolves. Within the first few hours of playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, I had been ambushed by a trio of them and without any armour… Read more »
Assassin’s Creed is a series known for stealth, subterfuge and of course, assassinations. But in a bizarre twist of fate, the launch of a game known for justifiable murder, could end up unintentionally killing its creator. One of Europe’s largest gaming companies, Ubisoft, has a lot riding on the launch of its next game, Assassin’s… Read more »
Last week marked one whole year of writing a weekly column on video games. It is my answer to my quarter-career crisis, where I love working for myself in comms but wanted a new challenge that harked back to my roots and grounding as a reporter. My goal: Create a platform for smart, approachable commentary… Read more »
Who knew Pokémon Moon’s aloof captain Mallow lived a second life as a fashion queen? I’m at the fourth gym in Pokémon Black Moon 2. In the original game, it belongs to Elesa, an electric-type trainer seemingly modelled after Lady Gaga. In that game, she battles you on a catwalk, after you face off against three… Read more »
Before Infinite Lives was conceived and launched this time last year, there was another name floating around for this newsletter: Utility Jigglypuff. It was an in-joke among my mates that just wouldn’t die. Hot off watching a video from Aaron “Cybertron” Zheng, a competitive Pokémon player, professional commentator and YouTuber, I was explaining how the hyper-competitive side of this… Read more »
The odds were not on my side. I had a two in three chance of dying to this boss, and there was very little I could do about it. I’m over halfway through Fantasian Neo Dimension and without realising, I’ve stumbled into a trap within the game. I noticed this weird-looking bubble on the world… Read more »
It’s unlikely Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, took notice of Sony’s global outage a few weeks ago. But if they did, it could provide some insightful guidance for its latest inquiry where its touching on the murky framework that governs digital access to games. Sony’s PlayStation Network suffered a major outage in early February that… Read more »
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a real-time strategy (RTS) game, a genre which has fallen from grace in recent years. That style of game has more or less been replaced by battle arena titles such as Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) and League of Legends. It’s one of a handful of games that… Read more »
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