Let’s get this out of the way upfront – the Gravastar Mercury V60 Pro is one hell of a strange-looking gaming keyboard. Its Giger-esque frame built from rippling, winding aluminium curves wouldn’t look out of place in Alien, or even some of the Metroid games, and it’s an aesthetic that might instantly write it off […]
Carcosa is a planet rich in an incredibly unique and valuable resource known as Lucenite, and you don’t just discover this sort of thing without sparking a corporate interest. And so we meet Arjun (played by the very handsome and talented Rahul Kohli), an Enforcer with a vastly powerful company by the name of Soltari,
Finding myself in the throes of espionage, war and nonsensical chicanery, I entered Titanium Court, a mere fawn in the headlights. Trapped in this unfamiliar fortress, surrounded by strange folk speaking in an uncanny tongue, my only goal was to escape. This is a game that revels in the bizarre and philosophical. With the menagerie
While gaming is its bread and butter, Razer has spent a while now dabbling in the productivity market, and more recently started introducing “ergonomic” takes on its range. This time around, it’s the Razer Pro Type Ergo, a 100% format keyboard that takes a stab at a market that hasn’t really been touched by a
Some minor spoilers from early in Exit 8 follow. In the world of popular video games turned into films, there are some broad categories that projects tend to fall into. For properties already rich in story and lore, or with a beloved existing plot, it’s often a case of taking those ideas and squishing them
PowerWash Simulator constitutes a fairly big chunk of my video game playtime in recent years. Not because there’s a huge amount of replay value in it – though there’s nothing wrong with jumping back in for a bit of zen cleaning time while I ignore my real-world duties – but because it sported a long
There are few times where I’d find myself encouraging of a game developer, especially one that’s built a reputation on delivering creative, unique experiences with each subsequent game, to go straight into a sequel off the back of a hit. It is inevitable, however, and in the case of Supergiant Games and Hades II, I
AI is bad. Humans are an expandable impedance to progress. You are the last guy, tasked with exposing and eliminating whatever rogue system has kicked off the end of life as we know it. This is charted territory in fiction, a cautionary tale repeated over decades. But few masters of doomsday sci-fi possessed the kind
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a delight of a game – possibly the best 2D platformer in the series since the SNES era brought us Super Mario World and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island – so any excuse to go back to it is welcome. With such a superb game at its core, an
When we talk about musical video games there are a few possible things that can be in discussion. There are games driven purely by music, Guitar Hero and Beat Saber are good examples, or there are games with a strong musical theme, like Hi-Fi Rush and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Music. Keep looking, and you’ll
I try my best not to spend too much time comparing one game to another in the context of a review. It tends to get in the way of looking at the game in front of me and assessing it for what it is. But in the case of Beyond Words – a game you
Seeing the title revealed for the first time. Watching those early trailers. Finding out about Donald Glover’s Yoshi casting. Laughing about and then spending AUD $45 on a novelty popcorn bucket that I’ll never put popcorn in. Glen Powell is playing who? These are the things that will stick with me about The Super Mario
South of Midnight has been on my radar since long before it launched for the first time in April last year, but waiting and hoping for it to appear on the platforms appropriate to me has paid off with the game now launching on PlayStation 5 and Switch 2. Having now finally played though the
I’ve been a longtime enjoy of the kind of moody, often satirical, never quite family-friendly breed of 2.5D platformer currently exhibited by the likes of Inside and Little Nightmares, but stretching as far back as something like Abe‘s Odyssey. The kind of game that’s good for a one-and-done weekend playthrough and asks for very little
I feel as if I’m in the minority here, but the Talking Flowers are easily one of my favourite new things to have come out of 2023’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder. There’s something about the disparity between their cutesy, Nintendo-coded look and incredibly straightforward line delivery that really tickles me. In a game where pretty
Now, I’ve never been much of a car person, or into motorsports at all. But I have watched enough Initial D and spent enough time in Tokyo arcades or playing golden-era Need for Speed for Screamer to speak to me. A return from Milestone to its own 90s arcade racing series of the same name,
Crimson Desert is out this week on Friday, March 20 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and the reviews have begun rolling in. As it currently stands, the game is sitting on a pretty healthy aggregated score of 78 on Metacritic. While we don’t have a review up for this one (we’re still a new site!), it’s clear based on
In the mainline Pokémon games, you are a consumer. The world exists for you to put your feet onto every inch and the Pokémon that inhabit it are your livestock to feed, water and sic on each other in the name of sport In Pokémon Pokopia, you are a custodian. Each new area in this
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is out this week on Friday, March 13 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC, and the reviews have begun rolling in. While we don’t have a review up for this one (we’re still a new site!), there’s plenty of reason to feel optimistic about this one given how glowing
Pokémon Pokopia is finally out this week on Thursday, March 5 exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2, and the reviews have begun rolling in. While we’re not quite ready to publish our review yet thanks to code coming through after embargo (we’re still a new site!), there’s plenty of reason to feel optimistic about this one
Resident Evil is 30 years old, this year. And in that time the series has gone through a number of reinventions as it kept up with trends, tried new ideas and ultimately sought to hold true to the spirit of what had us all staying up into the darkest hours, attempting to play our PlayStations
It was a surprise announcement at the most recent PlayStation State of Play – the Greek era of God of War is coming back with a full trilogy remake on the way. And while that’s something for the far future, the present was also taken care of in the form of a shadow-dropped new title,
Mario and friends have a knack for spinning real-world sports into accessible, pick-up-and-play videogame experiences that can light up a loungeroom and offer something even to the least sports-minded players. I am one of those people, and Mario Tennis Fever achieves that perfectly appealing mashup of technique and chaos with just one new feature –
