Kieron Verbrugge

REVIEW // Summerhouse is just as lovely on PS5, mild existential crisis aside

Summerhouse is one of those rare little gems that I’ll always return to on PC, content to while away a bit of time and unwind between the stresses of real life, building tiny buildings in this tiny game. Sometimes, though, the idea of trudging downstairs to my office and firing up my desktop just for […]

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 got on with at the time, but wouldn’t go out of my way to rewatch,

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 between regions, with most seeing a general price increase on the standard Switch 2 console

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 in dust and mould – in hindsight probably incredibly unsafe – and even sporting an

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 of challenge on offer as well as revealing its true genre trappings as an auto-scrolling

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 function, it’s just never come up. But after playing just a few rounds of its

Everything announced at the STRANGER THAN HEAVEN May 2026 showcase

We’ve just gotten our best look yet at STRANGER THAN HEAVEN, the next upcoming game from RGG Studio and a pseudo-prequel story to the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series. Clocking in at over 30 minutes, a special, dedicated showcase for the game presented by Xbox aired today, and lifted the lid on the game’s story, cast,