Elfcat Studio has officially revealed Buru and the Old People, a narrative adventure game about a down-on-his-luck white ibis (aka the humble Bin Chicken) returning to his former life as a thief in the seaside town of Pincher’s Cove for one final score. The Australian studio, which comprises Indigenous peoples in all key creative roles […]
CloverPit, the hit slot-machine-horror-roguelite (yes, that’s where we’re at with this) is finally making its way to the few remaining platforms it was yet to grace – namely the PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Having already amassed over five million players across PC, Xbox and mobile since it launched just last year, CloverPit
Video games can provide any number of ways for a person to relax, unwind, chill out and, if for only a little while, escape to somewhere else. And the desire to find this feeling has manifested itself in many ways and wildly different offerings. Some find that escapism in epic fantasy RPGs, some in blockbuster
Pro Jank Footy, the video game that is poised to bring Australia’s great sport to the wider world in the most misrepresentative way possible, has finally set a date for kick-off (Is that an AFL term? Sorry). It’ll launch on August 13 AEST (August 12 for most of our friends across the pond) for PS5,
A lot of the messaging around Denshattack! has gone to some effort to align the game with a lot of iconic 2000s extreme sports titles, throwing around hooks like “Tony Hawk with trains,” but it also bears a lot of comparison to the Jet Set Radio games. Not only in the obvious ways, like its
D-topia imagines a world where humanity has long since hit its lowest lows, the kind required to prompt a bold new direction for the future. That new direction is the Utopia Project, created to bring “The greatest happiness to the greatest number of people” by leveraging AI, genetic engineering, synthetic environments and social algorithms, and
Developer doinksoft has made something of a habit of crafting highly reminiscent games that, upon further inspection, reveal themselves to be sparkling with personality and hinged on just one or two potent quirks. With Gato Roboto it was mixing vehicular action with precision platforming in a cat-driven mech suit, while Gunbrella had the courage to
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
