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Few characters can manage a personal reinvention like Jordan Mechner’s Prince of Persia. From his dungeon diving, princess saving early days to his emergence as a brash, cheeky parkour artist with a control of the forces of time that Doctor Who would be proud of, to impressive modern returns to...
There wasn’t a single second playing Drag x Drive in its pre-release window that I wasn’t thinking about Rematch. So, please indulge me for a moment while I talk about Rematch instead of Drag x Drive.
Ahhh, Sicily. Rolling hills, rich wines, and the dry heat of the scirocco tumble together to form a slice of Mediterranean paradise. It’s both the birthplace of the Casa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, and home to one of the world’s most famous active volcanoes – Etna. It’s here that the...
One of the first games that I can truly remember playing and enjoying as a kid was Police Quest 2 The Vengeance. I was terrible at it and I daresay some of its larger themes flew right over my head, but it nevertheless made me enamoured with the idea of being...
Super Mario Party Jamboree arrived late in the original Switch’s life, rekindling our love for chaotic, competitive multiplayer with a couple of Joy-Con split in half and passed around four players. While Switch 2 has continued Nintendo’s multiplayer focus with Mario Kart World, nothing sparks neighbourhood noise complaints quite like...
When the Switch 2 was finally announced, there was plenty of debate over what games we might see in its first year. With how many times and ways the recent Donkey Kong Country Returns games have been released, I certainly wasn’t expecting Donkey Kong Bananza as one of the first...
2012’s Far Cry 3 is undoubtedly one of the most influential games of the HD era. It wasn’t the first open-world action game of course, but its enormous critical and commercial success quickly made it the blueprint for just about any and every such release that followed.
Atlus is a Japanese studio that is practically bursting at the seams with RPGs, and their lineages are all interwoven. Branching out from the core Megami Tensei series – games like 2024’s Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance – are subseries like the well-known Persona franchise, as well as more underground...
Despite a general feeling that Remedy can do no wrong, I walked out of a hands-on FBC Firebreak preview last month year just a tad concerned. Paired with two other journos from (quite literally) halfway around the world, my experience was incredibly laggy; I admittedly didn’t help matters by playing via...
The Alters
Full disclosure here: I’ve had some of the worst weeks of my career at my day job, and as a result my mental health is shockingly unwell. This meant that The Alters came at both the worst and the best time.
Mario Kart World is out now, and Stevivor’s got a head start on our review thanks to hours of hands-on time provided by Nintendo Australia.
I’m firmly in camp FromSoftware, but I’ve had an interesting journey in getting there. I’ve always appreciated the likes of Dark Souls and Bloodborne — as my latter review can attest to — but there was a time when the very gameplay loop that’s now formed the core of the Soulslike genre wasn’t my cup...
