video games
The Burden of Building Someone Else's Fantasy World
'Blackwood' is the latest in a long line of content expansions for The Elder Scrolls Online, an MMORPG that's keeping…
Resident Evil Village Review: Straight-faced self-parody
Drawing upon its most successful designs over the last twenty years, Village is a masterfully executed, but stagnant work.
2021 Apple Design Award nominations feature Australia's SMG Studio with ‘Sp!ng’
Apple has announced the finalists for the 2021 Apple Design Awards ahead of this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, and Australian…
Review: Biomutant Lacks An Identity To Call Its Own
Biomutant's clashing design philosophies continually reduce the player experience to one of overwhelming apathy.
With Far Cry 6, Ubisoft admits to politics in its videogames. Why is that notable?
Ubisoft has had a history of saying that its politically-informed game worlds are not political. What's changed?
Freeplay 2021: Full program and speakers announced for the independent games festival
Freeplay, the world’s longest-running independent games festival, has revealed the full conference program and speakers who will appear at the…
'Grand Theft Auto Online' and 'NBA 2K' lead Take-Two Interactive to record revenue
Take-Two Interactive, responsible for 2K Games and Rockstar Games, has joined its industry peers in recording record revenue in 2020-21.
You should play... Hollow Knight
Games & digital content lead Jini Maxwell waxes lyrical about the Studio Ghibli-inspired blockbuster Hollow Knight, made by tiny Adelaide-based…
Dramatic new details about 2K Australia’s poor treatment have emerged
The Australian studio behind Bioshock 2 and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified has had its tumultuous history uncovered in a new…
Australian anti-fascist photography game ‘Umurangi Generation’ coming to Nintendo Switch
The award-winning Maori sci-fi game will make its way to Nintendo's popular Switch console in June, with a new creative…