David Smith is the former games and technology editor at The AU Review. He has previously written for PC World Australia. You can find him on Twitter at @RhunWords.
Boundless is an open-world sandbox title created by developer Wonderstruck. The game is also being built for PC with a view to leveraging cross-play functionality. Check out the rather lovely first trailer after the jump.
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Hello Games have spent a long time playing coy regarding the release date of their space exploration title No Man’s Sky. During Sony’s Paris Games Week presentation, they finally gave in, announcing a release window and dropping a new trailer.
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PlayStation fans have gotten their next look at Horizon: Zero Dawn during Sony’s Paris Games Week press event this morning. Developer Guerrilla Games debuted a brand new trailer during show with new gameplay footage.
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Evolution Studios has been keeping a secret from fans of their PS4 racer, DriveClub. Called DriveClub Bikes, the motorcycle-based expansion can be grabbed on PSN right now.
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Matterfall will become the new project from Resogun dev Housemarque. The game was announced during Sony’s press conference at Paris Games Week this morning.
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After almost 200 hours, I thought I was well and truly done with The Witcher 3. It’s first major expansion, Hearts of Stone, proved that it was Geralt who wasn’t finished with me.
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With Guitar Hero Live and Rock Band 4 hitting Australian store shelves within a week of each other, the music and rhythm genre that dominated lounge rooms everywhere only five years ago is officially back from hiatus. With Guitar Hero Live, developer FreeStyle Games is attempting to bring something new to the table. The question…
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The 2015 EB Expo was a huge show boasting equally huge titles, and few titles are as huge as Call of Duty. With Black Ops III right around the corner, we caught up with Treyarch’s Studio Design Director David Vonderhaar to talk about his dev career, what we can expect from the new game and where we go…
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This week back in 1985, Nintendo took their first steps into the world North American and European world of home computer games with the release of the NES, the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Japanese console on which the NES was based, the Nintendo Family Computer (or Famicom) system had been wildly popular in it’s homeland…
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Telstra are getting into the realm of online streaming with Telstra TV, a new gadget that will allow customers of the telco’s home broadband service access a number of different TV and movie streaming services in one place.
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Transformers Devastation marks the first time Platinum Games, known for the Bayonetta series, the upcoming Star Fox Zero for Nintendo and Scalebound for Microsoft, have tackled the robots-in-disguise franchise, taking over from High Moon Studios. For the 80’s kids and die-hard Generation 1 fans, it is a tactical strike upon the nostalgia gland. For everyone…
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If you’re heading to PAX Australia 2015 in just a few weeks, you can start planning your weekend now. This year’s official schedule is now live! Lots of great stuff on this year right from the moment the doors open. Storytime with Warren Spector is going to something really special so get there early on…
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert appears to be very keen on spotlighting events in video game culture as much as film, tv and music. Last night’s episode featured The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, a 54-piece orchestra, as the show’s musical guest and you can check out their amazing medley after the…
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You wouldn’t know it to look at it but we promise this is a trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
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A very recognisable vehicle will arrive in Rocket League on October 21, a date that is also very important to fans of the Back to the Future trilogy.
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Finished The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and are hungry for more? Of course you are, why wouldn’t you be? In good news for RPG fans with an itch to scratch until Fallout 4 releases, The Witcher 3‘s first big expansion dropped today.
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From fairly humble beginnings, Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series became the must-have trilogy on the PS3, adventure games par excellence that revitalised climbing puzzles while remaining tense and cinematic. The entire series to date has now been given the PS4 remaster treatment courtesy of indie developer Bluepoint.
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With under a month to go before release, Bethesda have unveiled the minimum and recommended specs required for PC users to run Fallout 4. Hit the jump to see if your rig is ready to explore the Bostonian Wasteland.
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Stan has managed to endure the lash of Netflix’s momentous arrival in Australia earlier this year and has kept its considerable media library intact. It’s going from strength-to-strength, actually, launching today on the PlayStation 4.
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CD Projekt Red have released a new patch for their open-world RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt over night taking the game to version 1.10. The patch brings a staggering amount of changes, tweaks, performance fixes and bug squashes to the game, so much so that CD Projekt’s patch notes clock in at an astonishing 13 pages.
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Capcom have announced that Street Fighter V will get a second multiplayer beta later this month. PlayStation 4 owners will get access first on October 22. The PC version will come online October 24. Plus, and this is big, cross-platform will also be made available for the first time.
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Microsoft have unveiled their first ever first-party laptop, the Surface Book. The hybrid machine combines a fully removable Surface Pro tablet and physical laptop body that can be used in the traditional configuration or flipped right around and used as a prop.
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Ubisoft have confirmed Far Cry Primal following a leak from IGN Turkey yesterday. The game will launch on PS4 and Xbox One February 23, 2016 with the PC release to follow in March. Hit the jump to see the first trailer!
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Metal Gear Online, the free multiplayer component of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, has begun rolling out worldwide as of this morning.
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The latest TV spot for Guitar Hero Live is here and features certified rock legend Lenny Kravitz and certified chill bro James Franco attempting to outplay each other.
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Overnight, Ubisoft started a livestream on their website showing nothing more than a cave painting and promising that they had something exciting to share. It’s been hours now and though there’s been no announcement as yet, it seems IGN Turkey inadvertently beat them to the punch.
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TT Games’ franchise of Lego video games has become a powerhouse since its experimental beginnings in Lego Star Wars back in 2005, but despite the many sequels across many different properties, not a huge amount has changed mechanically since then. Lego Dimensions feels like TT Games’ vehement answer to that criticism. “Fine, you want different?…
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment expects the woe-begotten PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight to be on sale once more by the end of October.
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It’s been a good week for gaming on late night TV with Stephen Colbert following up his Thursday night Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg interview with a live demo of No Man’s Sky from Hello Games’ Sean Murray.
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Yo-kai Watch, the ridiculously popular Japanese franchise about catching invisible creatures that are definitely not Pokémon, will make its way to Australia this Christmas, launching on Nintendo 3DS on December 5 (and is playable at the Nintendo booth at the EB Expo this year!)
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