Kieron Verbrugge

REVIEW // Mortal Kombat II grows a spine worth ripping out

Mortal Kombat, (the 2021 film, not the cult classic 1995 one) was an aggressively okay video game-to-film adaptation stacked up against a sea of aggressively bad ones, so there’s little surprise it captured audiences decently enough. It’s a film I

The Switch 2 is getting a price increase

Nintendo has joined the ranks of PlayStation and Xbox in increasing the cost of their current-generation console hardware offering, announcing a price increase for the Nintendo Switch 2 that will take effect starting September 1, 2026. The changes vary slightly

REVIEW // Mixtape is a generational banger

When I was in high school, living in a hilly and tree-lined suburb just outside of metropolitan Perth, a group of friends and I found an abandoned house. Well, less a house than a whole mansion, obscured by overgrowth, caked

PREVIEW // Dark Scrolls is a punishing, pixelated scrolls-like

I’m not going to waste any time here because it is absolutely already in the pun-forward name – Dark Scrolls is a hard game. It’s not a Souls-adjacent game, more a rogue-ish platformer, but its moniker implies exactly the level

PREVIEW // Heave Ho 2 is armfuls of fun

I have, admittedly, never gotten around to playing 2019’s Heave Ho. It’s a game I’ve long wanted to try, but with a wealth of couch co-op puzzle games already out there and scientifically engineered to break up friendships at any