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.
EA have announced that they’re moving ahead with a “technical test” of DICE’s Star Wars Battlefront. The beta will launch in early October and will feature three game modes, including one brand new mode.
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With its October 10 release date looming, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate has a lot to prove. Many fans of the series are keen to see how the game runs in comparison to last year’s disastrous Assassin’s Creed Unity. The latest trailer for the game shows us not only what appears to be the game running but also a…
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided finally has an official release date. That’s good! It’s also offering one of the most poorly thought-out preorder deals in recent memory. That’s bad.
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It’s hard to believe we’re already two thirds of the way through 2015. But for gamers, this is quite exciting news, because the last third of the year is almost always home to the best games of the year. And 2015 is no exception. All due for release over the next 4 months at the…
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With Mad Max launching on consoles and PC September 2, Warner Bros Interactive has enlisted Sydney street artists for a PR stunt that turned a pair of cars into rolling, dirty billboards for the game.
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Variety reports that Lionsgate are developing a film based on Gearbox’s popular first person shooter series Borderlands with Marvel producers Avi and Ari Arad.
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After a very low-key showing at E3 this year, Cliff Blezinski’s BossKey Productions went quiet again, working on what they were calling Project BlueStreak. They’ve now revealed more about the game, it’s official title LawBreakers and a reveal trailer.
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With American football rapidly gaining popularity in Australia due to the rise of online streaming services (and a longheld belief that we were missing out on something due to all the American media we consume), the Madden series of games is becoming less and less of a curiosity here. With Madden 16, EA is playing…
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With Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn just around the corner (ready to leap out and scare the crap out of you), we thought we’d take a look back at some of our favourite horror games ever made. From the revolutionary to the just plain creepy, these are the titles that made us go to sleep with…
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It’s been nearly ten years since Epic Games unleashed the original Gears of War upon the world. Since then, we’ve seen three more titles set in the same universe, a series of surprisingly good novels by Karen Traviss and a passing of the torch as series development went from Epic to The Coalition. With their…
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With the exception of some of Telltale’s back catalogue, the “interactive movie” style of game has never really been my cup of tea. I didn’t like Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls barely made a dent. Thus, I went into my review of Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn with no small amount of skepticism. Despite my…
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EA have announced that they plan to bring a playable build of DICE’s hotly anticipated shooter Star Wars Battlefront to this year’s PAX AUS 2015 convention in Melbourne.
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With less than a week remaining ahead of Sony’s new choice-based survival horror title <i>Until Dawn</i>, the trailers are starting roll in quite quickly. Called “The Road Not Taken”, it reinforces the game’s 80’s slasher film vibe.
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For a child of the NES and Master System era like me, it feels like the Gauntlet franchise has been around forever. With the tough-as-nails co-operative arcade beat-em-up coming back into vogue with the rise of indie gaming it was only a matter of time before Gauntlet returned. And return it has with Gauntlet: Slayer…
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Warner Bros. Interactive have announced that, this time next month, Batman: Arkham Knight fans will be charging through Gotham’s rainslick streets in the Tumbler from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.
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Bad news, strategic shooter fans. Ubisoft have announced that Rainbow Six Siege will not make its October 13 release date and will now arrive December 1 worldwide.
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We are definitely satisfied with our care. Producer Roy Conli has announced during the Disney D23 conference that characters and locations from last year’s animated hit Big Hero 6 will be appearing in the long-awaited Square-Enix RPG Kingdom Hearts 3.
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Frontier Developments have brought their venerable theme park management franchise to mobile devices with a straight, no-strings-attached iOS port of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3.
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Physics puzzler/genuine test of a person’s frustration threshold I Am Bread is back with a brand new update that thrusts our yeasty hero into the world of Valve’s multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2.
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Hacknet is a largely text-based game about the perils and quiet victories that come with being a real world hacker. Adelaide developer Team Fractal Alligator (aka Matt Trobianni) has created a game that deals in mental jousts and proves that you can still make a text-based adventure in 2015 that is thrilling and addictive.
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Developer Hi-Rez Studios have announced that their free-to-play gods-and-mythology MOBA will have its official launch on Xbox One later this week.
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Fallout Shelter was originally announced during Bethesda’s press conference at E3 earlier this year. Android fans were left wanting when Bethesda confirmed that only the iOS version would be launching that day. Good news, ‘droid owners – Fallout Shelter is here and you can download for free right now.
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Avalanche Studios’ upcoming Mad Max game looks to be a very pretty and cinematic experience. The latest trailer for the game is no exception, featuring everything we definitely want to see from a Mad Max game but is again missing a crucial element – significant gameplay.
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Square Enix have debuted a new trailer for the next installment in their venerable RPG franchise, Final Fantasy XV. It takes us back in time 15 years to a crucial point hero Noctis’ past.
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Bungie have released the latest trailer for their massive Destiny expansion, The Taken King, at Gamescom and it’s a whopper. There is so much good stuff in this trailer it’s hard to know where to begin.
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The more we see of Guitar Hero Live, the more I feel like FreeStyle Games are coming at this project the right way. In addition to a comprehensive behind-the-scenes trailer, FreeStyle have announced the addition of singing to the game so that others can join in for co-op.
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Blizzard have unveiled more new material for their upcoming shooter Overwatch at Gamescom in Germany overnight. Included in the presentation: a new character and two brand new maps.
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If you plan to pick up Just Cause 3 on the Xbox One then good news! Your game will come with a copy of Just Cause 2. Microsoft made the announcement today at their Gamescom 2015 press brief. Just Cause 2 came out back in 2010 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The copy included here will…
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Blizzard have revealed the next three heroes to join their popular MOBA Heroes of the Storm, one from each of their big franchises, and unveiled a brand new battleground.
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Frontier Developments have announced at new slate of DLC for their space sim Elite: Dangerous called Horizons. The new “season” of content will finally add what fans have been begging for since the game’s inception: you’ll be able to land on any of the game’s billions of planets.
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