Farewell (for the next week), Overwatch. Our time with your closed beta has been memorable. You were exuberant fun as often as you were one-sided and rage-enducing. After spending a good few months in the game’s second closed beta, we come before you now to pass friendly judgement on what what we loved and where we think…
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Following some pretty intense fan backlash after last fortnight’s DOOM multiplayer open beta, Bethesda are switching gears. The Fallout publisher will be running a Twitch stream tomorrow morning to spotlight the game’s “intense” single-player campaign. The stream kicks off at 4am AEST because of course it does, and will be hosted by DOOM‘s executive producer Marty Stratton and…
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During today’s Gearbox Software panel at PAX East in Boston, CEO Randy Pitchford dropped a few nuggets of information about the next game in the Borderlands franchise. “Obviously, there’s going to be another Borderlands,” he said, before suggesting punters reduce their attachment to the name. “We don’t even know if we’re going to call it that.”
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We’ve been messing around with Hitman‘s puzzle-box first level, Paris, for just over a month now and we’re still uncovering secrets and creative murder opportunities. The second episode, Sapienza, drops next week and sees Agent 47 head to Italy to stop a scientist deploying an engineered virus on the world. Hit the jump to see the…
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And here I thought real-time strategy on the PC was dead. Ubisoft have unveiled their newest IP, an PC RTS entitled Champions of Anteria with a trailer that lays on the quirky humour pretty thick.
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With Hearthstone‘s big Whispers of the Old Gods expansion looming, Blizzard have announced that a number of older cards will be undergoing changes to bring them into line with newer and forthcoming decks.
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Over the last week or so, Gearbox’s newest IP (the first since 2009’s Borderlands) Battleborn was in beta offering a glimpse into its various modes and characters.
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For fans of Respawn Entertainment’s clever-but-flawed multiplayer shooter Titanfall, the wait for news on the in-development sequel has been a long one. This morning, we have our first, extremely brief look at Titanfall 2.
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If you’ve been following the development of the StarCraft IP over the last decade or so, you’ll surely have heard of the fan-favourite Terran ghost, namely November Annabella Terra, or Nova for short. The character was to appear in her own title, aptly named StarCraft: Ghost, however the project was sadly canned in 2005. Now…
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Blizzard have released a second animated short for their upcoming team shooter Overwatch. Built around sniper character Widowmaker, the short provides an insight into her backstory and motivations with a knock-down, drag-out fight with Tracer. Hit the jump to see it for yourself.
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Tom Clancy’s The Division is one of those games that has been in pipeline for so long, it actually feels a bit weird to be able to play it at all. Announced at E3 2013, Ubisoft have spent the intervening years making a lot of promises about the game. We were told to expect a…
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I am not a military or war history buff. I know a number of guys who can wax rhapsodic about certain World War II weapons and vehicles in the same way many of us can enthuse about our favourite pop-culture artifacts, but I’ve never really understood what it was about these machines that captured their…
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Razer have just announced a new addition to the family, the new 2016 Razer Blade. Featuring all the same bells and whistles as the 2015 model, the new 2016 edition comes with better ram, a more graphics card memory and a new Intel Core i7-6700HQ Skylake processor and 16GBs of DDR4 running at 2133 MHz…
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Hearthstone has announced its latest expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods, and to celebrate its release, gamers in Victoria can witness a new piece of art from the game come to life this weekend in Richmond, Victoria.
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With its sixth and latest entry, Hitman will be making one particular part of the series’ fanbase very happy indeed. Hitman: Blood Money, released back in 2006, has become a perrenial fan favourite, its sandbox of inventive and improvisational gameplay proving an unbeatable formula. Developer Io Interactive returned to a more cinematic style in 2012’s…
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By the time I was Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, I felt as though Ubisoft had finally created the best possible version of their long-running series. It felt tightly wound, honed over years of tinkering and design evolution. However, in order for the series to endure, it also felt like it needed to take some time off…
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Razer has announced the launch of new live streaming software for gamers, the Razer Cortex: Gamecaster, a program that will allow uses to easily record and stream their gameplay to networks like Azubu, Twitch and YouTube Live. The Gamecaster features all essential broadcasting tools and settings a streamer will ever need through an unobtrusive on-screen…
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For everyone who still hasn’t gotten a key for the closed beta of Blizzard’s upcoming team shooter Overwatch, you can relax. Blizzard have announced this morning that the game will enter a very short open beta period in early May before launching on May 24.
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Start saying goodbye to your friends and family now. The long-awaited space adventure title No Man’s Sky will finally be delivered into your anxious paws on June 22, 2016.
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Ahead of Tom Clancy’s The Division launch next week, Ubisoft have released a new PC trailer for the game, showcasing beautifully immersive features such as volumetric fog, dynamic global illumination, real-time environment destruction and realistic weather particle effects on taking place in its open world environment. The kicker? All in gorgeous 60fps. The Division will officially launch…
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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is so stupidly addictive and entertaining and I can’t stop playing it. Just thought I’d skip the formalities and set the tone here because I haven’t been this engrossed in a game for some time.
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It’s been a while since Telltale Games have visited The Walking Dead franchise, but they certainly haven’t been slacking off. It seems everybody with an established universe wants Telltale to, er…tell a tale using their signature style. The team were simultaneously delivering content for Tales from the Borderlands, Game of Thrones and Minecraft: Story Mode,…
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Square Enix’s turn-based puzzle strategy game Hitman GO: Definitive Edition is now available for purchase for PS4, PS Vita and PC, featuring optimised gameplay and improved graphics. In celebration of the multi-platform release, for the first week only, the title will be 20% off the regular price of AUD $11.95 and can be purchased from the…
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The much-vaunted, long-ish awaited official mod support for Fallout 4 will arrive on PC and consoles during late spring (that’s late autumn for us here in Oz). The news comes from a new Game Informer interview with Bethesda director Todd Howard.
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Street Fighter V feels like it yearns for a simpler time, for the fighting games from 20 years ago, before juggling and endless combos became the genre’s order of the day. It’s both stylish and disciplined, simple enough for newbies to jump into and technical enough that the hardcore can dig right in. But it’s also…
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Kôna: Day One, from indie studio Parabole, is the first act of a narrative driven game series revolving around a chilling detective tale set in northern Canada in the 1970s. Currently, the game is in a pre-beta stage so the play through only contained around 25% of the full experience, therefore I was limited to…
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Unravel, the newest game from Swedish developer ColdWood is so inherently magical and sublime that it has quickly become one of the most moving gaming experiences I have had the pleasure of embarking upon. And you should too, because at its core, Unravel blends a simple premise, head scratching puzzles and a sentimental story to…
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Hail wasteland wanderers! Ye have cried out for more Fallout 4 and Bethesda has answered, announcing an upcoming set of three very distinct DLC add-ons launching in March, April and May respectively, promising even more to follow.
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Ask any fan of XCOM for their opinion on the franchise and their stories will all be variations on a theme – wonderful games marred by wild RNG and, in the case of 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown at least, some of the most infuriating, game-breaking bugs this side of an Elder Srolls title. Neither of those criticisms have really changed in XCOM 2,…
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Ubisoft has announced that Trackmania Turbo, the latest instalment in the Trackmania franchise developed by Nadeo, is set for release on PS4, Xbox One and PC on March 24, 2016. The arcade racing game will feature a Trackbuilder tool allowing players to build their own dream tracks. In addition to player-created tracks, players will be…
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